What is a virtuous error?

Error made when applying grammatical rules to irregular words

What is covert prestige?

A form of high status given to non-standard forms

What is child directed speech? (CDS)

A style of communication adults naturally use with children

Changing your accent or dialect to move closer towards a group

A style of language used within a particular region

What is meant by operant conditioning?

Response from caregiver can influence future language use

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1
Name the theorist: Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT)
Peter Trudgill
Lesley Milroy
Howard Giles
Robin Lakoff
2
What is a virtuous error?
Error made when applying grammatical rules to irregular words
When children forget the correct word
Pronouncing a word wrong
Making spelling mistakes when writing
3
Who came up with the Scaffold theory?
Chomsky
Bruner
Skinner
Vygotsky
4
What year did Jenny Cheshire record the speech of teenagers in an adventure playground?
1974
1975
1991
1982
5
Which one is NOT a modal auxiliary verb?
perhaps
will
might
could
6
What year was printing introduced to England?
1476
1489
1413
1550
7
What is diachronic variation?
Variation across society at a single point in time
Variation through time
8
True or false? Upper class individuals drop their ‘h’s more.
False
True
9
Which one is a cause for language change?
History
Technology
Books
Media
10
Name the theorist: 'Jocks and burnouts'
William Labov
Harriet Powney
Penelope Eckert
Jenny Cheshire
11
What is a glottal stop?
The way that people pronounce sounds
An alternative name for the RP accent
A closure of the vocal cords.
An illness
12
Which is NOT an example of a subordinating conjunction?
But
Because
13
What is covert prestige?
The way in which dialect terms have been dropping out of use
Accents where speakers produce the post-vocalic /r/
A form of high status given to non-standard forms
Status that is publicly acknowledge
14
With the arrival of printing, which one slowly became more standardized?
Accents
Punctuation
Dialect
Spelling
15
What is child directed speech? (CDS)
Only children speaking to other children and not adults
Where children start to speak
Only adults speaking to children and not other adults
A style of communication adults naturally use with children
16
What is Convergence?
moving away from a group’s accent or dialect
Changing your accent or dialect to move closer towards a group
Received Pronunciation (RP)
Operating on a small scale
17
What is dialect?
The way that people pronounce words and sounds
A style of language used within a particular region
The way words are written down
A different language
18
What is meant by operant conditioning?
Children are naturally able to learn language
Response from caregiver can influence future language use
Children only talk when they are happy
Caregivers have no effect on child language acquisition
19
Who introduced printing to England in 1476?
David Moore
Callum Tank
William Caxton
Carl McEwen

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