History of English Language 1

Recessive tendency in phonetics took place in …?

• Middle English

• New English

• Old English

• Ancient times

• French

Recessive tendency in the shift from …?

• Ultimate or pen-ultimate syllable to the beginning of a word

• The beginning of a word to ultimate syllable

• The middle of a word to the ultimate syllable

• French syllables to Germanic ones

• Latin syllables to Germanic ones

Great Vowel Shift took place …?

• in New English

• in Middle English

• in Old English

• in Frech

• in Latin

Old English diphthongs are …?

• eo,ea,eu

• ei,oi, au

• a, e,ei

• u, ju, a

• ou,au,ei

Old English diphthongs were …?

• independent and occurred in any position.

• dependent and couldn't occur in any position.

• nether dependent or independent

• u, ju, a

• u,au,ei

Old English Syntax word-order was …?

• relatively free

• fixed.

• absolutely free

• neither free nor fixed

• instable

Received pronunciation developed from …?

• London dialect in New English

• Kentish dialect in Middle English

• Northumbria dialect in Old English

• Northen dialect in new English

• West midland dialect

Middle English period is defined as …

• transitional period from synthetic into analytical language

• transitional period from analytical into synthetic language

• transitional period to static

• transitional period to dynamic

• neither synthetic nor analytical

Middle English phonetics was marked by …

• qualitative and quantitative changes

• Great Vowel Shift

• no changes

• great changes in the system of consonants

• neither synthetic nor analytical

New English period was marked by new social background as …

• introduction of new class called bourgeoisie

• introduction of feudalism

• introduction of socialism

• introduction of natural exchange

• neither feudalism or capitalism