LIGN 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mexican Spanish, Mayan Languages, Social Class
16 May 2017
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Communication: the more often speakers communicate, the more likely linguistics changes will spread out. Contact: closer physical proximity affects how easily linguistic changes spread. Sociolects are an example of how lack of communication inhibits linguistic change. The closer you are to the center of the change, the more likely you are to be affected by this change. Problem: doesn"t account for amount of communication. Change will propagate from big centers first and then trickle down to rural areas and vice versa if the change begins in a rural areas first. Change doesn"t spread evenly, it spreads to people with similar socioeconomic status first. The bigger the city, the greater the influence. Problem: how do we define the size of the city. Dialects of mexican spanish based on phonological variation. The isoglosses are drawn based off of consonants not vowels because there are very few vowels so very little shift. Most spanish vowels bleed into each other.
