LIN 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Language Shift, Machine Translation, Eliza

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 3010
• Professor: Wulff Steffi

Document Summary

Levels of borrowing: borrowing: adoption by one language of linguistic elements from another language. Lexical borrowings referred to as loan words or loans. The pronunciation of loans is typically adapted to the target language: calques: when whole phrases are borrowed, and translated morpheme-by-morpheme into the target language, phonological borrowing: occurs when a language adopts new sounds/phonological rules from another language. They often trigger phonological borrowings: morphological borrowing: the adoption of morphological elements or patterns by one language from another, syntactic borrowing: ordering requirements of surface elements in one language are borrowed into another language. Language convergence: when speakers of two astragal languages engage in extensive long-term contact, the languages become more similar overall. Language shift: in prolonged extensive contact b/t languages with unequal prestige, speakers of the substratal language will gradually abandon their native language in favor of the more prestigious language. Creole languages: develop from pidgins or pre-pidgins.