Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Situation Two, Tok Pisin, Language Convergence

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Lng 1028 week 3 part 2: contact languages. 3 distinct outcomes of highly intensive language contact: language convergence. Two languages can become more similar: language shift. A speech community begins speaking another language close to them. Two languages come into contact and language shift is a function of one population shifting over to the next. E. g. moving to quebec would likely influence an english speaker to begin using french: language death. There are no more speakers in a particular language. Languages that don"t get support because of contact with other languages are at risk of language death. Native language (l1) interference: second-language acquisition. Natural setting: adults learn the language of their new home through interaction rather than formal training: transfer/substratum influence. The use of patterns (phonological, morphological, lexical or syntactic) from ones" native language while speaking a second language. Content words (nouns, verbs) are borrowed and adapted. Function words (prepositions, article) are from a matrix language.