Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.
Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.
Physiologically, vowels tend to be n before nasal consonants because it is difficult to time the lowering of the velum to produce nasality with the consonant articulation.
Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration.
sound assimilation
Directions: Explain the following terms and give examples for illustration where appropriate.
cognate
（）occurs when one language takes a word or morpheme from another language and adds it to its lexicon.
The major phonological change in the history of English known as the Great Vowel Shift involves seven （）, or tense, vowels of Middle English.
In the historical development of language, sound change is inevitable, such as sound loss, sound （）and sound movement.
In general, linguistic change in the （ ）system and the vocabulary of a language is more noticeable than that in other systems of the grammar.
Linguistic change occurs in all c of the grammar.
The word “smog” entered the English via a word formation rule called（ ）.
Directions ： Fill in the blank in each of the following state ments with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a due. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.
The major phonological change in the history of English known as the Great Vowel Shift involves seven long，or t ,vowels of Middle English.
Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false on the ANSWER SHEET. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and then give the correct version.
Linguistic change occurs in all components of the grammar, including changes in the sound, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and semantic systems.
All the following words except（ ） are the examples which can be used to illustrate semantic broadening.
All the following words except（ ）are the examples which can be used to illustrate semantic narrowing.
Grimm’s Law
Grimm’s Law can be expressed in terms of natural classes of speech sounds: voiced aspirates become unaspirated; voiced stops become voiceless; voiceless stops become （）.
Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put T for true or F for false in the bracket in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version.
Regularization of exceptional plural forms of nouns constantly occurs. By analogy to foe/foes, and dog/dogs, English speakers started saying cows as the plural of cow instead of the earlier plural kine. This analogical change does not occur when words are borrowed from foreign languages.
（）linguistics are concerned with the historical development of languages and the processes involved in language change. They look into the nature of language change and the causes that lead to language change.
The following are the major topics of historical linguistics EXCEPT （ ）.
The major topics of historical linguistics do NOT include（）.
before nasal consonants because it is difficult to time the lowering of the velum to produce nasality with the consonant articulation.