Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Michif Language, Wasabi, Sprachbund

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

Document Summary

A whole range of other phenomena can happen when speakers of different languages meet and move toward bilingualism. Populations coming in contact with one another but they don"t necessarily share the same language. Prestige of the speakers: abstratum languages: equal prestige between both parties. Equally used: superstartum language: the language of the dominant group, substratum language: the language of the less dominant group (ex. 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 one"s native language while speaking a second language. Outcomes of language contact: language convergence. When two languages become more similar due to contact between them. The balkan sprachbund: albanian, macedonian, greek, romanian, etc: language shift. A shift by a group of speakers towards another language, abandoning their native language.