Language change 3.0 / 5 based on 3 ratings ? English LanguageA2/A-levelAQA Created by: CiaraCreated on: 02-05-13 13:02 An Attitude to language which makes judgements about what is right or wrong? Prescriptivism 1 of 8 Borrowing is when? you have borrowed a word from another language 2 of 8 In which year did the great vowel shift end? 1750 3 of 8 Radio was introduced in 1953, what complications could this have caused? Slight corruption of regional accents 4 of 8 When did the long f become undundient? 1800 5 of 8 What is initialism? An extream clipping where the first letters of the words have been taken to make a new word i.e. BBC 6 of 8 What is back formation? the removal of an imagined affix from an existing word 7 of 8 What is conversion When a word changes class without adding a prefix or a suffix 8 of 8
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