Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs; Semenuks, Arturs (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-27)
It is often claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to become morphologically simpler, presumably because non-native speakers learn the language imperfectly. A growing number of studies support this claim, but there is a dearth of experiments that evaluate it and the suggested explanatory mechanisms. We performed a large-scale experiment which directly tested whether imperfect ...