Monster Essays - 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 english language has about 43 different phonemes, such as OH, EE,
etc. which make up o....
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