ENG 4339 Lecture 13: english-language-1
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Morphology and pronunciation are the two basic aspects on which english language develops. American english in terms of pronunciation is more traditional because that it used to be proper british english in the early modern period, so in 16th century. In the american english the intervocalic "t" becomes th", instead in the british english the "t" is alveolar (city). The indo-european language family crosses all over america, reaches europe, part of russia and it goes down to australia (leaves out finland). The indo-european family of languages was born in the black sea (turkey historically important as a crossed path of a number of civilizations). The time when this family languages born (go back thousand and thousand of years, before christian era, this family of languages were many and so diversi ed, but although they were so many they had the same root. The populations who belonged to the same ethnic indo-
