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Voice Change/ Language Change

Jonathan Hsy, Chris Piuma · Punctum Books · 2014

Languages are slippery, and they don't like being con-tained.We have already broken the rules. That was not one hun-dred words. That was far, far less than one hundred words. Each section, we agreed, should consist of one hundred words. That section could have easily been rewritten to con-sist of one hundred words. We have already broken the rules. But. But now I am reminding you all of the rules. And now, in this section, we are being mindful of the rules, the rules that we have created and that we are breaking. We are being mindful of how we are creating them and how we are breaking them

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Language change

Goebel, Zane · Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) · 2021

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Language change

Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018

A clear and up-to-date introduction to linguistics. This best-selling textbook addresses the full scope of language, from the traditional subjects of structural linguistics (relating to sound, form, meaning and language change) to the more specialised subjects of contextual linguistics (including discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language). There are also separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, and first and second language learning. Extensively classroom-tested, this second edition has been revised to further support student learning, with numerous new examples, exercises and textboxes to model and contextualise key concepts. Updated throughout to incorporate contemporary issues and events, it includes worked examples of phonological analyses and multiple examples of a variety of World Englishes. A rich collection of online resources completes the learning package.

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Language change

R. M. W. Dixon · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1994

Particular linguistic changes generally proceed in a single direction. For example, a preposition or postposition may develop into an affix, and a velar or labial stop may lenite to the semi-vowel w (changes in the opposite directions are either unknown or extraordinarily rare). Through a combination of specific changes a language can shift from one typological profile to another. There is nothing unidirectional about changes at this level (see Croft 1990: 229). Any type of language – in terms of any typological parameter – can change into another type, and back again. (If this were not the case all languages would be inexorably moving in a single direction, towards some ‘ultimate’ language typé)

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Language Change

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics · 2014

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Language Change

Bichler, Martin · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2014

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Language Change

Anniversary Conference of English as a Lingua Franca 2017 Helsinki, Mauranen, Anna 1949-, Vetchinnikova, Svetlana ca. 20./21. Jh. · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2020

English as a lingua franca (ELF) has become ubiquitous in today's globalised, mobile and fast-changing world. It is clear that it will have an unprecedented impact not only on how we communicate but also on our understanding of language use and change. What exactly ELF brings to our life and to language theory is a question which requires an interdisciplinary take. This book gathers together leading scholars from world Englishes, typology, language history, cognitive linguistics, translation studies, multilingualism, sociolinguistics and ELF research itself to seek state-of-the-art answers. Chapters present original insights on language change, based on theoretical approaches and empirical studies, and provide clear examples of social, interactional and cognitive changes that ELF instigates. The picture which unfolds on the pages of this book is complex, dynamic and makes a convincing case for the importance of English as a lingua franca on language change at a global scale.

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Language Change

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco Cavallaro · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2023

Languages are constantly changing. The reasons for the changes can be both internal (i.e., when monolingual speakers adopt new ways of saying things according to social factors like age, gender, and class) and external (e.g., language contact). Although toponyms are ‘linguistic fossils’ that tend to retain older linguistic features and can withstand violent population shifts more so than the general lexicon, they are also affected by the process of language change. This is explored through several examples from around the world. It is only through analysing language change – with an approach that incorporates historical-linguistic methodologies like the comparative method and dialectological interpretations – that a toponymist can reconstruct the original (and most remote) toponymic root of a place name. The latter half of the chapter demonstrates how toponyms can be used to ‘crack’ hitherto undeciphered languages, the most notable being Linear B (a syllabic writing system transcribing Mycenaean Greek, an archaic form of Ancient Greek). The authors also apply an experimental methodology, using toponyms, to provide a possible interpretation of place names possibly transcribed through Linear A (the grammatological ancestor of the Linear B writing system).

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Language Change

Peter W. Culicover, Andrzej Nowak · 2003

Abstract A dynamical system is a system that evolves in time. The core of our approach to language acquisition thus far has been to account for changes in the grammatical description of an individual’s linguistic knowledge in terms of the underlying dynamical system that embodies this knowledge. The grammatical description picks out the general properties of the behaviour of this system and reflects, more or less exactly, the organization and structure of the system.

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Language change

Bernard H. Bichakjian · Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory · 1990

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Language Change

Ronald K. S. Macaulay · 2006

Abstract One of the remarkable characteristics of language is the fact that it can be transmitted so effectively from one generation to another over centuries. There are words whose meaning and pronunciation (as far as we can tell) have changed very little over two or maybe three thousand years. They have been preserved, not especially because they have been written down, though that provides some of our knowledge of their existence over the past thousand years or so. They have survived because each generation of children learns the language of the community in which they are growing up. Despite the individual nature of language learning, children grow up to speak in a way that identifies them as members of a speech community, sharing its norms. This can be seen most clearly in the survival of dialect forms (see chapter 13) that are not part of the standard language. The fact that forms which are not normally written down should survive with such persistence over long periods of time is evidence of the successful transmission of community norms. In fact, many dialect forms are conservative or relic forms; it is the standard language that has changed, for combined with stability there is also the possibility of change.

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Language change

Barry J. Blake · 2008

Abstract As mentioned at the beginning of the previous chapter, languages change. Over time every facet of a language can change: the sounds, the morphology, the syntax, the semantics, and the vocabulary. Most readers will be familiar with Shakespeare’s English of 400 years ago (Early Modern English) and realize that the language has changed somewhat over four centuries. Some readers will have been introduced to Chaucer’s fourteenth-century English and realize that it can be a little difficult to understand.

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