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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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How many consonants can you find in the word "psychology"?
4
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Ban, bone, been
How many basic sentence patterns does our course book list for English?
7
There are two ways to pronounce 'asap'. Name both.
- alphabetism (i: - es - ei - pi:)
- acronym (eisäp)
One of the very first groups who lived on the British Isles before the first century were the ...
The Romans were the first to invade the British Isles and brought the
At around 450, the .... invaded the British Isles.
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes and Frisians
The Viking invasion introduced Old Norse on the British Isles. The linguistic consequence of this invasion was ...
that a bilingual society arose.
The Normans invaded the British Isles in
1066
Middle English is known as the “Period of Great Change”, for which one characteristic is the grammatical change of ...
loss of inflections.
Middle English also had ... which can be studied in the “Canterbury Tales” written by Geoffrey Chaucer
huge dialect variety
In Middle English, Latin and French were the high variety languages and English was the low variety language. This phenomenon is part of ....
diglossia
When was the printing press introduced?
1476
During the [...] period in the British Isles, English borrowed many words from Greek and Latin. Despite the large number of loan words, many criticised the influx of borrowings and mocked the use of such words by referring to them as [...].
- Renaissance
- inkhorn terms
[...] made a contribution to the standardisation and development of the English language, by expanding the vocabulary with 2000 newly created words and coining 135 phrases. Another influence in the standardisation of the language was the [...] with many of its phrases still being used in Present-Day English as part of everyday speech.
- William Shakespeare
- King Jame's Bible
The Late Modern English period is characterised as a _____ period, due to the many socioeconomic and technological changes that took place.
... composed the first modern English dictionary in 1755
Samuel Johnson
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of sound changes in the [...] during the [...] period affecting [...]. The processes resulting in the sound changes were [...].
- long vowel system
- Middle English
- Standard English
- vowel raising, diphtongisation and vowel merging
fot - *fotiz > *fetiz > foot - feet
h/u:/s to h/au/s
in the standard dialect: /u/ to /ʌ/
pater (Latin) to Vater (German) and father (English)
In Old English, voiced and voiceless fricatives only existed as conditioned allophones. In Middle English they gained phonemic status and existed as phonemic pairs due to the influence of French borrowings and the loss of the distinctive endings of Germanic words.
A synthetic language expresses syntactic relations within sentences using ...
An example of a synthetic language is ...
What is flexible in a synthetic language?
Word order
What is syncretism?
one form refers to more than just one function across the paradigm
... can be used to express grammatical meaning by one or more free morphemes instead of inflectional affixes.
Periphrastic construction
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.
