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4th Grade
05/03/2011

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In What four seperate periods has English Borrowed vocab from latin? Examples.
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Germanic-pit, street, mile, cheap, wine dish
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Latin Words? Four periods?
Definition

Germanic-pit mile, street

Latin Religion (597)-Alter/ angel/candle/ deacon

Renaissance (1600)-Anatomy/fictitious

French/Latin-Parliament/ esoteric

 

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Inkhorn Terms
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lasting terms-discretion/ exaggerate/expect

didnt last-contund/effodicate

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Inflectional and Derivational?
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Derivational-adding on to a base

All prefixes are derivational

Inflectional-Eight Inflectional (suffixes)

s, s, s, ing, ed, en, er, est

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Dialect/Accent/Standard
Definition

Dialect-pronunciation, grammar, and lexis

Accent-Refers to a variety of language characterized in terms of pronunciation only

 

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Pittsburghese-Phonological/Grammatical/lexical

 

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Phonological-aught instead of out

da instead of the

Spelling-City Chicken/Chipped Ham/Buggy/Crudded Milk

Grammer-Positive Anymore/ Leave him go outside/ Yins (you)

 

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2 social factors that reduce dialect differences?
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communication/ effects of urbanization have contributed to dialect leveling. Loss of original traditional dialectal distinctions.
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