Linguistical Origins
What is substrate interference?
Language A exists, and Language B arrives to the same place Language A is in. This causes people in the place to slowly abandon Language A for Language B.
What is phonetic substrate transfer?
The way in which individual knowledge of a language sound tool can affect how a person perceives and produces language in another language.
What is syntactic retention?
The ability to remember and recall the grammatical structure of a sentence.
What is linguistic archaeology?
The study of prehistory through the comparative use of historical linguistics and archaeology.
What is interactional linguistics?
An interdisciplinary approach to grammar and interaction in the field of linguistics.
What is linguistic substrate?
A language that an intrusive language influences, which may or may not ultimately change it to become a new language
What is phonological retention?
The ability to hold and remember spoken sounds or words in short-term memory
What is linguistic reconstruction?
The practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages
Who proposed the Substratum Theory?
John Locke.
What is Language Contact Theory?
The study of how languages influence each other when speakers of different languages interact with each other.
What are proto-linguistic populations?
Groups of people who are believed to have spoken a proto-language, or the hypothetical ancestor of a language family
What are substrate phonetic markers?
The phonetic representations of a language or aspect of a language that influences another language, often a more dominant one.
What are grammatical markers?
Linguistic forms that indicate the grammatical function of a word, phrase, or sentence.
What is linguistic reconstruction?
The practice of using evidence from existing languages to infer the features of a proto-language?
What is Substratum Theory?
When speakers of different native languages adopt a new dominant language, they retain features from their original languages.
What is language contact?
When speakers of different languages interact and influence each other.
What is stratum?
A historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through contact.
What is morphological change?
The evolution of the structure and formation of words in a language over time
What are migration linguistic patterns?
The observable trends and characteristics in how languages change and adapt due to the movement of people from one region to another.
How does substratum theory explain the influence of one language over another in multilingual settings?
Substratum theory explains that when one language displaces another due to factors like colonization or conquest, elements from the displaced language can still persist within the new dominant language.
What are comparative linguistics?
Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness.
What is phonological adaptation?
What is Universal Grammar Theory?
The human brain is naturally programmed to develop grammatical skills from a young age.
What is interdisciplinary linguistic analysis?
The study of language by drawing on theories and methods from multiple academic disciplines, such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, history, and computer science.
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