Y13 End of Year Quiz (English Language A Level)

Pinker identified that often, new 'politically correct' terms develop negative connotations over time. He coined this:

The Accent Bias in Britain project investigates accentism in which context?

In Britain, accent is/is not a protected characteristic?

In 2020, why couldn't the OED agree a Word of the Year?

John McWhorter describes this as what:

What we know now as the British Isles were invaded by Angles, Saxons and Jutes, making the base layer of English...

When people choose to signal things about themselves through their language choices, we can call this:

Johnson wanted to fix language with a dictionary. Who wanted an Academy?

According the the Milroys, women tended to use more standard forms as a result of

RP, otherwise known as the Queen's English or BBC English has high prestige because...

Who is the founder of variationist linguistics?

Peter Trudgill studied which linguistic variable in Norwich in the 1970s?

The 'n' word being used by the black community is an example of:

In General American, post vocalic /r/ is a...

The idea that language reflects the way we think is called:

What type of prestige did they gain from using this style of pronunciation?

What term describes words being taken from another language to become part of English vocabulary?

Internet linguists, such as Gretchen McCulloch, would argue that:

RP is the ...

Labov's New York Department store study focused on which linguistic variable?

What type of prestige does this link with?

What century would most historical linguists mark as the start point for the origin of the English Language?

Why does English remain the dominant global language

The idea that language shapes the way we think is called:

The Milroys established:

In Giles' Matched Guise Test he found that RP was associated with

English was, for a long time, the third place language in terms of power behind:

Which linguistic variable did Labov's Martha's Vineyard study focus on?

Chen's S Curve model suggests the following stages for change:

Crystal's Tidal metaphor suggests that:

A patois is a first generation contact language. A creole is

Why did Johnson become more of a descriptivist after writing his dictionary?

Which European country made a law in 2020 banning discrimination on the basis of accent?

What are Haugen's 4 stages of standardisation?

Bailey's Wave model is outdated as it doesn't consider the role of:

Is Aitchison a descriptivist or a prescriptivist?

RP is ...

According to social network theory, non standard, vernacular forms occur most frequently in:

Which group(s) did Trudgill find were more likely to drop their Gs?

However, Giles also found that RP speakers were viewed as

Kachru's model of World Englishes suggests there is:

Dialect Levelling refers to the idea that:

Most words from Anglo-Saxon that have remained in use are function words- the nuts and bolts of language- such as:

Is LOL a word?

Lowth's grammar tried to impose rules from .... which are incompatible with Germanic grammatical structures.

The process of semantic change where a word develops more negative meanings/connotations is called:

Aitchison said: The spread of language change is, then, essentially:

Bailey's Wave model suggests that:

People don't just have one style of speaking. They have many. This is known as:

Guy Deutshcer suggested that sometimes language changes due to an accumulation of unintended actions. This is:

In the middle English period, inflections are lost and English syntax becomes fixed in the following order:

What is a lingua franca?

People today tend to live in lower density networks than they have historically. This could lead to dialect levelling as

What does RP stand for?

An example of Lowth's rules...

Invasions and migrations were crucial in the development of English. The resultant layers of English are:

He found pronunciation of post vocalic /r/ was most frequent in Saks, which was the...

Which group in particular converged towards the style of speech of the Chilmark fishermen?

In which year did Caxton introduce the Printing Press to England?

The Accent Bias in Britain found that people can overcome their biases with....

Political correctness has been referred to as a form of benign prescriptivism because:

What does it mean to 'codify' a language?

English grew in power in the 14th-15th centuries. Whose Bible was crucial to this development?

Lane Greene's identification of the declinist attitudes of prescriptivist links to which of Aitchison's metaphors?

Labov made the shop assistants say the phrase...