WorksheetsAICE Unit 7 Review Game (7.1-7.7)
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 16mins
The order of words in a sentence.
Lexis
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
Middle English was spoken and written language that evolved from the fusion of old English dialects and norman Celtic tribes.
True
False
The creation of new words that are usually nouns but can also be changed to verbs as in ‘to google’.
Compounding
Blending
Coinage
Derivation
There are a few ways in which words are formed. These formations may involve some sort of contraction to the word or words involved. This shortening is known as (a) .
The process by which the meaning of the word changes to become more positive.
Pejoration
Broadening
Amelioration
Coalescence
The reverse process by which the meaning of the word becomes more negative than its meaning.
Transcription
Pejoration
Narrowing
Coinage
The process by which a word expands from its original meaning and becomes more general.
Amelioration
Compounding
Blending
Broadening
State the different forms of English that have been affected by online communication.
(a)
What is a computer-mediated discourse?
The process by which the meaning of a word changes to become more positive.
Changes in graphology which are prevalent with networks and internet on the computers.
The distinctive pattern of discourse generated by computer networks.
Our culture is the sum total of ideas, customs and social behaviour of our society; all the non-biological information which we use throughout our lives.
Cultural transmission theory suggest that all language is basically learned from the ______ and a ______ environment of a person.
(a)
Language is basically a basic tool which gives it an idea that its structure are best defined by referring to the function of which the structure carries out.
Cultural Transmission Theory
Functional Theory
Theory of Lexical Gaps
Substratum Theory
Random Fluctuation Theory
Languages are expanded when coming into contact with other langauges.
English has an endless amount of letter and number combinations, so it is used to its potential in advertisements or child play.
Both models focus on the features of language and how they spread away from the original sources, both geographically and socially.
Language is unstable and changes due to that because there is always an instability in the language system, there are always random errors.
Substratum Theory
Languages are expanded when coming into contact with other languages.
Both models focus on the features of language and how they spread away from the original sources, both geographically and socially.
Language is unstable and changes due to that because there is always an instability in the language system, there are always random errors.
Language change is completely inevitable. It is something nobody can prevent and we have to accept it.
Theory of Lexical Gaps
This model focuses on the features of language and how they are spread away from the original sources, both geographically and socially.
English has an endless amount of letter and number combinations which can be used to make a plethora amount of words.
Change in language starts very limited, but then it starts to accelerate as more speakers of that language are birthed before coming to a stop as they stop adopting the language change.
Language is unstable and changes due to that because there is always an instability in the language system, there are always random errors.
Copies of spoken and written texts as they are used naturally are now stored electronically are keyed as (a) .
The information stored in a corpus compromising written texts and/or transcriptions of spoken language.
Acronyms
Assert
Diachrony
Corpus Data
A set of data or responses collected from a percentage of the whole population selected by a defined procedure is known as (a) .
A set of questions, often, but not always, containing a choice of answers that a sample of respondents will complete.
Data collection
Corpus
Questionnaire
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Data gathered which is allocated to a particular category.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Data which can be ranked in order.
Nominal
Ordinal
Ratio
Interval
Where the difference between data can be measured.
Ratio
Nominal
Interval
Ordinal
A software program which analyzes patterns from the corpus
Quotation
Microsoft
N-gram
Concordancer
A sequence of items from a sample of text which can be different in length according to the phrase being studied.
Multilingualism
Concordancer
n-gram
Creolization
