LIN203H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Morphophonology, Record Producer, Genitive Case
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English places second or third in terms of number of native speakers (mandarin is first) English has a huge vocabulary about 500 000 words, compared with second-largest. About 70% made up of loanwords (borrowed from other languages) but in any given sentence, percentage is smaller due to grammatical structure. According to some estimates, as much as seventy percent of the vocabulary of. English (but a smaller percentage of the most frequently used words) consists of loanwords. Most common/frequently used words are native to english (i. e. to , the , as ) Words that carry meaning are more likely to be loanwords. Pronunciation of loanwords may change when adapted to english. Reason why loanwords are easily incorporated into english. English is very flexible in terms of what can count as a word (e. g. long consonant sequences). Foreign words don"t have to change very much to (more or less) fit into the.
