The Sociolinguistic Evolution of a Sound Change

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Negative prestige and sound change : A sociolinguistic study of the assibilation of / ʁ / in Piripiri Portuguese

Sound change and speech evolution

Strictly phonemic models of the lexicon hold that the pronunciation of a phoneme is determined solely by the grammar, not word identity, and therefore predict that sound change should occur in lockstep across the lexicon. Early work on lexical diffusion in the 60’s and 70’s called the phonemic model into question by suggesting that sound change can proceed at different rates in different words,...

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

The Evolution of Egalitarian Sociolinguistic Conventions

Half a century ago, two works laid the foundation for modern sociolinguistics. Lewis (1969) studied a speech community using a system of symbols and grammatical rules and coordinating on the mapping from symbols to states of the world in order to communicate effectively. Economists and others built on Lewis’ work to erect the modern theory of conventions, their persistence and occasional transf...