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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Brooks, Mark <</font><a href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.10.15 (01) [EN]</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Roger wrote: “Couldn't we not just add:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- ordinary dialectal diversification after settlement, </font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- followed by a standardization 100 to 500 yrs later, leading to "solving developped differences" by "simplification"?”<br> <br>Thanks, Roger, I hadn’t thought of dialects as an explanation for “internal” simplification. I puzzled with the fact that languages (e.g., Old Norse, Old English) seem to undergo simplification on their own. So, it seems to work like creolization, but on a smaller scale within a language. I don’t know the name for that process, if it has a name.<br>
<br>You can see that I really enjoy this topic. One of my most enjoyable classes in college had the title “Black English.” However, it dealt extensively with creolization in general, not just with what happened to the language of slaves in the American South.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Mark Brooks </font></div>
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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <</font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><br>
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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mark,<br><br>This ought to be a topic of interest to <strong>any</strong>one that deals with language development, "language" standing for <strong>any</strong> language variety, including dialects and so forth. Language contacts cannot be ignored.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Here some relevant sources:</font></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/index.html"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/index.html</font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.hevanet.com/alexwest/pidgin.html"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.hevanet.com/alexwest/pidgin.html</font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/pidginCreoleLanguage.html"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/pidginCreoleLanguage.html</font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_contact"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_contact</font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-creole_speech_continuum"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-creole_speech_continuum</font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_language"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_language</font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_transfer"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_transfer</font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~gillian/Interlang.doc.pdf"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~gillian/Interlang.doc.pdf</font></a></div>
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<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</font></div>
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