LING 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Discourse Marker, Canadian English, Quebec English
20 Feb 2018
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Class xi: february 12th 2018; canadian english language. Today: more on discourse marker "eh?, studying language change, lexical changes in progress in canadian english. In many cases, paradigms appear to be in the middle of undergoing changes. Language change real vs apparent time: real time, study a change in the community by observing speech at intervals in time, e. g. every ten years, fairly rare because of impracticality. Individual speakers change over their lifetimes at the same time as the community changes over time: communal change. Individual speakers increase the frequency of an incoming form across their lifespan (even after childhood: at same time there is an increase in frequency across the community, suggests the apparent-time construct underestimates changes in progress. In stable variation, women tend to use more of standard variant than men. In change in progress, women tend to adopt changes before men. Important to understand social context of language change.
