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Historical Linguistics Flashcards

1
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What are the 4 stages of english?

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Old, Middle, Early Modern, Modern

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What is regressive assimilation?

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Loss of the nasal consonant

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What is umlaut (aka vowel harmony)?

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When the vowel in one syllable influences the vowel in another

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What is it called when you lose a sound at the beginning of the word?

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Apheresis

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“cot” and “caught” used to sound different. What is the process of them becoming more phonologically similar called?

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merging

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consonant deletion and vowel insertion are examples of ___

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articulatory simplification

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7
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____ reflects the preference of speakers for regular patterns over irregular ones

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analogy

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hamburger is an example of

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reanalysis

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When did the Great Vowel Shift occur?

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Around 1500– during the time of the Black Plague

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What are two methods of affix addition?

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borrowing – taking an affix from another language

grammaticalization – taking a lexical item and weakening its lexical properties

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What are two methods of affix deletion?

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final consonant deletion

vowel deletion

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The process of overgeneralizing particular rules in a language/dialect you don’t know very well is called

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hypercorrection

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13
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sequential change involving place or manner articulation is called ___

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partial assimilation

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sequential change involving the effect of front vowels and [j] on velar, alveolar and dental stops is called ___

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palatalization

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15
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palatalization is a kind of ___

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assimilation

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sequential change involving a nasal consonant and its adjacent vowel is called ___

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nasalization

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sequential change involving the vowel from one syllable and its effect on a vowel in another syllable is called ___

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umlaut

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18
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the 4 types of assimilation are:

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partial assimilation, palatalization, nasalization, umlaut

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the process whereby one segment is made less like another segment in its environment is called __

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dissimilation

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20
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the insertion of a consonant/vowel into a particular environment is called __

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epenthesis

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21
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the change in relative positioning of segments is called __

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metathesis

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22
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vowel deletion that involves a word-final vowel is called __

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apocope

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23
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vowel deletion that involves a word-internal vowel is called

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syncope

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24
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the step that precedes vowel deletion is called __

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vowel reduction

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what is a common example of consonant deletion in english?

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many things starting with k – knee, knight, etc.

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26
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the weakening term that involves change of [z] to [r] is called ___

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rhotacism

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27
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the term that involves changing a glide to an affricate is called ___

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consonantal strengthening

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28
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what is the term for the phonological change of adding a phoneme?

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splitting

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29
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what is the term for the phonological change of moving around the organization of phonemes in a word?

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shifting

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30
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what is the term for a word’s meaning changing to become more positive?

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amelioration

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what is the term for a word’s meaning changing to become more positive?

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pejoration

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what is the term for a word’s meaning changing to become weaker?

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weakening

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33
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what is the term for a word’s meaning changing to become more inclusive?

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broadening

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34
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what is the term for a word’s meaning changing to become more exclusive?

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narrowing

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35
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what is the term for a word’s meaning changing to lose its original meaning & take on a new one?

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semantic shift

36
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what is the term for the change in stress patterns of a word to change its meaning?

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lexical diffusion

37
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substratum lexical change is

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by the dominated group

38
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superstratum lexical change is

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by the dominating group

39
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adstratum lexical change is

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between two equal groups

40
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(more/less) frequent words catch on more easily during lexical diffusion

41
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changes that are associated with an (upper/lower) class catch on more easily during lexical diffusion

42
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what is the most reliable sign of family relationships between languages?

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systematic phonetic correspondences

43
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words that have descended from a common source are called __

44
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what is the process of linking two words back to a common etymon by observing phonetic processes?

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phonetic plausibility

45
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what is the process of picking an etymon based on the one that is found in most languages in that family?

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majority rules

46
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Does phonetic plausibility or majority rules take precedece over the other?

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phonetic plausibility

47
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palatalization is common before ___

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front vowels

48
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Do voiced consonants lose their voicing between vowels?

49
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Do voiced consonants often become fricatives?

50
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What is the difference between reconstruction and internal reconstruction?

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Internal reconstruction happens within the same languages while reconstruction happens across languagaes

51
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Who was Rask?

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One of the key discoverers of Indo-European

52
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What is Grimm’s Law?

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a special set of consonant shifts that affected the change from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic

53
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What did neo-grammarians argue? What was the problem?

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that sound laws operate without exception, but they paid no attention to social factors or bilingualism

54
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What is it called when you add a letter to a word?

55
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what is it called when you delete a letter from a word?

56
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what is it called when you change the order of letters in a word?

A

metathesis

57
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what is it called when you change a consonant from voiceless to voiced?

58
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what is it called when a vowel influences another vowel in the word?

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umlaut / vowel harmony

59
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what is it called when a voiced vowel makes a voiceless consonant become voiced?

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voice assimilation

60
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what is it called when a vowel becomes schwa?

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vowel reduction

61
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what is the most common syllable structure?

62
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what are spoonerisms?

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slips of the tongue that involve the switching of letters in sentences

63
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what is classified as a positive priming effect?

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when the prime and the target are related in our minds

64
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we focus on groups of __-__ words before saccading to the next group

65
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we focus on groups of words for about ___ sec. before saccading.

66
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Is N-400 lexical or grammatical?

67
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Is P-600 lexical or grammatical?

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grammatical

68
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what is bottom-up processing?

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individual units

69
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what is top-down processing?

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overall meaning

70
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what is it called when words beginning with the same phonemes are grouped together?

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cohort model

71
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what is late closure?

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when you feel inclined to attach a noun to the current clause

72
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what is minimal attachment?

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it assumes the smallest Noun phrases, or minimal embedding.

73
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the brain weighs about ___

74
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the brain has about 10-100 ____ neurons

75
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the 2 hemispheres are joined by the ______

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corpus callosum

76
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Is language more or less lateralized for Left Handers?

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less lateralized

77
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Broca’s Area is in the ____ lobe and is involved in language _____.

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frontal, production

78
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Wernicke’s area is in the ____ lobe and is involved in language _____/

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temporal, comprehension

79
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Which type of brain monitoring involves glucose in the blood stream?

80
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Which type of brain monitoring involves iron in the blood stream?

81
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Which type of brain monitoring is the most accurate?

82
Q

the angular gyrus plays an important role in ___

83
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Which type of brain monitoring involves slices of the brain?

84
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What is the silence between words in Broca’s aphasics called?

A

dysprosody

85
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Omission of “little words” in Broca’s aphasics is called __

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telegraphic speech

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