Accessibility and Historical Change: An Emergent Cluster Led Uncles and Aunts to Become Aunts and Uncles
Abstract
There are times when a curiously odd relic of language presents us with a thread, which when pulled, reveals deep and general facts about human language. This paper unspools such a case. Prior to 1930, English speakers uniformly preferred male-before-female word order in conjoined nouns such as uncles and aunts; nephews and nieces; men and women . Since then, at least a half dozen items have systematically reversed their preferred order (e.g.,...
Paper Details
Title
Accessibility and Historical Change: An Emergent Cluster Led Uncles and Aunts to Become Aunts and Uncles
Published Date
May 26, 2021
Journal
Volume
12
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