The method of _r_______ of a parent language from a comparison of its daughter languages is called the comparative method.

Describe the distinctive features of Black English in its syntactic system by using examples.

In some dialects of English, the word “ask” is pronounced [?ks], and children’s speech shows a number of cases of sound movement, for example, “aminal” for “animal”. Now explain sound movement by giving examples. State the difference between sound movement and sound addition by examples.

Broca’s area

euphemism

expressives

behaviourism as a semantic view

stylistic synonyms

major lexical category

free morpheme

synchronic study