{"id":3630,"date":"2013-01-31T23:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2013-01-31T23:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:56:36","slug":"paper-social-structure-and-language-structure-the-new-nomothetic-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2013\/01\/paper-social-structure-and-language-structure-the-new-nomothetic-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper: Social Structure and Language Structure: the New Nomothetic Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Social-Structure-and-Language-Structure-the-New-Nomothetic-Approach.pdf\">Social Structure and Language Structure the New Nomothetic Approach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>found via <em>Gene Expression<\/em>, http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/01\/a-correlation-between-acacia-trees-and-tonal-languages\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Recent studies have taken advantage of newly available, large-scale, cross-linguistic data and <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">new statistical techniques to look at the relationship between language structure and social <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">structure. These \u2018nomothetic\u2019 approaches contrast with more traditional approaches and a <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">tension is observed between proponents of each method. We review some nomothetic studies <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">and point out some challenges that must be overcome. However, we argue that nomothetic <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">approaches can contribute to our understanding of the links between social structure and <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">language structure if they address these challenges and are taken as part of a body of mutu-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">ally supporting evidence. Nomothetic studies are a powerful tool for generating hypotheses <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">that can go on to be corroborated and tested with experimental and theoretical approaches. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">These studies are highlighting the effect of interaction on language.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Key words: nomothetic, social structure, complex adaptive systems, linguistic niche hypoth-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">esis, cultural evolution<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Structure and Language Structure the New Nomothetic Approach found via Gene Expression, http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2013\/01\/a-correlation-between-acacia-trees-and-tonal-languages\/ Recent studies have taken advantage of newly available, large-scale, cross-linguistic data and new statistical techniques to look at the relationship between language structure and social structure. These \u2018nomothetic\u2019 approaches contrast with more traditional approaches and a tension is observed between proponents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguisticslanguage","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}