LIN 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Floppy Disk, Idiolect, Mutual Intelligibility
4 Oct 2016
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Reconstructing proto-romance : cognates, look for words that are similar in different languages that aren"t borrowed. They evolved from the same language: systematizations, plausibility. P to v, or, p to b, or, b to p: determining change. For example; lots of borrowing of technology words from english because they are developed somewhere in that language. French and english, (what english would like to remove, for example; approach (eng) vs. way (frn) No two speakers of a language speak exactly the same way and no individual speaker speaks the same way all the time, causing variation to exist within a language. This is called idiolect (our own personal language) There are not as many languages as here are people, so we define them in terms of mutual intelligibility. Basics resemble other people in order to communicate and understand each other. Language is one more specific dialect chosen among the varieties shared by a speech community.
