Lesson 9: Language change (1)
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Language change
Changes in the lexicon as well as the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic components of the grammar
Categories of language change
Languages change rather slowly compared to the human life span; Changes in a language are changes in the grammars of the speakers of the language, and are perpetuated when new generations of children learn the language by acquiring the new grammar; Temporal variation: All living languages change with time. Old (449-1100 CE), Middle (1100-1500), Modern (1500-present)
Sound change
The sound correspondences between dialects are regular sound correspondences
Scope of the sound change
The regular correspondences between older and modern forms of a language are due to phonological changes that affect certain sounds, or classes of sounds, rather than individual words
Protolanguage
the ancestral language from which related languages have developed.
