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A corpus is a body of systematically gathered texts or transcribed speech
False
True
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When the British came to America (1700s) they had many dialects. This had a big effect on the regional American dialects
False
True
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What is descriptive grammar?
Telling people how to speak
Describing the grammar, sounds, words of a language
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languages that are identical to each other but because of socio-economic/historical factors are considered different
All of the above
Serbian and Croatian
Hindi and Urdu
Kechwa and Aimara
5
"Language is a dialect with an army and a navy" means language is made powerful for political reasons
False
True
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Asking others to help us with data for a language is Elicitation
True
False
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What is a dialect?
The way an individual pronounces words.
The form of language that is specific to a region or social group.
The ability to speak two or more languages.
Intonational patterns, speaking rate, and distinctive lexicons.
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Hindi and Urdu are actually mutually intelligible varieties of the same language
True
False
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How do dialects develop?
Language contact
All of the above
Geographical separation like mountains, rivers etc.
Separation from the original group
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What does a dialect involve?
Phonology (pronunciation)
All of them
Grammar (structure)
Vocabulary
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Phonetics is the study of
rhythms
language
words
sounds
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"Regional dialects" are dialects spoken in a certain geographical area.
False
True
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Dialects become languages for political and social reasons, not for linguistic ones
False
True
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How are languages made "standard languages"?
Using it in literature, the courts, education, administration, and commerce
Used for printing, news and education
Development of grammars and dictionaries
All of the above
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By what methods was the Proto-Germanic language reconstructed?
historical semantics
synchronic variation
grammatical typology
comparative methods
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A word in two or more daughter languages that derives from the same word in an ancestral language is
Proto-word
Semantics
Cognate
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West Germanic is the mother of
Frisian
All the above
English
German
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Morphology refers to:
The study of sounds
The study of words
The acceptable use of language
The structure of a sentence
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"Dialect continuum" is where there is gradual change of the language from one city to the next
True
False
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Sometimes a proto-language can be identified with a historically known language
Yes
No
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When one sound becomes similar to a nearby sound, it is called
Dissimilation
Metathesis
Haplology
Assimilation
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Explicit knowledge means
Superficial knowledge
Inside knowledge but we cant seem to explain the details about that topic
No Knowledge
Expert knowlege
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An accent refers to how people pronounce words.
False
True
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What does the larynx do?
Transfers nutrients to the esophagus
Transfers air to the lungs directly
Transfers air to the glottis and pharynx; contains the vocal folds.
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When there is a change in order of two adjacent sounds, it is called
Dissimilation
Haplology
Metathesis
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A dialect should not have any...
Crossover with other dialects
Accent
New vocabulary
Positive or negative connontation
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People who migrated to USA got many dialects of English and many languages with them when they migrated here.
False
True
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English is a part of which language family?
Indo-European
Turkic
Sino-tibetan
Semitic
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Implicit knowledge is like being able to drive but not necessarily know how a car works
False
True
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Using their native-speaker ability to study language
Introspection
Elicitation
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In most cases, Proto-language is a reconstructed language
No
Yes
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What is prescriptive grammar?
Tell people how they should speak
The sounds that we make when we talk
The action of thinking before says something
The grammar that helps to describe someone
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The Indo-European language family includes
German, Danish, French
Hebrew, Amharic, Somali
Yoruba, Igbo, Zulu
Telugu, Malayalam, Tulu
34
What made speech possible in humans?
An oral cavity at a right angle to the pharynx
development of vocal folds
L-shaped vocal tract
all the above
35
r-less pronunciation of words like “farm” and “far” are examples of
semantics
accent
non-rhotic accents
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A dialect is often considered non-standard/ sub-standard and can signify various degrees of inferiority.•
False
True
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Experiments help us collect data and test a hypothesis
False
True
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When one sound becomes dissimilar to a nearby sound, it is called
Assimilation
Dissimilation
Metathesis
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Languages keep changing because of
Migration
All the above
Sound change
War and invasions
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Oral languages don’t leave a trace
false
true
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Misconceptions about a dialect
All of the above
some dialects are inferior to others
some dialects are less pure, logical, complex, etc. than others
some dialects are ‘just slang’
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Broca’s Area
Is in the human knee
controls the ability to understand language
controls the ability to speak
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What is Syntax?
Enduring memory associated with a personal significant
The smallest speech of unit in a language that can be distinguished
a system of rules that specify how words can be arranged in a sentence
Memory that store audio information
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Indo-European includes
Mandarin, Wu
Zulu, Xhosa
Arabic, Amharic
English, German, French
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Words bearing a similarity due to their common descent are
Morphems
Cognates
Phonemes
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Definition of semantics ?
The study of context
Destination
Last stop
The study of language meaning
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Humans can control the larynx
no
yes
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Using a standardized variety can also give prestige to speakers who use it
False
True
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Linguists use the
comparative method
to reconstruct a proto-language
False
True
