Cset Single Subject English Subset Ii

Front 1

What was an effect the Great Vowel Shift had on English language?

Back 1

The spelling of certain vowel sounds no longer corresponded to the pronunciation of those sounds.

Ex. "Same" use to be pronounced like "psalm"

Front 2

Describe "Universal Grammar"

Back 2

A set of general principles to follow when writing or speaking in a formal setting.

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Creolization

Back 3

The development of a language through
the merging of two or more different languages.

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Hypercorrection

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The erroneous use of a word form or pronunciation based on a false analogy with a correct or prestigious form

Ex. "Between you and I" for the standard "between you and me."

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Back-Formation

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Removing a portion of a word to create a new word.

Ex. Arch from Archer

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Deep Structure

Back 6

You can have different phrases that mean the same thing.

Ex. "Pat loves Chris" and "Chris is loved by Pat" mean roughly the same thing and use similar words.

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Morpheme

Back 7

The smallest unit of meaning in a language.

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Syntactic Unit

Back 8

A phrase, clause, or sentence.

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Phoneme

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The sounds of letters.

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Grapheme

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A letter or a number of letters that represent a sound in a word.

Ex. 1 letter grapheme: c a t. The sounds /k/ is represented by the letter ‘c’.

Ex. 2 letter grapheme: l ea f. The sound /ee/ is represented by by the letters ‘e a’.

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Overt Inflectional Ending

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A word whose suffix doesn't change the type of speech of the base word.

Ex. Pretends and Pretend are both verbs

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Derivational Suffix

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A suffix that changes the base word into a different type of speech.

Ex. -ly changes a word into an adverb.

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Pragmatics

Back 13

The branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used, including such matters as taking turns in conversation, text organization, utterances, and implicature.

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The Critical Period Hypothesis

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States that humans' ability to
learn language peaks during early childhood.

Research shows that second-language learners under the age
of 15 years attain greater proficiency in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and comprehension than do
adult second-language learners.

Suggests that one reason for this difference
in language learning capability is that the brain's language faculty either stops functioning or becomes less
accessible after the critical period has ended.

As a result, adults must use other cognitive mechanisms to
acquire language.