Sound Change and Language Change: A Sociolinguistic Interpretation  

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Peng, Fred C. C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 1 (1979), page 94-123.
Fulltext: 01_01_Peng.pdf (1,009.68KB)

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Recently, an article by Lawrence Johnson stated that in language change "The time span considered can be across several centuries or as few as two demographic generation" (1976:165). tie thus concludes that "Specifying the terms 'fast' and 'slow', we have given some support to the claim that change begins slowly and accelerates in succeeding generations, and we have given evidence that change advances more rapidly in urban than in rural communities" (1976:171). In this article, I examine the validity of these claims. An alternative theory is then proposed, whereby[language change is viewed as a result of the accumulation of Changes in language behavior among living humans, i.e., a change in the norm of individual speech activities within a language community. In light of this view, language change can not only be observed and captured, while in progress, but also taken as a manifestation of the process of human change fia general within each generation. Concrete evidence is provided from Japanese, in the realms of sound, vocabulary, and grammar, in order to support my theorical construct.

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