LING 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Great Vowel Shift, Early Modern English, Language Change
19 Jan 2018
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Class iv: january 17th 2018; origins of development of. If 2 communities of speakers of a variety fall out of contact, their varieties will usually evolve in different ways. Language change: 2 opposing tendencies: centripetal forces/conservative forces, act to maintain unity of different dialects of the same language, related to standardisation, prescriptivism, Idea of the family tree model, language spreads through linguistic descent. In this change, children acquire language from parents and thus replicate the language of their parents. Then mode language for their own children: diffusion: language can spread from one variety to another even if they aren"t related to each other. Contact between varieties can lead to language change. E. g. diffusion of r-lessens from british english to new york city: drift: e. g flapping in canadian and australian english. Going through same change, but it was an accident. Australians flap in places canadians don"t like in 19 and 14.
