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• Attrition
  *[[language attrition]] (changes in a language due to less and less use) *[[phonetic attrition]] (phonetic reduction in language change)
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• Pidgin
  A '''pidgin (language)''' is a language with a simplified structure that has no or few [[native speaker]]s and is p ...e and its vocabulary must be sharply reduced [...], and also the resultant language must be native to none of those who use it."'' (Hall 1966:xii)
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• Dissimilation
  '''Dissimilation''' (also called dissimilatory change) is a sound change in which one sound becomes less similar than another, usually adjacent, sou * McMahon, April M.S. 1994. Understanding language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Xenism
  ...stage is when a word from one language is used in an utterance of another language in order to create a somewhat exotic effect. A this stage, the word is not *Jones, Mari C. & Singh, Ishtla. 2005. ''Exploring language change.'' London: Routledge.
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• Grammaticalization path
  ...he pathway a form or construction takes during [[grammaticalization]]. The change from a [[lexical item]] to a grammatical form does not take place in one ab ...act-induced change]], since they have "usually been viewed as independent, language internal changes" (Heine & Kuteva 2005:14).
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• Cultural borrowing
  ...ord]] that was adopted to express a concept that is new to the [[recipient language]] speakers' culture. The term is especially used in Myers-Scotton's work an ...age's store of words because they stand for objects or concepts new to the language's culture."'' (Myers-Scotton 2006:212)
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• Multicultural London English
  ...e late 20th century in inner city London. Being the result of group second language acquisition of British English, it incorporates features of Patois, West A ...Ethnicity, Friendship Network and Social Practices as the Motor of Dialect Change: Linguistic Innovation in London. ''Sociolinguistica'', 22: 1–23.
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• Antigrammaticalization
  '''Antigrammaticalization''' is a morphosyntactic change that is the opposite of grammaticalization in that it "leads from the endpo ...own the cline: The nature of grammaticalization.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 59.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-44.
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• Metatypy
  ...del language in which the speakers are bilingual and which is the dominant language of the speakers. ...orresponding verb is ''metatypize'' (e.g. "a metatypized language", i.e. a language that has undergone metatypy).
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• Normal transmission
  ...parent generation and/or the peer group, "with relatively small degrees of change over the short run"(Thomason & Kaufmann 1988: 9f.). ...ak in transmission are [[creole]] languages and all other types of [[mixed language]]s.
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• Sound change
  '''Sound change''' is a kind of [[language change]] concerning the phonological system (including phonetic realisation). If a sound change is a general phenomenon, it is called a [[sound law]] or a [[phonetical rul
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• Native word
  ...ed]] from another language, but was inherited from an earlier stage of the language, i.e. a word that is not a [[loanword]]. ...]. At a still earlier time, ''hand'' may have been borowed from some other language, i.e. it may be a loanword after all (we have no way of knowing).
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• Core borrowing
  ...ite the fact that a word for the concept already exists in the [[recipient language]]. *"Core borrowings are words that duplicate elements that the recipient language already has in its word store...Then why are they borrowed? One answer is c
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• Elision
  [[Category:Language change]]
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• Loan creation
  The term '''loan creation''' denotes a type of contact-induced lexical change whereby a new complex word is created matching a foreign model semantically ...ions of a foreign model, but were secondarily created within the borrowing language. An example is the Yaqui term ''liósnóoka'' 'pray', composed of the loanw
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• Chain shift
  ...t is that all the phonemes of a language build a balanced system so that a change in one part of the system can cause changes in its other parts. In this vie ...y pulling in some other sound of the phonemic system. If after this second change a new gap emerges the process of pulling continues resulting in a chain of
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• Fixed-context assumption
  ...antic frameworks that interpret expressions in terms of their potential to change the context. * Barwise, J. & R. Cooper 1981. ''Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language,'' Linguistics and Philosophy 4, pp. 159-219
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• Cognate
  ...variety of the same language, or even to a different form within the same language/variety) due to a historical/genealogical relationship between the two form ...]] can be established with the [[comparative method]]. In this way [[sound change]]s like the ones described by [[Grimm's Law]] can be recognized.
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• Foreignism
  ...when the [[recipient language]] community is not bilingual in the [[donor language]]. [[Category:Contact-induced change]]
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• Relexification
  ...bstrate language]]s, while their words derive from the European [[lexifier language]]s. ...s been largely replaced...by a more recent vocabulary derived from another language, while the original grammatical structure is preserved... This process of r
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