Language Acquisition, Power, Situation, standard and non-standard quiz

Question 1

And what is Trudgill's first name, anyway?

Accepted Answer

Peter

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a component of Communication Accommodation Theory

Accepted Answer

Morphological slide process

Question 3

What do we call the study of sounds made by people in language and communication?

Accepted Answer

Prosody

Question 4

How many punctuation marks are there in common usage today?

Accepted Answer

12

Question 5

Covert and Overt Prestige is an important theory. What does 'Covert' actually mean?

Accepted Answer

Hidden

Question 6

Trudgill came up with a very interesting study. Where was it based?

Accepted Answer

Norwich

Question 7

What is a 'diglossic' society?

Accepted Answer

A society where most people speak two languages

Question 8

Phonetically speaking, what word does this represent? [ðæʔ]

Accepted Answer

That

Question 9

What do we call a sound made using the lips?

Accepted Answer

Labial

Question 10

What is 'over-extension'?

Accepted Answer

When a child uses one word for a lot of different things

Question 11

What is another word for 'child-directed speech'?

Accepted Answer

Motherese

Question 12

It was inspired by an American study of how New Yorkers pronounced which consonant?

Accepted Answer

R

Question 13

And what does 'Overt' mean?

Accepted Answer

Open

Question 14

And whose study was that?

Accepted Answer

Labov

Question 15

In child language acquisition, what takes place between 24 and 30 months?

Accepted Answer

The morphosyntactic burst

Question 16

What is another name for the study of 'Black' English?

Accepted Answer

Ebonics

Question 17

What is a fricative?

Accepted Answer

A sound made between the teeth

Question 18

In English Language terms, what is a phone?

Accepted Answer

An individual sound

Question 19

When talking about consonants, which one is referred to as the 'liquid' sound?

Accepted Answer

R

Question 20

Which of these is NOT a prosodic feature?

Accepted Answer

Pairing

Question 21

In the phonetic representation 'Mei?', what does the '?' represent?

Accepted Answer

A glottal stop

Question 22

Who developed Communication Accommodation Theory?

Accepted Answer

Howard Giles

Question 23

What sound does this phonetic symbol represent? θ

Accepted Answer

Th

Question 24

What do we call people who insist that the rules of English be always followed correctly?

Accepted Answer

Prescriptivists

Question 25

In AAVE, what does the V stand for?

Accepted Answer

Vernacular

Language Acquisition, Power, Situation, standard and non-standard quiz

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Language Acquisition, Power, Situation, standard and non-standard quiz

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