Charles Hockett

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Last updated 8:45 AM on 1/9/23
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Charles Hockett came up with what theory?
Random fluctuation theory ( RFT)
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what does RFT stand for?
random events and errors lead to language change
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Charles Hockett believes that language change results from what?
contextual factors
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‘book’ synonymous with ‘cool’
because predictive text autocorrects it to book
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‘pease’ referred to a single pea in middle English but
people accidentally referred to it as one so ‘pea’ is a single pea in our lexicon