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The great vowel shift, GVS, is a change in the vowel inventory of English. Before the GVS, the English vowel system was similar to that of other West Germanic Languages. The shift lead to the raising of t...

There are 7 main word classes, so let’s focus on those for now. They are: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Prepositions and Determiners. You can work out which class a word belongs to using bo...

When learning to speak, children frequently make a variety of phonological mistakes, often due to difficulties with the pronunciation of certain words. These mistakes can be identified and placed into cat...

The dominance approach focuses on the ways in which men were seen as controlling and dominating in mixed-sex interactions. Zimmerman and West (1975) found that 96% of all interruptions in mixed-sex conver...

There are four different types of aspect in English: simple, perfect, progressive and perfect progressive. The perfect aspect is used for actions that have been completed, while the progressive shows that...