vocab

Question 1

register

Answer 1

the way you use language differently depending on the context

Question 2

fossilization

Answer 2

an error that hasn’t been corrected and becomes part of language

Question 3

dialect

Answer 3

variations of one language that differ in vocab and accent

Question 4

accent

Answer 4

different way of pronouncing words, particularly vowels

Question 5

pidgin

Answer 5

when speakers of 2 different languages use parts of each language to communicate

Question 6

creole

Answer 6

when a pidgin language becomes the home language

Question 7

diagraph

Answer 7

two letters that together make only one sound

Question 8

blend

Answer 8

letters that are together and make 2 or more sounds

Question 9

semantics

Answer 9

the meaning of language

Question 10

pragmatics

Answer 10

the meaning of language based on the context

Question 11

syntax

Answer 11

the arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language

Question 12

phonology

Answer 12

the system of relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language

Question 13

morphology

Answer 13

the study of the forms of words (inflection, compounding, derivation etc)

Question 14

voiced consonants

Answer 14

z j v g b l th

Question 15

voiceless consonants

Answer 15

k s th p f ch sh

Question 16

lingua franca

Answer 16

when speakers of two different languages use a common 3rd language to communicate