atw: Article: The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words

  • From: Stuart Burnfield <slb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Austechwriter <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:10:42 +0800 (WST)

"Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded
linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test
this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google's
massive collection of scanned books. They claim to have identified
universal laws governing the birth, life course and death of words."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285610212146258.html
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