A- Eng Change and Variation

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Decks in this class (17)

Intro to Language Change
What s the oldest ish language th...,
What did the first settlers of br...,
What did slightly later but still...
50  cards
Lexical Change
Coinage,
Borrowing,
Loan words
13  cards
Semantic Change
Broadening,
Narrowing,
Amelioration
9  cards
Phonological Change
The great vowel shift,
Martha s vineyard,
Milton keynes estuary
6  cards
Grammatical Change
When happen,
Inflections,
Inflections verbs
9  cards
Causes of Language Change
Ease of articulation,
Ease of articulation,
Ease of articulation
6  cards
Miscellaneous not really an ODM mishmash
Purists,
New world englishes,
World standard english
5  cards
Fuck it we ball
Grandest granny language of english,
What does,
Name a specific variant of celtic...
14  cards
Gender Terms
Covert prestige,
Gender,
Gender exclusivelanguage
4  cards
Briefly Abandoned: Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study
How many participants did he pick,
What place was this study about h...,
Who did this norwegian study
9  cards
Gen(erational language) (+ age)
Who defined age in 3 different ways,
What are the three ways penelope ...,
Penelope eckert chronological age...
42  cards
Gen Generational and Age
Who defined age in 3 different ways,
What are the three ways penelope ...,
Penelope eckert chronological age...
9  cards
Slang (Age)
Slang broad 4,
What kind of lect would slang be,
Who came up with the idea of soci...
14  cards
Teenspeak
Who initiated and co directed thr...,
What did anna brita stenstrom do,
How did anna brita stenstrom defi...
19  cards
Ethnolect
Penelope eckert 3,
Who came up with the term ethnoli...,
Ethnolinguistic repetoire
7  cards
Accent Studies
Peter trudgill s norwich study,
Peter trudgill s norwich study,
Peter trudgill s norwich study
9  cards
Other accent and language change that I'm throwing in
The town of corby,
Which town had huge influx of sco...,
Example of scottish sounding feat...
11  cards

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