The questions in this quiz are from The Study of Language (THIRD EDITION) book written by GEORGE YULE.
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#1. a semantic change in which a word is used with a more general meaning
#2. What is the influences from the outside that cause changes in a language?
#3. the hypothesized original form of a language that was the source of many languages in India and Europe
#4. What are the words in different languages that have a similar form and meaning?
#5. a sound change involving the reversal in position of two sounds
#6. a sound change involving the addition of a sound to the beginning of a word
#7. in comparative reconstruction, the choice of older versus newer forms on the basis of commonly observed types of sound change
#8. in comparative reconstruction, the choice of the form that occurs more often than any other form in the set of descendant languages
#9. What is the form of English in use before 1100?
#10. differences in language form found in different places at the same time
#11. What is the form of English in use between 1100 and 1500?
#12. change in a language that is not caused by outside influence
#13. the creation of the original form of an ancestor language on the basis of comparable forms in languages that are descendants
#14. What is the study of language history and change?
#15. differences resulting from change over a period of time
#16. a semantic change in which a word is used with a less general meaning
#17. a sound change involving the addition of a sound to a word
