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INTERNAL factors to lang change: EASE OF ARTICULATION (OMISSION…
INTERNAL factors to lang change: EASE OF ARTICULATION
ASSIMILATION
when this occurs tween words, it's usually contemporary --> when saying 10 pounds we might move 'n' sound closer to 'm' ~ tem-pounds
hwvr ten unlikely to change to 'tem' as pattern isn't common in other situations
hwvr ass w/in words tends to be more widely used --> most ppl pronounce 'handbag' as 'hambag' - often to save effort
sounds that are adjacent to each other 'become similar', w/ 1 sound moving towards the other to make pronunciation simpler
OMISSION
when speaking fast, some sounds might be left out
not lazy or sloppy but way of making lang more fluent & flow better
tend to even out difficult sounds - some barely noticed e.g t is whistles & thistle
pattern seen in
NEATENING / REGULARISATION
inconsistencies smoothed out
older forms of past tense verbs are increasingly being replaced by more regularised verb endings (e.g to sneak ---> snuck used less frequently than sneaked)
new verbs have regularised endings (e.g google = googled)
most plurals end w/ -s (e.g books). older nouns have lost older endings so they're more regularised (e.g pl of shoes = shooen, now = shoes
phonological pairing of voiced (
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) and voiceless (
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) in 19th Century addressed the 'gap' in phonological patterning
voiced: ......
voiceless:......
HOWEVER no 'pairing' of /h/ has emerged, leaving it a weak phoneme, maybe explaining why it is often omitted in colloquial speech