Language shift

Kerswill and Trudgill proposed a from melting pot to speech community ' model . The development of a dialect starts with simple mixing of words in a pidgin language in a melting pot ' of a multilanguage community , passes through leveling stage when certain words and language constructions are used in particular cases and when rules for their use become stable and ends when a new dialect or language takes steady forms . The process ends when a community becomes linguistically marked , in other words when members of this community lose their original language identity and

begin to associate themselves with their dialect . In this case a new dialect or language is born

looks ridiculous , but it clearly demonstrates the status of the English language in America . Children use simplified grammatical forms that shock the teacher , however , these forms are much more usual for these children and , probably , for the teacher herself . Attempts to teach formal English in the community where this language is never applied are similar to learning Latin in medieval Europe where French , Spanish and Italian languages were emerging from spoiled ' Latin . American vocabulary and phonetics are obviously different from the British ones Now the language shifts affected the most basic structure of every language - grammar . To my opinion , it 's time to openly talk of a new American language that requires further study and development of own spelling and grammar rules

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