Language Change Flashcards

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Diachronic approach

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This is looking at now language devil and changes from one point of time to another

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Synchronic approach

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Looking at the features language at a single point in time

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Mesolect

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Varieties in a parent language

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British Black English

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Afro-Carribean immigrants continue to speak their native Creoles but children develop with English influences

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