LING 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Arawakan Languages
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1 dialect > 2 languages when: they are no longer mutually comprehensible: when languages have a single common ancestor > family, prescriptive vs. descriptive: prescriptive statements make judgments that aren"t necessarily true descriptive describes and tries to understand, phonotactic constraints: the restrictions in each english that are put on permissible combinations of sounds. Ipa produces a way of communicating similar sounds in all languages: linguist features of rp and caribbean english, rp: / w/ instead of /o/, and r loss in syllable final position, rp: once had h loss in most words, carib, carib: > d, that > dat, carib: one of the few dialects that still uses pure vowels (doesn"t add o > [ow] > t, think > tink and /e/ > [ej]: classifying languages, english: indo european family, german: indo european family, halkomelem: salish family, arawakan and carib, ewe: niger congo family, changes in germanic from ie: kw > hw quod vs. what.
