Causes of Language Change
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- Created on: 18-01-15 13:00
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- Causes of Language Change
- Regularization
- occurs when we change language in order to make it more consistent
- people look for rules and patterns in language that we use and will often change words or constructions if they seem odd or different
- known as analogy, and can affect all areas of language
- Influence of other languages
- contact with other languages often brings about language chnage
- this may be due to military invasion, immigration, trading links, cultural products
- contact is especially likely to influence vocabulary
- Social influences
- changes are more likey to spread if they are considered to have social presitge
- the movement of people from one part of the country to another helps changes to spread
- changing attitudes can cause certain words and expressions to become less popular and other to become more popular
- change in societies circumstances may create a need to express new meanings
- changes may be motivated by the desire for novelty, the wish to be different or fashionable
- Ease of articulation
- omission
- occurs when sounds disappear from words
- assimilation
- omission
- Regularization
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