论文标题
多维竞争的稳定变化
Stable variation in multidimensional competition
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论文摘要
语言变化的基本定理（Yang，2000年）意味着在变化学习框架中不可能稳定变化，但只有在两个（而不是更多）语法变体竞争的特殊情况下。在引入优势矩阵的概念时，我将变异学习概括为学习者收到由两个以上语法产生的输入的情况，并表明简历稳定的变化是这种多种类型的多种格拉米人系统的内在特征。这邀请实验者认真对待稳定变化的可能性，并确定寻找它的一个可能位置：复杂语言接触的情况。
The Fundamental Theorem of Language Change (Yang, 2000) implies the impossibility of stable variation in the Variational Learning framework, but only in the special case where two, and not more, grammatical variants compete. Introducing the notion of an advantage matrix, I generalize Variational Learning to situations where the learner receives input generated by more than two grammars, and show that diachronically stable variation is an intrinsic feature of several types of such multiple-grammar systems. This invites experimentalists to take the possibility of stable variation seriously and identifies one possible place where to look for it: situations of complex language contact.
