Random Fluctuation/Cultural Transmission and Substratum theories
- Created by: Caitriona Doherty
- Created on: 28-03-14 10:48
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Random Fluctuation and Cultural Transmission
- In this model, language changes owing to its instability
- Rather than progress or decay, this theory sees the changes in language as responses to the ever-changing context of language use and its users
- These contextual factors may be understood as more or less random
- E.g. years of unseasonably warm weather
- The linguistic changes that follow, though fitting, are random
- For a while…
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