Best of British English
This was a British author responsible for writing The Canterbury Tales in the Middle Ages.
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
This linguistic theory suggests that people acquire language through a deity or some other spiritual being.
What is the divine source theory?
What is slang?
English is a part of which language family tree?
What is the Proto-Indo-European language tree?
This linguist is interested in how Black students in the U.S. use and navigate AAVE/Black English in schools.
Who is Dr. April Baker Bell?
This Romance language helped developed certain pronunciations and spellings for British English words.
What is French?
This linguistic theory suggests that people acquired language through intonation and various melodies.
What is the musical source theory?
Tok Pisin and Louisiana French are what type of languages?
What are creoles?
This is the specific linguistic study of language history and change.
What is philology?
This linguist created a book that talks about language in the context of the internet.
Who is Gretchen McCulloch?
This is a type of linguistic process where the [h] sound in words typically get dropped in British English.
What is non-rhotic speech?
This linguistic theory about language acquisition suggests that humans used sounds from nature in order to communicate with others.
What is the "bow-wow" theory?
This is the linguistic idea that our languages help shape how we think.
What is language determinism?
This specific lens of studying language is confined to just a specific language and its various social groups.
What is synchronic variation?
This linguist created a dictionary suitable for American audiences and tastes in 1828.
Who is Noah Webster?
In the southern UK and Wales, vowel sounds are typically pronounced with this intonation.
What are tall vowels?
This linguistic theory suggests that humans learned how to communicate by making noises when doing collaborative labor or when cursing.
What is the "Yo-He-Ho" theory?
Words in English such as shirt, shoes, table, and flowers are what kind of classifier?
What are countable classifiers?
This specific lens of studying language encompasses a whole language's history.
What is diachronic variation?
This linguist is responsible for doing the /r/ study at various department stores in NYC in the 1960s.
Who is William Labov?
In British English, these specific nouns get pluralized when used with a verb and with another noun.
What are collective and compound nouns?
This linguistic theory suggests that humans learned language in part of their physical features.
What is the physical adaptation source?
Words in English such as paradigm, transparent, solitude, and inquiry are what kind of classifiers?
What are non-countable classifiers?
The Majority Principle and the Most Natural Development Principle fall under what kind of language study?
What is comparative reconstruction?
These two linguists helped formulate a hypothesis that theorizes that the structure of grammar of various languages shapes peoples' ideas of the world.
Who is Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf?