GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMS Match the terms with the definitions below: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Code switching Calque Continuum Isogloss Voseo Ellipsis Assibilation 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Seseo/ceceo Leismo/Laismo Lenition Evidentiality Clitic Zeismo/rehilamiento Yeismo

a. a dialectal variation in the Spanish language that occurs largely in Spain. It involves using the indirect object pronoun le in place of the (standard) masculine direct object pronoun lo, especially when the direct object refers to a male person. b. a kind of sound change that alters consonants, making them "weaker" in some way. c. the opposition between dialects that distinguish the phonemes // and /s/, and those that exhibit merger of the two sounds (neutralization) into either /s/ (seseo) or // (ceceo). d. the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement that is grammatically marked in some languages; that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and/or what kind of evidence exists. e. a distinctive feature of many dialects of the Spanish language, which consists of the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme // (written ll) and its merger into the phoneme // (written y), usually realized as a palatal fricative or affricate. In other words, ll and y represent the same sound //. f. the term for a sound change resulting in a sibilant consonant, such as /s/. g. the use of the second person singular pronoun vos in many dialects of Spanish. h. the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature. i. a range of dialects spoken across some geographical area that differ only slightly between neighbouring areas, but as one travels in any direction, these differences accumulate such that speakers from opposite ends do not understand each other. j. a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word or root-forroot translation. k. the concurrent use of more than one language, or language variety, in conversation. l. omission of a word, sentence, sound, etc. m. a term used in grammar to refer to a fortm which resembles a word, but which cannot stand on its own as a normal utterance, being phonologically dependent dependent upon a neighbouring word in a construction. n. Merging of the palatal lateral phoneme // and palatal approximant /j/ which is generally pronounced as a postalveolar fricative, either voiced [] or voiceless [] in the River Plate region of South America. Answers: 1k, 2j, 3i, 4h, 5g, 6l, 7f, 8c, 9a, 10b, 11d, 12m, 13n, 14e