L&L (Week 3)

A type of sound change in which a back vowel is fronted or a front vowel is raised if the following syllable contains i is called...

(a)  

What tribe didn't inhabit Britain in the Old English Period?

• Goths

• Picts

• Frisians

• Angles

The diacritic about the letter ā is called

(a)  

Знать среднеанглийского периода поощряла широкое заимствование французских слов, поэтому многие из современных английских слов имеют англо-нормандские корни. Английские же эквиваленты не имели официального статуса и регулирования.

What is the Great Vowel Shift?

What dialect was considered to be the standard of the Middle English period

(a)  

This King lost Normandy to French.

• Alfred

• John

• Edward

• William

What year is considered to be the end of Middle English period

• 1066

• 1457

• 1500

• 1666

The method of comparative philology was proposed by

(a)  

What is the object of sociolinguistics?