1992
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William Labov, « La transmission des changements linguistiques », Langages, ID : 10.3406/lgge.1992.1648
This paper deals with the sociolinguistic problem of the spread of changes accross the speech community, with questions like : what are the relationships between internal and social factors within this process ?, how and to what extent, are social forces able to determine the evolution of the structure ? why are women in advance of men for phonetic changes ? how much can social networks modify a language ? how does transmission operate ?