This special issue focuses on the interaction of the disciplines of historical linguistics and psycholinguistics to obtain new insights into which cognitive factors are potentially relevant for language change. The contributions address questions related to the cognitive mechanisms at play, their evidence in historical data, who the agents of change may be, which experimental methods can be implemented to investigate language change, and how language change can be theoretically modeled in terms of cognitive mechanisms. In this introductory article, we first outline our aims by describing the call for papers and the workshop which laid the foundation for this special issue. We then provide a state of the art on the integration of research on cognitive mechanisms and language change before introducing the contributions and listing which of the central questions they address.

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驱动（接触引起的）语言变化的认知机制：特刊简介

本期特刊重点关注历史语言学和心理语言学学科的相互作用，以获得关于哪些认知因素可能与语言变化相关的新见解。这些贡献解决了与起作用的认知机制、历史数据中的证据、变化的推动者可能是谁、可以采用哪些实验方法来研究语言变化以及如何根据认知机制对语言变化进行理论上建模相关的问题。 。在这篇介绍性文章中，我们首先通过描述论文征集和为本期特刊奠定基础的研讨会来概述我们的目标。然后，在介绍贡献并列出它们解决的核心问题之前，我们提供了认知机制和语言变化研究整合的最新技术。