Essay Archive - The Study of Linguistics
The Study of Linguistics
Language changes with history and time. Our perception of words
changes. Everything changes, from cooking with fire to cooking with a
microwave. Even language changes, examples are accents and books,
influential people, and historical occurrences.
Accents shows development of culture over time, maybe over a
historical occurrence, such as a new country being found, the people living
there might adopt the culture of the founders. Language also changes, from
using different sounds in words, which are called phonemes.
The engl....
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