Language change

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

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Borrowing is when?

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you have borrowed a word from another language

Card 3

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In which year did the great vowel shift end?

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Card 4

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Radio was introduced in 1953, what complications could this have caused?

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Card 5

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When did the long f become undundient?

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