LING 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Vowel Diagram, Great Vowel Shift, Proto-Indo-European Language
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All living languages change with time (rather slowly compared to the human life span) Many language changes are revealed in written records. Stages of english > division is somewhat arbitrary (marked by important dates in history that profoundly influenced the english language) Historical and comparative linguistics : the branch of linguistics that deals with how languages change, what kinds of changes occur, and why they occurred. Historical > deals with the history of particular languages. Comparative > deals with relations among languages. Changes in a language = changes in the grammars and the lexicon of speakers (that are perpetuated as new generations of children acquire the altered language and make further changes) Phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic components may be affected. Sound correspondence : comparison of linguistic features between two dialects. Example: [a ] vs. [a:] > words like . A = words pronounced with diphthong [a ] in non-southern english.
