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| describes how a language works |
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| What did William Caxton do? |
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| brought printing press to England |
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| what did Johann Guttenburg do? |
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| brought the printing press to germany |
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| an old english storyteller |
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| a distinct version of a language |
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| What is the origin for English? |
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| The word "English" comes from what language? |
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| What was the year of the Norman Conquest? |
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| Who did William defeat at the battle of hastings? |
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| Harold with an O's forces |
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| Words formed by the first letters of several words |
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| What language is the foundation for English? |
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| What are the four components of grammar? |
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| Lexicon, semantics, syntax, phonetics |
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| What is meaning dependent on? |
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| What would be an example of a proscriptive rule? |
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| Don't use double negatives. |
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| What is psycho linguistics? |
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| the study of how the mind influences language and how language influences the mind. |
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| What is the Broca's area of the brain responsible for? |
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| What is the Wernickes area of the brain responsible for? |
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| What does the language acquisition theory need to work? |
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| Interaction and a child ages 0-5. |
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| What is socio linguistics? |
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| how society influences a language. |
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| What is a mix of languages called? |
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| Our language can be traced back to what year? |
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| When did old english go from and what is a work of literature from its time? |
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| It went from 450 to 1066 and Beowulf |
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| When did middle english go from and what is a work of literature from itz time? |
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| 1066-1500, Canterbury Tales |
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| When did modern english go from and what is a work of literature from its time? |
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| It went from 1500-now and Romeo and Juliet |
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| What was the first piece of creative literature in our language? |
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| What happened on October 14th 1066? |
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| William of Normandy defeated Harold with an O. |
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| What happened between King Henry and Thomas Beckett? |
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| King Henry was the most powerful guy in England and Thomas was his bff. When the Pope died henry made Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury with plans to rule the country together they disagreed on religion and ruling and became enemies. |
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| How did the Trojan war start? |
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| There was a beauty contest, Aphrodite bribed Paris with Helen of Sometown but Helen Menelaus was already married to Helen so uhmmm yuh. |
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| Who was Harold with an O? |
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| The last Anglo Saxon king who fought Harald at the Stamford Bridge and was defeated by William. |
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| someone who studies all aspects of a language |
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| Who was responsible for Lord Beckett's Assasination? |
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| When did the great vowel shift happen and what time era was it in? |
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| Who signed the Magna Carta? When? |
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| John the Idiot Boy and after the Norman Conquest |
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| Who was a late romantic poet who changed his name, had many wives, and was friends with the Shelleys? |
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| Lord Byron aka George Gordon |
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| Who was the guy who wrote plays and lyric poems, died after being stabbed in a barfight, wrote for the Admirals men and was admired by Shakespeare? |
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| Who was a midget who translated works and wrote the rape of the lock? |
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| Who was the person best known for being the first person to ever publish their plays, killed an actor, and was buried standing up? |
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| Why did Patroclus put on Achilles armor and fight as him? |
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| to make the greeks and trojans think Achilles was back in battle |
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| A prince, Paris's brother and Priams son, killed by Achilles. |
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| What did Shakespeare write in? What was it like? |
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| Iambic Pentameter and it had ten syllables per line. |
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