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> Something about how the accents of colonies tend to become fixed in time It's about isolation. Colonies tend to be far away and difficult to travel to and fr
by mseebach 8y ago
> Something about how the accents of colonies tend to become fixed in time
It's about isolation. Colonies tend to be far away and difficult to travel to and from. So the american colonies only had what they brought with them, and a relatively thin trickle of trans-atlantic traffic, while England remained knee deep in European culture and the linguistic influences that come with it. A few hundred years of that leaves a deep mark.
- Mediterraneo10 8y ago> It's about isolation. Not necessarily. An innovative center and conservative periphery is commonly observed even in language families where the center is far from trade routes, while on the periphery the languages are spoken in territories along major trade routes.