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Change and Development in the English Language Thesis ment: In approaching the study of language and language change, one comes across several effective methods and internal reconstruction and comparative reconstruction are two of the most valuable and principal methods of the study of language prehistory which offer no possibility of external corroboration of its results.... This essay talks about the various socio-historical influences on the development of the Old English such as the separation of the land from the Continental influences, conversion of the English to Christianity, the assimilation of the Scandinavian colonizers on the english language, etc....
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Change and Development in the English Language Thesis ment: There is a clear distance between the established English pronunciation and the current English pronunciation.... The pronunciation of English has been studied and the sounds of the english language where coined in term of phonetics.... The Pronunciation of Sound: The pronunciation of English has been studied and the sounds of the english language where coined in term of phonetics.... the english language is constructed from Greek and Latin....
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It is promoted by some linguistics experts, and aims to standardise the use of the english language in the European Union.... It follows that social change will contribute to a change in status of a language, as Knowles implies in his study of the history of the english language (Knowles, 1997).... ocial Changes as InfluencesPolitical, military, economic, cultural, scientific and technological changes in society propelled the english language towards the historically significant status of "global language," since no other language has ever laid stake to so grand a claim....
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(Pyles and Algeo, 131) The other major dialects of the Middle English included the Kentish, the Northern, and the Southern and the progress of a major dialect from among many in the Middle English contributed to the development of the language as a whole.... For that reason, East-Midland is by far the most important dialect of Middle English for the subsequent development of the language.... Thesis Statement: Though there has been a diversity of dialects in the Middle english including the Northern, the East Midlands, the West Midlands, the Southern, and the Kentish, it was the dialect of the East Midlands which became the standard dialect of the England in the Middle english period.
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Topic Sentence 1: One of the most distinguishing characteristics of the Middle english has been the existence of a diversity of dialects and they generally correspond to the Old english Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms such as Northern, Southern, East Midland, and West Midland kingdoms.
Topic Sentence 2: As a result of the prominent place of the East Midland dialect, particularly after London became an East Midland-speaking city, the other dialects began to lose their original importance....
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In the origin and development of the english language, several significant elements and events played their influential role and the changes and developments that have taken place over several centuries in the history of the language helped the english language achieve its present position.... hellip; Thus, an important event that occurred toward the end of the Old English period had a greater effect on the english language than any other in the course of its history and it is the event of the Norman Conquest in 1066....
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Thus, due to this progress, changes and development of English, we see it today as a language of common-culture and people from different parts of the World use it as their means of communication.... It has seen changes due influence of other language over it.... It has become a common language because it is a mixture of many languages particulary German and who knows how many other languages had played their part in its development.... english is among the oldest languages of the world....
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"Motivation of Language Change" paper explores the notion of internal, external, and extra-linguistic motivations for language change and their efficacy in propelling language change.... Languages continuously change and diverge when separated.... In contrast to the structural approach, external explanations stipulate that it is impossible to comprehend linguistic change and innovation in an internal vacuum.... The author considers the internal motivations of language to be more potent in effecting language change....
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The impact of the overseas involvement of the military on the english language was already evident by 1914, which had remarkable differences with the English of the Elizabethan age (Taylor 2011, p.... This paper "language Acquisition" discusses language that has a unique capability of adapting itself rapidly and efficiently to satisfy new needs.... Both WWI and WWII were eras of language creativity that portrayed soldiers as having a genius for coming up with slang and terms....
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