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Jacobsen 2nd Test
Dr. J's Second Test
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Undergraduate 3
10/20/2015

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Term
Phonology
Definition
The scientific study of the sounds produced in a given language
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Morphology
Definition
The study of the combinations of stems and affixes to make words
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Syntax
Definition
The study of sentence order
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Semantics
Definition
The study of words, word meaning, and word history
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Analytic Language
Definition
A language whose understanding comes from word order. Also known as syntactic.
Example: English
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Synthetic Language
Definition
A language whose understanding comes from word inflections indicating gender, tense,or quantity. Also known as Inflectional language.
Example: Spanish and Latin
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Artificial Language
Definition
A created or constructed language that was not naturally derived from a parent language.
Example: Esperanto
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English Parent Language
Definition
Proto Indo European
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How do linguists know about PIE?
Definition
Historical reconstruction using clues and commonalities between similar languages.
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West Germanic
Definition
The branch of the Germanic group of PIE that English belongs, including German and Dutch.
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North Germanic
Definition
The subdivision of the Germanic branch of PIE languages consisting of Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Old Norse.
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East Germanic
Definition
The now extinct branch of Germanic branch of PIE that included Gothic.
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449 A.D.
Definition
The birth of English
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597 A.D.
Definition
Christianization begins
First Period of borrowing from Latin
450 loan words
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878 A.D.
Definition
Treaty of Wedmore establishes Danelaw
More and 1000 words added
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1000 A.D.
Definition
Oldest copy of Beowulf on record
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Sounds added in Old English
Definition
[č], [j], and [š]
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Front Mutations
Definition
The change affecting the pronunciation of vowels, simplifying the complex stream of dipthongs into the more recognizable vowels we have today.
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Fixed Initial Stress
Definition
The quality of the language that has with few exceptions the first syllable of a given word stressed.
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Declension
Definition
Inflecting nouns to add tense, gender, numbers or conjugating verbs to add tense, aspect or mood.
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Compounding
Definition
Creating a new word with a new meaning by placing two words together. Wait+list=waitlist
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Affixation
Definition
Forming different words by adding new morphemes to existing words. Waitlist becomes waitlisted, waitlister, waitlistee
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Primary source of Old English Data
Definition
West Saxon Dialect
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1066 A.D.
Definition
Invasion of the Normons
adds 10,000 French words
brings about feudalism
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1337 A.D. - 1453 A.D.
Definition
100 years war
Brings end to french rule
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1400 A.D.
Definition
Chaucer dies
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Sounds added in Middle English
Definition
[v], [ð], and [z]
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Biggest change in middle English phonology
Definition
Reduction and Loss of Inflectional Suffixes
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Biggest change in middle English morphology
Definition
The loss of inflectional morphology
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Quasi-modal verb
Definition
auxiliary verb added in middle English that act as both verbs and modal verbs.
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Noun adjuncts
Definition
Middle English addition where nouns were used to modify nouns. Apple+Tree=Appletree
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1476 A.D.
Definition
Creation of the Printing press
The London dialect becomes standard
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1600 A.D.
Definition
Shakespeare is the most renowned author
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Sounds added in Early Modern English
Definition
[ž] and [ŋ]
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Great Vowel Shift
Definition
Early Modern English shift in language that changed the pronunciation of long vowels
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Biggest change in early modern english syntax
Definition
The Rigid subject verb object form sets
Other phrase structures set
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Ink Horn Terms
Definition
Words from Greek and Latin borrowed through literature in Early Modern English thanks to the printing press
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Functional shift
Definition
Using a word from one part of speech as another part of speech. I am an adult. I will adult.
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Inner Circle
Definition
Country's that natively speak English as the primary language. UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa
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Dental Preterit
Definition
Ending a past tense word with -ed
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Pigeon Language
Definition
A contact language formed when two languages meet.
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Creole
Definition
When a pigeon language becomes the first and native language of a new generation.
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