Semantic change in adults is not primarily a generational phenomenon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, number 31, August 2025.
Significant work presents a large -scale study of the change of sense of words which is concentrated not only on the way in which meanings change over time, but also on the way in which these changes are adopted by adult speakers of different ages. We analyze more than 7.9 million in the US Congress …