EN372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Death Bell, Back-Formation, Monastery
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Extreme language mixture: creole and middle english norman conquest, development of pigeons- people who don"t share language features will try to communicate with one another. Language death- quick (murder or suicide: import features until theirs is unrecognizable- suicide, celtic languages murdered bc they were supplanted. Vocal fry - fluttering vocal chords valley girl voice transformed. Vocal fry seen as more popular and seen as innovative (think kardashians). Trendy linguistic pronunciation: also used for a purpose in one language. Assimilation- a sounds becomes similar to an adjacent sound motivated by ease of articulation (full or partial). Add band to house, we get husband or ing to goose we get gosling. Dissimilation- a sound become dissimilar to an adjacent sound perceptual clarity. Loss of a sound- loss of initial vowels (opossum => possum) (nama => name) Metathesis- reversal or reordering of two sounds. Other types- sound merges: phonemicization, labialization, velarization, palatalization*, voicing or devoicing.
