LING 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Early Modern English, Phoneme, Wave Model
18 Feb 2017
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Traditional: historical linguist look at changes that are completed and that occurred in the past. Sociolinguistic approaches: look at changes as they occur. Universal phenomenon: all languages change over time languages that do not change are dead languages. Disglossia: french was the language of administration and the upper class. Lower class spoke english there was transfer of some of the romance language (french) into english. Luther personal relationship with god not through a median (priest) lead to the expansion of the use of english. French was no longer being used in court. Universities still used latin but beginning to change you = formal singular thou = informal plural verbal conjugation form. Changes over time effect the vocabulary, and phoneme. Contact can explain transfer of a language, so how can we tell what jones observed is not transfer? the list of words jones created saw similarities in basic everyday words (transfer does not include these words )
