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Week Two CIED 4013

Week Two CIED 4013. Language History and Change. Indo-European Language Family. http://www.danshort.com/ie/ie3.pdf. Some Facts. 6909 languages (2012) 993 living languages in the Americas Rank: Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi. Language Affinities.

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Week Two CIED 4013

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  1. Week TwoCIED 4013 Language History and Change

  2. Indo-European Language Family • http://www.danshort.com/ie/ie3.pdf

  3. Some Facts 6909 languages (2012) 993 living languages in the Americas Rank: Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi

  4. Language Affinities Jones inaugurated the study of the natural history of language. Tooth

  5. Language Reconstruction • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDM-ibezJQ Cognates Comparative Reconstruction Proto form Majority principle Most natural development principle Sound & word reconstruction

  6. From Old to Modern • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexKqvgPVuA • Old? Before 1100 • Middle: To 1500 • Early Modern: to 1700 (great vowel shift) • Modern: up to NOW

  7. And More Changes Sound Changes • Sound loss –nicht to night • Metathesis—bridd to bird • Epenthesis—parabola to palabra • Prothesis—schola to escuela

  8. Syntactic changes • SVO –word order • Inflectional changes—loss of suffixes Semantic changes • Broadening—holy day to holiday • Narrowing—mete to meat

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