1) During the period of Old English, the language changed considerably, It took in many words from…, the language of the Church a) Latin b) Italian c) English d) French 2) … was a language chat had case endings on nouns. a) Modern English b) New English c) Old English d) Middle English 3) William the Conqueror was a native speaker of… a) English b) French c) Italian d) German 4) The upper classes spoke … and the lower classes spoke... a) French, English b) English, French c) Italian, English d) French, Italian 5) The period known as the Modern English period begins in … a) 1400 b) 1600 c) 1250 d) 1500 6) ... is the study of the sound system of a language a) Morphology b) Phonology c) Syntax  d) Phonetic 7) A ... is one of the smallest units of speech that make one word different from another word a) Allophone b) Morpheme c) Phoneme d) Phones 8) An ... is one of two or more variations of the sound of the same phoneme a) Allophone b) Phoneme c) Morpheme d) Phones 9) The ... was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700 a) Pronunciation Evolution b) Syllabic Transformation  c) Phonetic Revolution  d) Great Vowel Shift 10) Every language has rules that tell you where allophones appear in words ... a) Rules of abbreviation b) Rules of distribution c) Rules of discretion d) Rules of avoidance 11) What is the main focus of the text at the beginning? a) Language change over time b) The language changes frequently c) The language rarely changes d) The language does not change 12) Why do people need to add new words to their language, according to the text? a) To talk about old things b) To describe emerging concepts and phenomena c) To talk about new things d) To articulate evolving social and cultural trends 13) What is described as an external factor influencing language change in the text? a) Cultural exchange and interaction b) Cross-cultural encounters and assimilation c) External influences like colonization d) Immigration and invasion 14) Which term is used to describe the change from irregular to regular morphology in the text? a) Regularization through analogic changes b) Analogic leveling c) Morphological regularization d) Morphemic standardization 15) How does the text describe the role of stress in language change? a) Stress may move from one syllable to another b) Stress may not move from one syllable to another c) Stress may shift between syllables d) Stress may move from one word to another

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