Linguistics: An Introduction - Results - Test 7

Date: Oct. 31, 2017 @ 08:07

URL: http://mcgregor.continuumbooks.net/test/7/

Name / ID: nana

You answered 10 (43.5%) of the 23 questions correctly.

The following questions were answered incorrectly.

1) The term accent is used of dialectal varieties that differ just in grammar.
Your answer: True
Comment: No, accents are dialects that differ primarily in phonetics and/or
phonology.

2) A dialect continuum is a chain of mutually intelligible dialects of a language.

Your answer: False
Comment: See p.159.

7) Which of the following characteristics is not likely to correlate with systematic

variation in a language?
Your answer: religion
Comment: No, religion does sometimes correlate with systematic variation
in a language; see p.164.

8) Which of the following varieties is not a register?

Your answer: an anti-language
Comment: Anti-languages are registers; see pp.165-166.

10) One factor that can influence the choice of language in a bilingual situation is the
domain of the speech interaction.
Your answer: False
Comment: See p.168.

12) Code switching refers to which of the following phenomena:

Your answer: Changing languages in different domains

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Comment: See pp.169-170.

15) Language shift is a slow process, extending over centuries.

Your answer: True
Comment: No, shift can be quite rapid, and certainly need not happen over
centuries; see pp.171-172.

17) Which of the following is not a cause of language shift?

Your answer: Symbolic value associated with the languages
Comment: This is a possible cause of language shift; see p.173.

18) Which of the following is not true?

Your answer: If the present rate of language death and endangerment
continues a considerable number of the world's languages will
die in the next century.
Comment: No, this is true. See p.174.

19) Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese are dialects of Chinese.

Your answer: True
Comment: See p.160.

20) The situation in which interlocutors adopt features of one another's speech is called:
Your answer: disaffiliation
Comment: See p.164.

21) Reduction of word final consonant clusters is a defining feature of African American
Vernacular English.
Your answer: True
Comment: No. Although it happens in AAVE, it is not unique to this
variety.

22) What sort of speech variety would a variety of a language used when speaking to
animals be?

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Your answer: a dialect

Comment: See pp.164-165.

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