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    Linguistics:AnIntroduction

    ByWilliamB.McGregor

    Test:7Sociolinguistics:LanguageinSocialContext

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    1)Thetermaccentisusedofdialectalvarietiesthatdifferjustingrammar.

    True
    False

    2)Adialectcontinuumisachainofmutuallyintelligibledialectsofalanguage.

    True
    False

    3) Dialectal variation refers to variation in linguistic forms associated primarily with which of the
    followingphenomena?

    socialgroups
    illiteratespeakers
    geographicalregions
    ruralregions
    differentindividuals

    4)Whichofthefollowingbestdescribesthetermisogloss?

    boundaryofaregioninwhichasingledialectisspoken
    boundaryofaregionwhereaparticularfeatureofalanguageisfound
    boundaryofregionwhereasinglelanguageisspoken
    noneoftheprevious

    5)Dialectalvariationcanbeinanyaspectofalanguageinphonetics,phonology,morphology,
    syntax,semantics,orlexicon.

    True
    False

    6)DidLabov'sstudyofthespeechofNewYorkersrevealthatdifferentsocialgroupsusedifferent
    allophonesofthevoicelessdentalfricativephoneme?

    Yes
    No
    7) Which of the following characteristics is not likely to correlate with systematic variation in a
    language?

    age
    religion
    sex
    ethnicity
    handedness

    8)Whichofthefollowingvarietiesisnotaregister?

    BritishEnglish
    medicalEnglish
    anantilanguage
    legalese
    scientificDanish

    9)Thechoiceoflanguagebyspeakersinabilingualcommunityisnotnormallycompletelyrandom.

    True
    False

    10)Onefactorthatcaninfluencethechoiceoflanguageinabilingualsituationisthedomainofthe
    speechinteraction.

    True
    False

    11)Languagechioceinbilingualspeechcommunitiescanusuallybeexplainedcompletelybythe
    domainofthespeechinteraction.

    True
    False

    12)Codeswitchingreferstowhichofthefollowingphenomena:

    Switchingfromwrittentospokencodes
    Changinglanguagesindifferentdomains
    Changinglanguageswithinasinglediscourse

    13)Inabilingualcommunitychoiceofwhichofthefollowinglanguagevarietiesismostlikelytobe
    usedtoindicatesolidarityamongmembersofthecommunity?

    AgloballanguagelikeEnglish
    Anationallanguage
    Aregionallanguageordialect
    Alocallanguageorlanguagevariety

    14)Codeswitchingisabadhabit,andshouldberemediedviaeducationandtraining.

    True
    False
    15)Languageshiftisaslowprocess,extendingovercenturies.

    True
    False

    16)Aslanguagesbecomeobsolescenttheyoftenbecomestructurallylesscomplex.

    True
    False

    17)Whichofthefollowingisnotacauseoflanguageshift?

    Inadequaciesinthegrammarorlexiconofoneofthelanguages
    Physicalseparationofthespeakers
    Attitudestothelanguagesinuseinthecommunity
    Symbolicvalueassociatedwiththelanguages
    Separationofchildrenfromadultsinthecommunity

    18)Whichofthefollowingisnottrue?

    Throughouthumanhistorylanguageshavealwaysbecomeendangeredanddied.
    Many languages of Australia and the Americas have become endangered in post
    colonialtimes.
    Therearenoattestedcasesofsuccessfullanguagerevival.
    If the present rate of language death and endangerment continues a considerable
    numberoftheworld'slanguageswilldieinthenextcentury.
    Speakers of many though not all endangered languages are concerned about
    thefateoftheirlanguage.

    19)MandarinChineseandCantonesearedialectsofChinese.

    True
    False

    20)Thesituationinwhichinterlocutorsadoptfeaturesofoneanother'sspeechiscalled:

    affiliation
    idiolectalvariation
    accommodation
    convergence
    disaffiliation

    21)ReductionofwordfinalconsonantclustersisadefiningfeatureofAfricanAmericanVernacular
    English.

    True
    False

    22)Whatsortofspeechvarietywouldavarietyofalanguageusedwhenspeakingtoanimalsbe?

    adialect
    aregister
    asecretvariety
    arespectvariety
    adistinctlanguage

    23)Useofasecondpersonpluralpronounforasingleaddresseeisinmanylanguagesassociated
    withwhichofthefollowing:

    intimacy
    respectfulness
    disrespect
    secretvarietiesorantilanguages
    deceptionorlying

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    Updated:Feb.11,2009

    2009Continuum

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