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Part 5: Common Core Practice Lesson 2
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Part 5: Common Core Practice Lesson 2
pea or many peas. At some point, people mistakenly assumed that the word pease was the plural form of pea, and a new word was born. While vocabulary can change quickly, sentence structureâthe order of words in a sentenceâchanges more slowly. Yet itâs clear that todayâs English speakers construct sentences very differently from Chaucer and Shakespeareâs contemporaries (see [table] above). Changes in sound are somewhat harder to document, but at least as interesting. For example, during the so-called âGreat Vowel Shiftâ1 500 years ago, English speakers modified their vowel pronunciation dramatically. This shift represents the biggest difference between the pronunciations of so called Middle and Modern English.
Agents of Change
6 Before a language can change, speakers must adopt new words, sentence structures and sounds, spread them through the community and transmit them to the next generation. According to many linguistsâincluding David Lightfoot, NSF2 assistant director for social, behavioral and economic sciencesâchildren serve as agents for language change when, in the process of learning the language of previous generations, they internalize it differently and propagate a different variation of that language.
7 Linguists study language change by addressing questions such as these: Can we trace the evolutionary path of a language? How do language changes spread through communities? How do historical circumstances influence language change? What is the relationship between language learning and change?
Paths of Change
8 NSF researcher Anthony Kroch of the University of Pennsylvania is trying to understand how language change spreads through populations. With collaborator Beatrice Santorini, he is compiling an electronic collection of Modern English texts covering the time period from 1700 to 1914 (the beginning of World War I). The completed âcorpus,â as it is known, will complement three others created independently over the past decade by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of York, England. The existing worksâwhich span 900 years of English historyâcontain more than 4.5 million words of text carefully tagged and annotated for linguistic features. The publicly available collection gives researchers a standardized, searchable document to track changes in the English language over time. It helps them explore language shifts in a historical context and examine the link between language learning and change.
1 During the Great Vowel Shift of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, English speakers gradually changed the way they pronounced vowels.
2 National Science Foundatio
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