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Download full textAl Khattab, Emran R. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
All languages change over time. English has undergone continuous change throughout its three major periods: Old English (roughly from 450 to 1100 AD), Middle English (from 1100 to 1500), and Modern English (from 1500 to the present). Sound is one of the most easily influenced parts of language to be subject to different changes. Sound change is…
Descriptors: Old English, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Phonology
Peer reviewedWinford, Donald – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Variations in the use of perfect "have" and its alternatives in the Trinidadian creole continuum are examined, based on data from a sample of speakers from different social backgrounds. The findings have implications for the study of morphosyntactic variation in other divergent dialect situations. (Contains 56 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language), English
Lamberg, Walter J.; Tomas, Douglas A. – 1976
Research on language attitudes and performances of prospective teachers shows the need for special training to prepare teachers to work with "linguistically different" students. An attempt was made to develop, and test the effectiveness of, such training. Twenty-six prospective teachers conducted an Informal Reading Inventory on the reading of a…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Autoinstructional Aids, Distinctive Features (Language), English
Pahlsson, Christer – 1984
A study of the factors affecting the burring of word-initial /r/ in a small English village found variability in the temporal, spatial, social, sexual, and phonic aspects of usage. Six categories of burrers are distinguished according to their speech habits. The evidence points to an ongoing socially and phonetically conditioned change in the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Community Characteristics, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Perkins, John – 1977
Evidence exists that, in the past, phonetic variants functioned as sociolinguistic variables, just as they do today, at least in societies with comparable stratificational patterns. This paper presents the significant details of the sociolinguistic environment within which the beginnings of the Great English Vowel Shift were embedded. An attempt…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language), English
Sharpe, M. C. – 1975
This analysis describes the phonology and grammar of the contact vernacular referred to as Roper Creole, spoken at Ngukurr on the Roper River. The analysis deals primarily with the creole used between native Roper Creole speakers. The phonology is similar to that of the Aboriginal languages of the area, with the addition of a few English sounds.…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
