synchronic

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Change and changes
adaptive evolution
adjustment
alteration
anti-evolutionism
be ahead of the curveidiom
evolutionism
flatten
flip-flop
fluctuation
for a change
reconversion
reformation
regime change
reinterpretation
retransformation
unspooling
unsteadily
unsteady
untick
variation

Examples of diachronic

diachronic
The former gives anthropologists' synchronic understanding a diachronic flourish.
If confirmed by studies of other variables, this result could be useful for the study of grammaticization processes in the absence of diachronic evidence.
I think linguists with an interest in diachronic syntax will surely benefit from reading this book.
The results of diachronic change are encoded in the child's mind, due to the temporal limits of the input.
The data for this study come mainly from electronic corpora, both diachronic and synchronic.
The diachronic part gave an analysis of how the polysemy in get arose in terms of various reanalyses and the mechanisms driving them.
As a result, synchronic language structure and diachronic language change reflect psycholinguistic constraints on language processing.
The text of the book concludes with discussion of some sociolinguistic and diachronic issues.
Such a representation translates naturally into a model of diachronic change.
At the time of their writing, there was no explanation for diachronic change within societies other than that provided by race-based evolutionary theory.
Restricted phonological behaviour is also a feature of clicks in diachronic phonology.
From the diachronic point of view, it is therefore to be expected that these words are liable to erosion.
Underphonologisation and diachronic conspiracies will be informative in deciding where to look for them.
A free and fluid instrumental performance, freed from a rigid diachronic axis without damaging the primary importance of perception.
In sum, we have seen how diachronic bleaching results in synchronic layering in the same functional domain.
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