How Language Can Change Over Time...

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 Many individuals have a different language they speak or they speak a language and it changes over time. Language is always changing, many individuals have seen that language changes across space and across social groups. Language also varies across time. Generation by generation, pronunciations evolve, new words are borrowed and invented.  Many individuals ask why language changes? There are many different routes to language change. Changes can take originate in language learning, or through language contact, social differentiation, and natural processes in usage. With language learning, language is transformed as it transmitted from one generation to the next. Language contact is important as well like migration, which conquests and trade and bring speakers of one language which there is many languages, into contact with speakers of another language. Some individuals will become fully bilingual as children, while others learn a second language more or less well as adults.

 Social differentiation, social groups adopt distinctive norm of dress, adornment, gesture and so forth, language is part of the package. Linguistic which is related to language, which can be achieved through vocabulary (slang), pronunciation etc. The natural processes in usage is rapid or casual speech naturally produces process such as assimilation, dissimulation, syncope, and apocope. The meaning of assimilation is the process of taking in, dissimulation is concealment of ones thoughts, feelings etc. syncope is sounds or letters within a word, and apocope is the loss of sound or sounds that end of a word. Basically, by listing these names they are very important with language. Also, language changes because of new technologies, new products, new experiences require new words to refer them clearly and efficiently.

 Another reason for change is that no two people have had the same language experience. Many of the changes that occur in language begin with teens and young adults. As young people interact with others their own age, their language grows to include words, phrases, and constructions that are different from those of the older generation. We get new words from different places, and we also borrow them from other languages. We create them by shortening longer words or combining words etc. How language changes over time is pretty interesting to know about and very important, especially to know about it now in the present time. All through out the world individuals speak differently than others so its good to be informed by how language eventually changes over time.





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  1. UnknownMarch 30, 2018 at 8:12 PM

    One thing that would have helped you was to link to some words that have changed over time. Either in spelling or pronunciation; just to list some examples, if nothing else. I do like how you explained reasons and specifically how language can change over time, it adds more sense that you've really researched into this topic.

    Although the last link, "Is English Changing?" seems like an oddity of itself. Everyone, especially college students, should be able to see that it has. If I'm not mistaken, we've all had to read something by William Shakespeare by now. Almost every time, especially in Hamlet, they had to translate the Old English to "Modern" English. That alone should be a pretty good indication that English - and likely all languages - evolve and change over long periods of time.

    I think if you expand on this a little more, maybe add in a few more sources, this Blog would be an excellent read and earn you an excellent grade.

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  2. Julie Quinn TACApril 1, 2018 at 5:28 AM

    I appreciate the borrowing from the Linguistic Society of America; they're in the "know" when it comes to language changes. I think everyone can agree that language changes; to what extent and why (which factors have the most influence), that can continue to be studied. What's missing here in this post is contextualization. Where are the examples? I'd like to see this situation drawn out in detail; examples tend to be the drivers of persuasion...

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