words are combined together to form new words e.g. user-friendly
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what is clipping?
words are shortened and the shortened version becomes the norm e.g pram
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what is blending?
a combination of clipping and compounding - words are abbreviated and joined together to form a new word e.g moped
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what is acronym?
first letters are taken from a series of words to create a new term e.g aids
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what is initialism?
the first letters from a series of words from a new term, but each letter is pronounced. e.g MP3
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what is meant by affixation?
one or more free morphemes are combined with one or more bound morphemes
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what is conversion?
a word shifts from one word class to another, usually from a noun to a verb
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what is eponym?
names of a person or a company are used to define particular objects
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what is back formation?
a verb is created from an existing noun by removing a suffix
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what happened in terms of pride in the 16th and 17th century?
there was a growing pride with english as the nation had finally returned to english power after a long period under french rule.
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What did Thomas Wilson in the arte of rhetorique in 1553 refer to?
'straunge ynkehorne terms
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what were the inkhorn terms said to be?
pretentious and artificial but enabled creativity
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which writer was for inkhorn terms?
Shakespeare - he introduced over 1700 new words
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Why did people oppose these terms?
they believed that they would corrupt the english language as they were seen as merely fashionable and likely to fall as quickly out of use as they have come in to use
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what did the inkhorn terms become a symbol for?
authorial importance
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What did Samuel Daniel say in 1559?
spoke of English as 'the treasure of our tongue', 'the greatness of our stile' and 'our best glory'
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what happened towards the second half of the 17th century?
there were attempts to fix the English language
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who was the most notable professor to attempt to fix the english langugae?
Jonathon Swift
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What did Jonathon Swift publish in 1712?
'a proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the english tongue'
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What was published in 1755 as one of the first major attempts to fix and stabalise the Langugae?
Johnsons dictionary
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What fictional creature did jean berko talk about in his study?
'wugs'
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what percentage of 4-5 year olds said wugs?
75%
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What did Alan Cruttenden aim to test in 1975?
to test whether children can understand meaning from intonation.
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What did Cruttenden compare?
how adults and children could predict results from listening to scores.
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what did Cruttenden find?
adults could predict the winners based on the intonation placed on the first team more successfully
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What did Cruttenden found about children aged less than 7?
they were less accurate
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what is dialect leveling?
The process by which language forms of different parts of the country converge and become more similar over time.
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what did eckert find about teen talk in 2003?
use of like and okay, rising intonation, multiple negation.
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What did Ignacio Palacios Martinez find in 2011 about teen talk?
use of negatives
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What did Unni Berland find in 1997 about teen talk?
use of tags e.g. innit yeah right.
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what is accent?
variation in pronunciation associated with a particular geographical region
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what is dialect?
variations in words and structures associated with a particular geographical region
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what is standard english?
the dialect of English that is considered to have the most prestige
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Where did Gary Ives conduct research?
in a secondary school in west yorkshire
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what did Gary Ives ask the teens?
'Do you think people speak differently depending on their age?
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how many teens were asked and what percent said yes?
63 teens asked and 100% said yes
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Front
what is clipping?
Back
words are shortened and the shortened version becomes the norm e.g pram
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