Module 1 British and American English想知道美式英语的发展史吗
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The development of the English language in America can be divided into three periods
The first period is 1607 to the end of colonial times
In this period the population in America was about four million,90 percent of whom came from Britain
The second period covers the expansion of the original thirteen colonies
This may be said to close with the Civil War,about 1860
This period was marked by the arrival of the new immigrants from Ireland and Germany
The third period,since the Civil War,is marked by an important change in the source from which the European immigrants came
They came from northern and southern Europe in large numbers
American English began in the seventeenth century
At the beginning of the 17th century the Engl