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(P2) English language: Language change

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Influences on language
Historical events 1,
Generational transfer 2,
Geographical and world language i...
7  cards
Old English (459 - 1150)
With christianity 1,
Celtic influence 2,
Latin influence 3
5  cards
Middle English (1150 - 1500)
Vocabulary 1,
Examples of anglo saxon origin 2,
Examples of anglo norman origin 3
10  cards
Early modern English
Printing 1,
Grammarians 2,
Shakespeare 3
8  cards
Lexical change
Borrowing 1,
Compounding 2,
Blending 3
11  cards
Grammatical change
Neatening 1,
Neatening of verbs 2,
450 1150 3
11  cards
Phonological change
Fricatives 1,
In the 18th century 2,
Sh partner 3
6  cards
Semantic change
Neosemy 1,
Broadening 2,
Narrowing 3
9  cards
Orthographic change
There are many difficulties with ...,
The alphabet 2,
Caxton 3
5  cards
Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism
Prescriptivists 1,
Descriptivists 2,
David crystal descriptivist 3
6  cards
Aitchson's metaphors
Outline 1,
1 the crumbling castle 2,
2 the infectious disease 3
5  cards
Random fluctuation and Cultural transmission
Hockett 1958 1,
Contextual factors 2
2  cards
Substratum theory
Outline 1,
William labov 2
2  cards
Functional theory
Outline 1,
Extinct 2,
New words 3
4  cards
Wave and S-curve models
Chen 1968 and 1972 s curve 1,
Bailey 1973 wave 2,
Results 3
3  cards
Sapir & Whorf theory
Linguistic reflectionism 1,
Linguistic determinism their hypo...,
Linguistic relativity 3
4  cards
Standardisation
Haugen 1966 1,
1 selection 2,
2 codification 3
5  cards

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