LIGN 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Longitudinal Study, Southern American English, Monophthong
16 May 2017
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The change is most apparent in the youngest generation. The youngest group may be using discord market like infrequently because the people they are being exposed to are the older cohort. The two younger cohorts will eventually start to resemble each other. Looking across different age groups at the same moment of the time. An apparent-time analysis may actually underestimate the rate of change, if individual speakers actually change in the direction of the community as they age. You"ll get representative individuals from a social group. The sample may change and be different at different points of time. You have to follow the same people for a long time. A lot of people may drop out of the study. A merger in vowels is irreversible in linguistic means. Hard to categorize things between two merged vowels. Usually some triggering event opens a hole in the vowel space:
