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Language Change - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Borrowings or loan words from other languages
    - - advances in medicine, science and technology cause new words and phrases to be ivented
    - - Words created by the addition of a new prefix or suffix to an existing word
    - - A new word is craeated by combining two separate words to create one word
    - - Two separate words are merged together
    - - Changing a word from one word class to another
    - - words originating from names of people, products or places
    - - Clipping
      - Initialism
      - Acronym
  - - - Believes semantic change as fast as the rest of grammar
    - - A word gradually gains a more positive meaning over time
    - - A word gradually gains a more negative meaning over time
    - - A word acquires a wider meaning over time
    - - A word acquires a narrower meaning over time
  - - - Speakers use economy in their articulation, which tends to result in phonetic reduction of speech forms
      - Over time, change may become widely accepted as regular sound change
      - Prescriptivists may call this 'lazy' pronunciation
  - - - Paul Postal
        
        Language is as unpredictable as fashion and therefore changes in language can be completely random
      - Charles Hockett
        
        'random mistakes' lead to language changing
  - - - Migration
      - Invasion by a conqueror
- - - - Lesley Milroy describes this as a compaint tradition, the idea that people have always compained about the english language
      - The idea that English is in an irreversible decline from a once great peak
    - - "The language is going to pieces before our eyes"
    - - Worried about excessive compounding, which takes precision away from the English Language
    - - People are being careless with language
  - - - Crumbling Castle
        
        The English language is a 'beautiful' building that needs to be protected and preserved
      - Damp Spoon Syndrome
        
        People's "queasy distaste" for certain usages of change features
      - Infectious Disease
        
        Prescriptivists view language change as something harmful that can be transimtted unwittingly from one person to another
- - - - Helped to establish the East Midlands dialect as the standard
  - - - 18th Century
        
        Laid a firm foundation for the spelling system
- - - - Those with different languages have different thought processes
- - - - Speakers are unaware of this change as it enter the language primary through the vernacular
  - - - Generally it has been imposed upon them by an authority
        
        Linguistic Gatekeeping
        
        Academy Francais
        
        Plain English Campaign