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The major phonological change in the history of English known as the Great Vowel Shift involves seven long, or t______, vowels of Middle English.

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Linguistics refers to the ______ study of a language or languages at a single point in time, without reference to earlier or later stages.

A. Diachronic
B. Synchronic
C. Historical
D. Comparative

In a sense, humans can be said to be biologically programmed to acquire at least one language. What is meant by this ______ view of language acquisition is that humans are equipped with the neural prerequisites for language and language use.

A. behaviorist
B. nativist
C. mentalist
D. empiricist

Componential analysis is based on the belief that the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components, called s______ features.

The limited range of sounds which are meaningful in human linguistic communication and are of interest to linguistic studies are called the p______ medium of language.

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