English 454 and 554
Spring 2011
History of the English Language
Friday, January 14, 2011
Friday, Week 1
We finished discussing universal properties of language. Then we moved on to synchronic variation, registers, accents and dialects. We talked about geographic and social dialects and about synchronic variation as the seedbed for diachronic change.
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