Child Language Acquisition and Language Change Quiz

Test your knowledge over the whole A2 Syllabus.

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  • Created by: alice
  • Created on: 19-01-11 10:39

1. When new words (neologisms) are created, what is this called?

  • Creation
  • Coinage
  • Furthering
  • Manufacturing
  • Explaining
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2. What is 'friendly fire' an example of?

  • Specialisation
  • Lexical change
  • Similie
  • A euphemism
  • A holophrase

3. Register can be...

  • Engaging or Extreme
  • Colloquial or Formal
  • Interesting or Boring
  • Measurable or Abstract
  • Lexical or Semantic

4. Which of these is an example of an archaic inflection?

  • -gate
  • -tion
  • -eth
  • -er
  • -ness

5. What is 'blackbird'?

  • A compound noun
  • A grapheme
  • Colloquial slang term
  • Abstract noun
  • An archaism
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Nathan

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Oh yeah! 100%!!

Anisha

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you know for question 1, i thought the answer is 'oxymoron'? 

Gabby

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no its not its a euthemism as it makes it sound more positive its nothing to do with an auzimoran sorry

Joe

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Bang Tidy Quiz mate :)

natalie

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100% obviously.

Louis Harman

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I think its a euphemism and oxymoron xD

Lorenzo

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Alice is cool.

WriteMaster

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Yeaaaahhhhh

Reece

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Got the Broadening and Narrowing mixed up :|

Zoe Key

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'What is the first stage (where a child has learnt one word) called?' - We've been taught that the first stage is 'pre-verbal' or 'pre-linguistic' but it helps that you put the bracketed bit. 

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