8/8/2019 Language Change[1]

1/5

Theideaoflanguagedegenerationhasnobasisinlinguisticfact.

Changeisanaturalphenomenonofanguage.

LanguageLearningSocialDifferentiation

InventionLanguageContactan Wor

BorrowingSpeakersErrors

8/8/2019 Language Change[1]

2/5

Loss

AdditionsAssimilationsDissimilationsMetathesis(andSpoonerisms)BlendsMalapropismsReanalysis

Occurswhenaspeakerdoesnotfullyenunciateallsyllablesofaword:Temperature temperture

Postpone posponeDoyoulikeit? Youlikeit?

Occurswhensyllablesareaddedtoaword: Athlete athalete

Latin studio scholaSpanish estudio escuelaPortuguese estudo escolaFrench etude ecole

8/8/2019 Language Change[1]

3/5

Occurswhenwordsaresaidfastsothat

a

feature

belonging

to

one

phoneme

is

carriedovertoanother:Tinbox timboxGunboat gumbox Inplace implace

Immense

Immobile

Embrace

Indent

Intent

Occurswithrepeatedsounds(orsimilarsounds)thataredifficulttosaywheninarticulation. Thisleadso

ec ang ng

or

ropp ng

o

e

sound:

Ourtimeisupinfiveminutes.

Ourhourisup./aur/ /ar/

February Febuary

8/8/2019 Language Change[1]

4/5

Occurswhenwholesegmentsare

movedaround

in

an

exchange

rather

thanachange:

ster s aster s

Ask aks

Aspecialformofmetathesisthatoccurswhensoundsareexchangedbetweenwords:Breaka lass blakea rassSpendadollar dendaspollarLetmeshowyoutoyourseat

Letmesewyoutoyoursheet

Occurswhentwowordswithsimilarmeaningsareblendedtogether: Sparcity(scarcity+sparseness)

cur ous

spur ous

+scarc y

Rarelyever(rarely+hardlyever)

Mosteverywhere(mostplaces+almosteverywhere)

Twentysomeodd(twentysome+twentyodd)

8/8/2019 Language Change[1]

5/5

Occurswhenwordsareeitherusedincorrectlyorwordswithdissimilarmeanings

are

blending

together:

risingtohigherplatitudes ofachievement(plateausandaltitudes)

heistheverypineapple ofpoliteness(pinnacle)

helaidprostate ontheground(prostrate)

comparisonsareodorous(odious)

Occurswhenameaningisgiventoamorphemethatwasnotoriginallyintended:

Hamburger(fromHamburg)

, ,

Fishburger

Veggieburger