LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Great Vowel Shift, Critical Period Hypothesis, Language Change
3 Feb 2015
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What is social explanation for why adolescents are movers/shakers: break away from parents to form new identity give example from change from below (unconscious, below social awareness, no prestige connotations, eg nze beer/bear. May be remnants of older patterns that"ve persisted for centuries: eg walking (n) & walkin (v) all lin changes originate in speech therefore is hard to reconstruct older stages of a language, eg before 19/20th cent. 1600 ~70% of men were semi/literate. much lower for women language of lwc nearly unreachable. Working principles: regularity principle, principle of continual internal renewal (all languages are changing, genetic relationship principle (eg fr related to portuguese, can compare & construct. Parent language latin: uniformitarian principle (lin forces/factors today are like & relevant to those of the past, tho the relations are not the same) All levels of lin language can change.
