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Is/Was the following contrast marked in the nominal paradigm of the Old English and/or Present Day English?  

Type of declension 

Knecht > knight 

Lack of third person singular -s is an example of contemporary variation in English.  

Levelling of inflections is an example of contemporary variation in English. 

Match each word with one suitable word and create a minimal pair:

Meal, tail, boss, chain, goat, bone, rat, bit, road, pain 

 

  • pit - bit 
  • buzz - boss 
  • vote - goat 
  • sane - chain 

Match the following questions with the corrosponding problems of a theory of language change:  

How did the change start in the first place and by whom? 

Match the following questions with the corrosponding problems of a theory of language change: 

How does the feature spread in the community? 

Match the following questions with the corrosponding problems of a theory of language change: 

What sort of language changes are possible? 

match the model and the name 

  1. six functions of language 
  2. linguistic sign 
  3. semiotic triangle 
  4. organon model 

 

  • Ferdinand de Saussure 
  • Karl Bühler 
  • Roman Jackson 
  • Charles Ogden, Ivor Richards 

 

  • Six functions of language - Roman Jackson 
  • Linguistic sign - Ferdinand de Saussure 
  • Semiotic Triangle - Charles Ogden, Ivor Richards 
  • Organon Model - Karl Bühler 

Match the word with the one that has the same diphthong. 

although 

Match the word with the one that has the same diphthong.  

boy 

Match the word with the one that has the same diphthong. 

explain 

Match the word with the one that has the same diphthong.  

eyes 

Match the word with the one that has the same diphthong.  

wow 

mete (OE 'food') > meat (PDE) 

Modern English spelling has preserved the pronunciation before the _____ which involved a series of sound changes of the _____ _____. 

  1. Great Vowel Shift 
  2. long 
  3. vowels 

modig 'couragous' > 'moody' 

Northern Cities Shift is an example of contemporary variation in English. 

Oldest written documents are used in this approach. 

Regularization of second person singular pronouns is an example of contemporary variation in English. 

Researcher's own intuition is used in this approach. 

Scientists who observe language objectively and describe how language actually works, use an approach called ___. 

The contrary approach, which focuses on correct language use, is called ____. e

Scientists who observe language objectively and describe how language actually works, use an approach called... 

Searle's classification of speech focuses on ... 

Shakespeare's Hamlet 

Studies based on authentic language data are ___. 

They make use of large collections of text, so-called ___.

The contrary approach, where scientists rely on their own intuition, is ___. 

  • empirical
  • corpora 
  • introspective 

 

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 

The discription of language at a particular point in time . 

synchronic

The King James Bible 

The linguitis who coined the terms 'competence' and 'performance', following Saussure's earlier terms of langue and parole. 

Noam Chomsky

The standard arose at the end of the ... century. 

14th

The standard used the ... dialect as a model. 

The synchronic perspective of language is... 

The word 'rebel vs. to re'bel illustrates ... 

stress shift in verb - noun pairs. 

The word impolite is composed of a derivational morpheme and a free morpheme. 

The word impossible is composed of a free morpheme and a derivational suffix. 

The word impressive is composed of a free morpheme and a derivational suffix. 

The word pair fine / fain vs. vine / vain illustrates ... 

development of pairs of fricatives 

These words 'echo' the sounds of the objects or activities the discribe. 

onomatopoeia

This term denotes objects in the world outside of language. 

extralinguistic referent

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