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A word that is given a more grammatical function through reanalysis goes through the process of ...
grammaticalization
The process of grammaticalisation includes a morpheme which previously only had a lexical function to gain a grammatical function through ...
reanalysis
kill 'strike, beat, torment' > 'put to death'
cniht 'boy, servant' > 'knight'
(ge) sællig 'happy, blessed' > 'silly'
mete 'food' > 'meat'
Directives are a stable speech act function that we can use to investigate how language use has changed over time.
Who introduced the program of structural linguistics?
Linguistic input is crucial during the first years of a child’s life for language to be acquired.
Children acquire a language through analogy alone
During the telegraphic stage of language acquisition, children build lexical sentence structures rather than grammatical ones.
Oftentimes someone’s first language may influence their second language.
to start - to begin
seen - scene
employer - employee
hand - finger
match (similar items) - match (lighter)
mouse (animal) - mouse (computer)
What is this called?
Feature semantics
What is this called?
Prototype semantics
According to John Austin, a speech act has three components: the locution, illocution and perlocution. Is the following definition true or false for "perlocution"?
Assign the following principles to the right approach.
Nativist approach to LA (Chomsky)
Beowolf
Charles Dickens' Hard Times
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Choose the correct word-formation process for the following expression.
finger food
Choose the correct word-formation process for the following expression.
info
Choose the correct word-formation process for the following expression.
to bottle
Choose the correct word-formation process for the following expression.
UNESCO
Classify the final sound of the word append.
- voiced
- alveolar
- plosive
Classify the final sound of the word autumn.
- voiced
- bilabial
- nasal
Classify the final sound of the word bathe.
- voiced
- interdental
- fricative
Classify the final sound of the word pitch.
- voiceless
- palato-alveolar
- affricate
Contemporary published or collected data is used in this approach
Derivational morphemes can be a prefix or a suffix.
Derivational morphemes can change the word-class.
Derivational morphemes cannot be used to create a new word.
Development of pairs of fricatives occurred in ...
Emergence of the progressive is an example of contemporary variation in English.
Fill in:
Human language consists of different structural levels. The sound system is studied in ....
Phonetics and Phonology
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Lernkarten
Grice’s Cooperative Principle of human conversation includes four different maxims.
Which of the four maxims correspond to the following definitions:
Be perspicuous. Avoid obscurity and ambiguity. Be orderly.
maxim of manner
List the following models of language and communication in chronological order , start
with the earliest model at the top.
- semiotic triangle
- organon-model
- six functions of language
- linguistic sign
- semiotic triangle
- linguistic sign
- organon-model
- six funtions of language
I promise to be there on time.
Bring the water and sugar to a boil in a saucepan.
And the winner is ... Nicole Kidman (applause)
Oh I love him very much
Grimm’s (Sound) law affects the following sounds in the languages:
The basic property of language that allows us to see this system to think and talk about
itself.
Define.
reflexivity
These words ‘echo’ the sounds of the objects or activities they describe.
Define.
onomatopoeia
The description of language across a particular time span.
synchronic
The term used by Noam Chomsky to refer to the idealized mental knowledge of a
language.
competence
phonetic change?
house
phonetic change?
christ
phonetic change?
bite
phonetic change?
garage
phonetic change?
Goat
phonetic change?
Bit
First language acquisition is characterized by the following traits:
Second language acquisition is characterized by the following traits:
What are typical features of the Language Faculty?
This is a counting task.
The phone rang. I answered. The caller was Annie. She told me that she was waiting at the station. I told her nothing over the phone. I waited.
a) How many full sentences are in this text contain only a Subject and a Verb.
b) How many adverbials are in this text?
c) How many subordinate clauses are in the text?
- 3
- 2
- 2
Language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situation of the speaker. This is known as ...
displacement
Which of the six funtions of language described by Roman Jakobson refers to the same property as the one mentioned in b)?
Which of the six functions denotes the adresser's reaction to a given situation?
Which of the following statements could be used to explain why "Can you pass me the salt?" is an indirect speech act? Please tick only those that apply.
I ust love your new style.
Make your contribution as informative as is required, do not make it more informative than is required.
Maxim of ....
quantity
Who are the notions of 'Cooperative Principle' and 'conversational maxims' usually attributed to?
What is a phoneme?
/t/ and /d/ are ...
Comparative reconstruction...
A synthetic language expresses syntactic information via:
An analytic language expresses syntactic information via:
Levelling resulted in ...
Happy Birthday, Peter!
Can you help me carry this box?
He promised to help his mother-in-law.
The semantic approach that analyses words based on the presence or absence of specific properties is called:
structural semantics
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