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