This document outlines brief bullet-point-style notes on the Language Change unit in the CIE A Levels syllabus.
It follows the 2021-2023 syllabus (9093) and includes the topics:
- Periods of English Language (Early Modern English and Late Modern English)
- Process of Language Change (formation of new words, changes in grammar, changes in meaning, prescriptivism vs descriptivism)
- Language Change in the Digital World
- Theories of Language Change (Functional theory, Cultural Transmission theory, Random Fluctuation theory, Substratum theory and Theory of Lexical Gaps)
- Measuring Language Change through Data (brief definitions of “corpus” and “N-gram”)
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