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Language Contact & Language Change Flashcards

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Diachronic change

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Change across time

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Synchronic change

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Change at a given time.

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Change in progress

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Something that is possible to observe in language.

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Language contact

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When two languages come into contact with each other.

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Intensity of contact

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The amount of exposure people are to a different language.

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Loan words

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Borrowed words from another language

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Language shift

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8
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Language change

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Language death

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Language maintenance

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Shift without death

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Death without shift

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Gradual death

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Sudden death

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Radical death

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‘Bottom-to-top” death

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Pidgin

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A language that is created by a need to communicate with a society that speaks a different language.

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Creole

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The later stage of a pidgin where children of the language creators adopt the language and it becomes a language of the family.

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Basilect

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Mesolect

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Acrolect

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Superstratum

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The language that provides most of the vocabulary and lexical items in a pidgin.

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Substratum

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The language that provides most of the morphological and syntactical items in a pidgin.

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Jargon phase

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First stage of a pidgin.

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Expanded Pidgen

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3rd stage of a pidgin

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Stable pidgin

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2nd stage of a pidgin.

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Plantation creole

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A type of creole that comes from plantation pidgin.

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Lexifer language

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Lingua Franca

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Language used in a community of multilinguals so everyone can communicate.

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Diglossia

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When more than one language exist in a society with hierarchical relationships

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Ethnolect

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Varieties of language used by a particular group with a different linguistic background.

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African American English

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An ethnolect

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Vernacular

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Intervocalic /r/

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Shibboleth

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Minimal pair in two varieties of a language

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Dialectology

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Diphthong

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Two part vowel

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Virtual speech community

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English on the internet

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H-variety

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High valued language in diglossic society

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L-variety

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Low status variety in diglossic society.

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Oberwart Study

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Exogamy

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Solidarity

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