CMD 493 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tok Pisin, Decreolization, African American Vernacular English
21 Feb 2017
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One way that language change happens is when speakers of. Different languages come into contact with one another: background information (adapted from romaine, 1989; inglehart & woodard, Approximately 50% of the world"s population is bilingual and bilingualism exists. Most of the world"s speech communities use more than one language. It is monolingualism that represents the special case. There are about 30 times as: speakers select different languages or varieties for use depending upon the social context since not all varieties are considered equally appropriate to all situations. Indeed, if people used both languages equally in all situations, there would be no reason for the separate languages to exist. "kio ke six, seven hours te school de vic spend karde ne, they are speaking english all. Translation: "because they spend six or seven hours a day at school, they are speaking.
