Changing English Language
In this year, the printing press was introduced to England by the printer William Caxton.
What is 1476?
The symbol (.) represents this in speech transcription.
What is a micropause?
Developed the LAD theory.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
The percentage of the global information stored in computers that is in English.
What is 80%?
Who is Kimberly Bhotia?
In this year, Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language.
What is 1755?
In terms of speech, these features comprise intonation, stress, tone and speed.
What are prosodic features?
Developed the Behaviourist Theory.
The first name of the person who developed Kachru's Circles.
What is Braj?
The person most likely to need a box of tissues in the class.
Who is Destiny van Rooij?
What is coalescence?
The lingustic word for polite ice-breakers.
What is phatic communication?
Developed the Theory of Cognitive Development.
Two or more distinct languages merge to form a new variety with its own native speakers.
The person with a perfectly lovely voice but rarely ever uses it in English Class.
Who is Eunseo (Jaydin) Yu?
Early Modern English, these nouns were no longer associated with male or female.
What is neuter?
Words for categories of things.
What is hypernyms?
Developed the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
The difference between slang and jargon.
What is slang is not considered to be Standard English and jargon is?
The person we mostly turn to when we need to know something in German.
Who is Jakey Vokuhl?
In terms of the Changing English Language, the abbreviation CMD refers to this.
What is Computer-Related Discourse?
Expressions with non-literal meanings.
What are idioms?
Developed the idea of the LASS.
Who is Jerome Bruner?
Developed the idea of the restricted and elaborated codes.
Who is Basil Bernstein?
The person in our class most likely to sort Mr. Wilson's lack of computer skills.
Who is Caleb Kim?