Women in Western countries at least appear to be more status-conscious and sensitive to the social significance of certain linguistic variables.

State briefly your understanding of the differences between the term acquisition and the term learning in language acquisition study?

utterance meaning

Explain the Great Vowel Shift in the history of English, and give at least two examples of both Middle English and Modern English in phonetic transcription.

narrow transcription

arbitrariness

allophone

sentence meaning

grammatical meaning

telegraphic speech

syntactic movement