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The Emergence of Linguistic Form in Time
Linguistic forms are shaped by forces operating on vastly different time scales. Some of these forces
operate directly at the moment of speaking, whereas others accumulate over time in personal and social
memory. Our challenge is to understand how forces with very different time scales mesh together in
the current moment to determine the emergence of linguistic form.