Language Contact & Language Change Flashcards
1
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Diachronic change
A
Change across time
2
Q
Synchronic change
A
Change at a given time.
3
Q
Change in progress
A
Something that is possible to observe in language.
4
Q
Language contact
A
When two languages come into contact with each other.
5
Q
Intensity of contact
A
The amount of exposure people are to a different language.
6
Q
Loan words
A
Borrowed words from another language
7
Q
Language shift
A
.
8
Q
Language change
A
.
9
Q
Language death
A
.
10
Q
Language maintenance
A
.
11
Q
Shift without death
A
.
12
Q
Death without shift
A
.
13
Q
Gradual death
A
.
14
Q
Sudden death
A
.
15
Q
Radical death
A
.
16
Q
‘Bottom-to-top” death
A
.
17
Q
Pidgin
A
A language that is created by a need to communicate with a society that speaks a different language.