LIN201 - Summer 2024 - Exam Review

People in Niagara falls using "zed" proportionally more than people in Albany or Buffalo is the result of a:

The Beothuk language...

Linguistic variation is not possible without linguistic change.

The name of the office governing the use of the French language in Québec is:

Black Nova Scotians interviewed by Poplack and Tagliamonte were well aware of their dialect features. This is known as:

A Canadian English word of Cree origin referring to a northern wetland is:

Saying the same thing in two or more ways is known as:

Unspoken but perceived information about a speaker that informs how listeners interpret them and their speech is:

Which of the following is NOT a feature of Newfoundland English?

"Positionality" refers to:

Indigenous Englishes are shaped by the linguistic features of the mother tongue of individual communities.

Canadian English has no dialectal variation.

In the 19th c., upper-class Canadians wanted to sound more British. The resulting affectation is known as:

Processing spoken language in face-to-face interactions involves interpreting social factors such as gender, age etc. 

The following is an example of a unique discursive (DISCOURSE) feature of First Nations English? 

Canadian Raising affects the following diphthongs:

The West Coast was the first place European settlers settled in Canada.

Which one of these pronunciation features is a consequence of Scottish settlement in Ontario?

The term for convergence of unique dialect features into a more homogenous variety is known as:

Which of the following is NOT a context in which "eh?" is typically used?

Loanwords from French to English are called:

The imaginary line dividing the lexemes used for the numbers 70, 80, and 90 in Hexagonal and Walloon French is known as:

In what years did the United Empire Loyalists move to Upper Canada?

The Canadian Low-Back Merger means that the following pair of words is pronounced with the same vowel:

There are no pronunciation-related border effects between Southern Ontario and Upstate New York.