Sound Change
A change in the order of sounds is which type of sound change?
Metathesis
These words are examples of what?
Flu
Dorm
Gas
Clipping
Influenza > Flu
Dormitory > Dorm
Gasoline > Gas
What is syntax?
organization of words and morphemes into phrases and sentences
How are the meaning of words defined?
The set of appropriate contexts a word can be used in
Which of the following is NOT an example of a type of sound change:
Dissimilation
Monophthongization
Clipping
Insertion
Clipping
Correctly read this proportion and fill in the X:
Resurrection : Resurrect :: Donation : X
Resurrection is to resurrect as donation is to donate
In Modern English, does a possessive usually come before or after the noun?
Before
If vehicles came to only refer to cars, that would be an example of which type of semantic change?
Reduction
The change in pronunciation of the a from [a] to [æ] in words like past, glass, act is what type of sound change?
Fronting and Backing
Name the two types of morphological change that eliminate irregularity among morphologically related forms.
Proportional analogy and paradigm leveling
Change this Old English form into Modern English:
"Where went he?"
"Where did he go?"
Villian used to refer to a farmhand, meaning this type of semantic change has occured
Degradation