Tina Tang coauthored the 2007 study relating historical changes in English irregular verbs to word frequency. Its byline identifies the author with Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.[ref]
Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language by Erez Lieberman and others. Byline and affiliations
The authors found an approximate square-root relation between frequency and irregular-verb half-life. A hundredfold increase in frequency corresponds to a tenfold increase in half-life under that fitted relation. It describes a statistical pattern across the studied verbs, rather than a schedule for when an individual verb must change.[ref]
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