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5 things that change pronunciation:
1. Contact with other Languages
2. Ease of Pronunciation
3. Analogy
4. Spelling Pronunciation
5. Reinterpretation
/kn/ hasn't existed in English for hundreds of years, but interaction with Yiddish is bringing it back. This is an example of:
Contact with other Languages.
What are 2 elements of Analogy?
Morphology & Phonology
A kid saying "runned" because he heard other preterit verbs end in "-ed" is an example of
Analogy (morphology)
People saying "nucular" instead of "nuclear" since there are more words in English ending with "-ular" is an example of:
Analogy (phonology)
List 6 examples of Spelling Pronunciation.
1. victuals
2. clapboard
3. cupboard
4. breeches
5. Greenwich
6. Gotham
The present pronunciations of Theodore, Matthew, and Anthony are examples of
Spelling Pronunciation.
Reinterpretation
When people begin to think of a form in a new/different way.
What are 3 kinds of Reinterpretation?
1. Internal Open Juncture (word border confusion)
2. Folk Etymology
3. Hyper Correction
For what reason does "love" mean "zero" in tennis?
Reinterpretation, Folk Etymology; ("L'oeuf" means "the egg" in French.)
Folk Etymology
When you make an assumption about the meaning of a word and change the pronunciation accordingly.
The word "hangnail," deriving from "angnail" is an example of:
Folk Etymology.
The word "helpmate" is an example of:
Folk Etymology.
The fact that some people pronounce "ampitheater" as "ample-theater" or "ampli-theater" is an example of:
Folk Etymology.
The fact that some people say "very close veins" instead of "varicose veins" is an example of:
Folk Etymology.
Alzheimer's disease being called "old-timer's disease" is an example of:
Folk Etymology.
When you are constantly corrected for saying "fark" instead of "fork," and then you start saying "born" instead of "barn" is an example of
Hyper-correction
Rule Ordering
The "rules" that govern the order in which Phonological Processes occur with in a word.
In the word "handkerchief" which occurs first: Segment Deletion or Assimilation?
Segment Deletion; (has to occur first for the Assimilation to occur first; we then delte the /d/ then velar-ize the /n/ because of the /k/)
According to Rule Ordering which occurs first: Segment Deletion or Assimilation?
Segment Deletion.