Grammarly和ChatGPT正推动英语向更简洁方向演变。
Can Grammarly and ChatGPT accelerate language change? AI-powered technologies and their impact on the English language: wordiness vs. conciseness
- 分析目的从句'for the purpose of'的简化建议，揭示AI工具偏好简练表达
- 即使原句语法正确且来自真实语料，仍被推荐缩短为更简洁形式
- 这类AI工具不仅是语言变化的反映，更可能加速语言演化
随着NLP驱动的语言技术、基于AI的自然语言生成模型以及英语作为母语与非母语者通用交流媒介的普及，这些AI工具的输出对语言学家极具吸引力。本文研究Grammarly和ChatGPT对英语语言中冗余与简洁性的影响。以目的从句'for the purpose of'为例，展示两者均倾向于推荐比原文更简短的语法结构，即便原始句子由母语者撰写、语法完全正确，且出自当代英语语料库。研究表明，此类工具不仅反映语言变化趋势，更可能主动促进或加速这一过程。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The proliferation of NLP-powered language technologies, AI-based natural language generation models, and English as a mainstream means of communication among both native and non-native speakers make the output of AI-powered tools especially intriguing to linguists. This paper investigates how Grammarly and ChatGPT affect the English language regarding wordiness vs. conciseness. A case study focusing on the purpose subordinator in order to is presented to illustrate the way in which Grammarly and ChatGPT recommend shorter grammatical structures instead of longer and more elaborate ones. Although the analysed sentences were produced by native speakers, are perfectly correct, and were extracted from a language corpus of contemporary English, both Grammarly and ChatGPT suggest more conciseness and less verbosity, even for relatively short sentences. The present article argues that technologies such as Grammarly not only mirror language change but also have the potential to facilitate or accelerate it.
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