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Language Change: Causes and Effects by fitriramadani0399 is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses language change and variation. It explains that changes can spread from group to group based on social factors, and from more formal to more casual styles. Changes also spread through lexical diffusion, where a sound change occurs in one word and later spreads to other words. Language change can be studied through apparent time studies, which compare speech across age groups, and real time studies, which revisit a community over several years. Social factors like status, gender, and

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