How Optimal Is the Optimization Model?

Autor/in	Heine, Bernd
Titel	How Optimal Is the Optimization Model?
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16 (2013) 4, S.743-745 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728913000266
Schlagwörter	Generalization; Bilingualism; Linguistic Theory; Social Environment; Models; Sociolinguistics; Language Variation; Cultural Context + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Linguistische Theorie; Soziales Umfeld; Analogiemodell; Soziolinguistik; Sprachenvielfalt
Abstract	Pieter Muysken's article on modeling and interpreting language contact phenomena constitutes an important contribution.The approach chosen is a top-down one, building on the author's extensive knowledge of all matters relating to language contact. The paper aims at integrating a wide range of factors and levels of social, cognitive, and linguistic accounts, incorporating findings on bilingual individuals in the same way as on language systems in contact and bilingual speech communities. It enables the reader to place seemingly disparate phenomena in a wider perspective and to relate quite divergent manifestations of language contact to one another in a principled way. In accordance with its ambitious goal, the paper proposes a high level of generalization, or abstraction. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10