I think many of them are frustrated by the thinness and inadequacy of ordinary spoken language, of ordinary contact even with the people they know best and love best.
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Setting aside the influence of language contact, one of the primary sources of language-internal variation is hypothesized to have originated from listeners failing to compensate for context-induced variation in speech properly [7], [9], [10].
Dutch emerged as a structurally distinct branch of West Germanic as the result of language contact between speakers of North Sea Germanic and speakers of the South Germanic "Franconian," or Frankish.
From this situation of language contact, a new language emerged, now known as ASL.
In this study we have been able to elucidate that languages and peoples can move independent of each other within the Cross River region of Nigeria, a finding that will be of considerable interest to linguists working on aspects of language contact.
ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact.
A linguistic area is a geographical region in which the languages share structural traits as a result of contact between the languages of the area.
He says, "Neuroscientists need to be familiar with the language of imaging and in contact with people who understand the fundamentals of imaging, but the people who make the breakthroughs in neuroscience will be the ones who bring the intriguing questions to the new techniques".
But, amid waves of contact, large languages lose their sharp edges, becoming bevelled as pieces of glass.
