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By analogy to the plural formation of the word “dog-s”, speakers started saying “cows” as the plural of “cow” instead of the earlier plural “kine”. This is the case of _________.

A. elaboration
B. external borrowing
C. sound assimilation
D. internal borrowing

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The most dramatic morphological loss concerns the loss of ________.

A. comparative markers
B. tense markers
C. gender and case markers
D. none of the above

In Old and Middle English, both /k/ and /n/ in the word “knight” were pronounced, but in modern English, /k/ in the sound /kn-/ clusters was not pronounced. This phenomenon is known as ________.

A. sound addition
B. sound loss
C. sound shift
D. sound movement

Historical linguistics explores _____________.

A. the nature of language change
B. the causes that lead to language change
C. the relationship between languages
D. all of the above

It takes a longer period of time for a word to be created than to be lost.

A. 对
B. 错

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