Re: Lenition
| From: | Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 25, 2002, 1:41 |
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Peter Clark sekalge:
>Are you suggesting
>that we can identify the individuals who are more prone to alter
symantic
>ranges and pronunciation and by example lead the rest of the population
>astray? I'm sure the Académie Française would be most interested... :)
We can limit it to a broad section of the population, at least.
Most sound changes: people ages 2?-5
Most grammatical changes: people ages 3?-8
Most* vocab changes: people ages 10-20
*By "most" I mean (here) most of the commonly used changes. I'm talking
about slang.
Other vocabulary changes usually occur when people are naming new things,
like computers and Nazis and hachimakis. However, these new words
generally start as specialized words.
Laimes,
Wright.
New Essentialist: Sturnan is Ancient Greek spoken by Spanish people
mistaking it for Hawai'ian.
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