Lecture No. 21 --Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method

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Lecture No. 21 --Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method
Linguistics 105 * Words and Sounds Lecture Number Twenty One Tracking Linguistic Drift: The Comparative Method Linguistic Drift Causes Imperfect transfer between generations Heavy lexical borrowing: English / /: garage, rouge, arbitrage Foreign accents (from heavy immigration) Phonological Change Syncope: courtesy curtsy aeroplane airplane camera Latin fem na French femme Latin num rum French ...