Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language … general equilibrium implications of domestic language proximity, we simulate the repeal of Quebec’s Bill 101, which made … French an official language in Canada and established fundamental language rights for French-speakers. The analysis …

temporal side of the different processes interacting to produce a change in the structure of the language. That is, the rate of … import and dissipation of new elements is seen in relation to the rate at which a language absorbs such new elements into its … how the structural type of a language might influence its rate of adaptation of the external innovations and how the …

Social norms, though often implicit, are to a great extent communicated and made salient using natural language. They …