Music & Language

Question 1

Speaking of multilingual - what is it called when you alternate between two or more languages or varieties of language?

Accepted Answer

code-switching

Question 2

True or false? Eurovision has never had rules restricting the choice of language for competing songs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Final challange: listen to this excerpt! What language are they singing in?

Accepted Answer

Brezhoneg (Breton)

Question 4

Some language families include tonal languages - in some of these, changing the tone alone changes a word’s meaning.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

But can they really choose any language? True or false: Eurovision allows entries to be sung in made up languages.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Staying with pitch, what do we call the rise and fall of pitch in speech that shows questions, emotion, or intent?

Accepted Answer

intonation

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