LIN 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Hawaiian Language, Sign Language, Dementia
25 Oct 2018
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Stable variation: bell curve (kids, teens, young adult, middle adult, older adult) Q1 is a change in progress (or stable variation w/reason), but not both (however, Kids and older adults more standard you can"t really tell) Change from above--aware/below--not aware of change can only be in change in progress, not stable variation. Every society speaks at least one language. Users shift to using a different language. There is no such thing as an inherently dominant language. A language that is powerful in one place may be endangered somewhere else (and vice versa) Many language-speakers value their language (linguists too!) A loss in linguistic diversity represents a loss in available data. For a native speaker, preserving a language has many benefits: Less likely to experience early onset of dementia. For a time, there was generalizations of language. People believed there was a constraint in language, but there"s not. Linguists should cover the full range of linguistic diversity.
