Language change

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What is coinage ?
The creation of completely new words.
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What is the difference between blends and compounding words ?
Blends only take part of a word and add it to another, whereas compounds use the whole word.
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Name two examples of semantic change
Pejoration, Amelioration.
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Who carried out the study in Martha's Vineyard ?
Labov.
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What were Jean Aitchison's four stages regarding phonological change ?
1) the speech of a social group differs in some way. 2) a second group begins to imitate the speech of the first group. 3) the new pronunciation becomes established among the second group..4) a fourth group begins to model themselves on the 2nd group
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Name two types of language change in terms of pronunciation.
Assimilation and omission.
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List three types of grammatical change
Inflections, pronouns, who and whom.
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What is the difference between blends and compounding words ?

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Blends only take part of a word and add it to another, whereas compounds use the whole word.

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Name two examples of semantic change

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Who carried out the study in Martha's Vineyard ?

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What were Jean Aitchison's four stages regarding phonological change ?

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