One proposed mechanism of language change concerns the role played by second-language (L2) learners in situations contact. If sufficiently many L2 speakers are present a speech community relation to number first-language (L1) speakers, then those features which difficulty acquisition may be prone disappearing from language. This paper presents mathematical account such contact based on stochast...

Diachronic change of prosodic structures, as it is encountered for instance in the history stress systems, has been described a slow process involving series minimal changes language’s grammar (Lahiri, 2015). We show that grammatical structures observed well domain name truncation (e.g. Italian hypocoristic formation: Francesca > France), where diachronic fast and therefore analyzable real t...