What are conservative features of American English? What are innovations in American English compared to British English?,”- Conservatism o Many features are those if England in 17th/18th centuries Phonology • Päth not path Morphology • Gotten as past participle of get Vocabulary • Fall as common as autumm o General principle: conlonial lag- Innovations: o Merger of intervocalic /t/
/d/ to /r/ Latter and ladder o New word formations (popcorn) o Borrowed words (skunk) o Old words new meaning o Old words lost in US but preserved in England”