Language Contact & Language Change

Question 1

Diachronic change

Answer 1

Change across time

Question 2

Synchronic change

Answer 2

Change at a given time.

Question 3

Change in progress

Answer 3

Something that is possible to observe in language.

Question 4

Language contact

Answer 4

When two languages come into contact with each other.

Question 5

Intensity of contact

Answer 5

The amount of exposure people are to a different language.

Question 6

Loan words

Answer 6

Borrowed words from another language

Question 7

Language shift

Answer 7

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Question 8

Language change

Answer 8

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Question 9

Language death

Answer 9

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Question 10

Language maintenance

Answer 10

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Question 11

Shift without death

Answer 11

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Question 12

Death without shift

Answer 12

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Question 13

Gradual death

Answer 13

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Question 14

Sudden death

Answer 14

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Question 15

Radical death

Answer 15

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Question 16

‘Bottom-to-top” death

Answer 16

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Question 17

Pidgin

Answer 17

A language that is created by a need to communicate with a society that speaks a different language.

Question 18

Creole

Answer 18

The later stage of a pidgin where children of the language creators adopt the language and it becomes a language of the family.

Question 19

Basilect

Answer 19

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Question 20

Mesolect

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Question 21

Acrolect

Answer 21

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Question 22

Superstratum

Answer 22

The language that provides most of the vocabulary and lexical items in a pidgin.

Question 23

Substratum

Answer 23

The language that provides most of the morphological and syntactical items in a pidgin.

Question 24

Jargon phase

Answer 24

First stage of a pidgin.

Question 25

Expanded Pidgen

Answer 25

3rd stage of a pidgin

Question 26

Stable pidgin

Answer 26

2nd stage of a pidgin.

Question 27

Plantation creole

Answer 27

A type of creole that comes from plantation pidgin.

Question 28

Lexifer language

Answer 28

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Question 29

Lingua Franca

Answer 29

Language used in a community of multilinguals so everyone can communicate.

Question 30

Diglossia

Answer 30

When more than one language exist in a society with hierarchical relationships

Question 31

Ethnolect

Answer 31

Varieties of language used by a particular group with a different linguistic background.

Question 32

African American English

Answer 32

An ethnolect

Question 33

Vernacular

Answer 33

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Question 34

Intervocalic /r/

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Question 35

Shibboleth

Answer 35

Minimal pair in two varieties of a language

Question 36

Dialectology

Answer 36

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Question 37

Diphthong

Answer 37

Two part vowel

Question 38

Virtual speech community

Answer 38

English on the internet

Question 39

H-variety

Answer 39

High valued language in diglossic society

Question 40

L-variety

Answer 40

Low status variety in diglossic society.

Question 41

Oberwart Study

Answer 41

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Question 42

Exogamy

Answer 42

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Question 43

Solidarity

Answer 43

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