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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
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
- six functions of language
- linguistic sign
- semiotic triangle
- 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 _____ _____.
- Great Vowel Shift
- long
- 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
