English Great Vowel Shift:
examples
English Great Vowel Shift
Jean Aitchison
(2001, 3rd
edition)
Language
Change:
progress or
decay?
Cambridge
University
Press, p185
Jean Aitchison (2001, 3rd edition) Language Change: progress or decay? Cambridge University Press, p186
Grimm’s Law: examples
Jean Aitchison (2001, 3rd edition) Language Change: progress or decay? Cambridge University Press, p184
Grimm’s Law as a chain shift
Jean Aitchison
(2001, 3rd
edition)
Language
Change:
progress or
decay?
Cambridge
University
Press, p184
Second Germanic consonant shift
Jean Aitchison (2001, 3rd edition) Language Change: progress or decay? Cambridge University Press, p189
Jean Aitchison
(2001, 3rd
edition)
Language
Change:
progress or
decay?
Cambridge
University
Press, p188
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Great Vowel Shift of Late Middle
Chinese
English Pronunciation (older)
Jean Aitchison (2001, 3rd
edition) Language Change:
progress or decay? Cambridge
University Press, p190
Jean Aitchison (2001, 3rd edition) Language Change: progress or decay?
Cambridge University Press, p192
A newer development
Jean Aitchison (2001, 3rd edition) Language Change: progress or decay? Cambridge University Press, p193
LANGUAGE CHANGE:
the ‘Northern Cities Chain Shift’
Estuary English pronunciations
Jean Aitchison (2001, 3rd edition) Language Change: progress or decay? Cambridge University Press, p193
Cross-Dialectal Comprehension
(CDC)
• Hairdresser: What’s your name?
Gillian: Gillian
Hairdresser: OK, Joanne, we’ll see you at 11:00
• Charlotte [Virginia]: Cinnamon carrot cake—that sounds
good.
Robin [Long Island]: Salmon carrot cake?
• Tony: Well Marty, we went in the locks … and he got
stuck in there, and they had to tow him out.
WL: What do you mean … in the where?
Tony: in the locks [laughs]
WL: Whassat?
Floyd: For a boat, you know.
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Cross-Dialectal Comprehension
(CDC)
• Hairdresser: What’s your name?
Gillian: Gillian
Hairdresser: OK, Joanne, we’ll see you at 11:00
• Charlotte [Virginia]: Cinnamon carrot cake—that sounds
good.
Robin [Long Island]: Salmon carrot cake?
• Tony: Well Marty, we went in the locks … and he got
stuck in there, and they had to tow him out.
WL: What do you mean … in the where?
Tony: in the locks [laughs]
WL: Whassat?
Floyd: For a boat, you know.
[læks]
Chicago, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, …
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