Accessibility and Historical Change: An Emergent Cluster Led Uncles and Aunts to Become Aunts and Uncles
There are times when a curiously odd relic of language presents us with a thread, which when pulled, reveals deep and general facts about human language. This paper unspools such a case. Prior to 1930, English speakers uniformly preferred male-before-female word order in conjoined nouns such as uncl...
Main Authors: | Adele E. Goldberg, Crystal Lee |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662884/full |
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