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1.Lexical and Vocabulary Changes

2. Phonetic and Phonological Changes

3. Spelling Changes

4. Semantic Changes

5. Syntatic Changes

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The Power of Words   A girl Changed a BLIND man Day Amazing

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“THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES   ON LANGUAGE CHANGE IN A MALAYSIAN CONTEXT”

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“THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES   ON LANGUAGE CHANGE IN A MALAYSIAN CONTEXT”

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PROFESOR HAZADIAH BT. MOHAMAD DAHAN

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Linguistic evolution: how and why languages change

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Linguistic evolution: how and why languages change

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Linguistic evolution: how and why languages change

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An introductory lecture on the causes of language change. Some parts adapted from Trask, R. L. & R. M. Millar (2007) Trasks Historical Linguistics. London: Hodder Arnold.

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www.todayifoundout.com

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Embed This Infographic Source: Today I found out

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Dr. Guy Deutscher

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An Interview of

Dr. Guy Deutscher, is a professor with the Department of Languages and Cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia at the University of Leiden in Holland. Dr. Deutscher is the author of a number of scholarly articles and the highly acclaimed book: "The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention". The Unfolding of Language won the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form (2006), administered by the The Media Ecology Association.

The Unfolding of Language is a stimulating, informative and immensely readable account of language change and evolution, which will appeal both to the professional linguist and to those interested in understanding more about why language is the way it is. - From the Book Review in AMERICAN SCIENTIST (Jan-Feb 2006 issue)

Of all the characteristics that differentiate us from the other animals, I think most people would agree, quite instinctively even, that language is the fundamental thing that makes us qualitatively different. - In the Beginning Was the Word

In Greek, or Latin, for example, once you could view the letters, you could read, you could get the sound. For Greek and Latin, there was almost a perfect match, and what happens in English today is there's still the pretension that it's a system representing sounds, but in fact, it isn't the case anymore. - Unique Processing Challenge

Note: Remember to click on any word on this page to experience the next evolutionary step in technology supported reading.

The following transcript has not been edited for journal or magazine publication (see ' Interview Notes' for more details). Bold is used to emphasize our [Children of the Code] sense of the importance of what is being said and does not necessarily reflect gestures or tones of emphasis that occurred during the interview.

Unique Processing Challenge:

David Boulton: What seems interesting to me is that the original writing systems developed and adapted, at least the alphabetic ones, in environments where the spoken language had phonemes roughly correspondent in number to the number of alphabet characters in use. Yet, since then the correspondence has broken down and the kinds of processing challenges associated with processing an alphabet and sound system that doesn't have an approximate match represents a unique class of processing challenge never before experienced by human beings.

Dr. Guy Deutscher: That might well be the case, in that what happens here is unusual, because the writing system pretends to represent sounds, whereas, in fact, it doesn't. There were previous writing systems, which were very difficult, but, at least they did not pretend to represent sounds.

David Boulton: Partly. There's a quote from Plato, in The Republic, where he says, once we knew the letters of the alphabet; we could read. There's a difference between seeing a letter, articulating its sound, blending it with the next letter in this kind of pitching machine like automation that results in intelligible, recognizable, speech stream, and processing today's letters which are more like place-holders for variable fields that change what their sounds are depending upon letters far away from them.

Dr. Guy Deutscher: Yes, I think that's more or less what I meant, in the sense that in Greek, or Latin, for example, once you could view the letters, you could read, you could get the sound. For Greek and Latin, there was almost a perfect match, and what happens in English today is there's still the pretension that it's a system representing sounds, but in fact, it isn't the case anymore.

David Boulton: It isn't. And, yet, for children coming up into it...

Dr. Guy Deutscher: They expect that it should be.

David Boulton: And, somehow it's got to function that way, too, even though it doesn't. Although, a good reader transcends the sound barrier, and is picking up words and recognizing them, without the sub-vocalizations, without it going through the phonological loop, for children, who are learning to get up into it, it's got to translate into sound, before it can go beyond sound.

Dr. Guy Deutscher: Yes English readers, I should say, have a much more difficult task than those in countries like Germany or Hungary, or Scandinavian countries, or even the Netherlands, where there have been consistent spelling reforms to make sure that the writing does represent the sound system of the language, in a fairly transparent way.

David Boulton: I'm really enjoying the conversation. All of it has been very, very rich, and this zone we are in here, about how these two systems work together, and what you've learned about language is really important.

Dr. Guy Deutscher: Well, I'm enjoying it as well and I'm glad it's helpful.

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Dr. Guy Deutscher - The Evolution of Language | Children of the Code

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An Interview of Dr. Guy Deutscher, is a professor with the Department of Languages and Cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia at the University of Leiden in Holland. Dr. Deutscher is the author of a number of scholarly articles and the highly acclaimed book: "The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention".

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National Science Foundation Language Change

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National Science Foundation Language Change

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Nicole Mahoney

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Language and Linguistics: Language Change | NSF - National Science Foundation

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Before a language can change, speakers must adopt new words, sentence structures and sounds, spread them through the community and transmit them to the next generation. According to many linguists-including David Lightfoot, NSF assistant director for social, behavioral and economic sciences-children serve as agents for language change when, in the process of learning the language of previous generations, they internalize it differently and propagate a different variation of that language.

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How is the Internet changing language nowadays?

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How is the Internet changing language nowadays?

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David Crystal

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David Crystal - How is the internet changing language today?

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The virtual linguistics campus

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This E-Lecture discusses the main principles of language variation in order to find out in what way they influence the development of English from its beginnings to the present day. The examples used here are from PDE as well as from former stages of the English language..