LING 1020 Final Exam Practice Questions With Correct Answers

It can be hard to predict what a language will look like in the future. What can help? - correct answer--A. Knowing exactly how past change emerged as regular patterns out of chaos of every day speech Which alternative describes panel studies? - correct answer--C. Sampling and resampling the same participants over a period of years. Which one is NOT a general problem of real time studies? - correct answer--C. the unreliability of the results In which of the following are the terms used correctly? - correct answer--C. Children acquire a native language, and adults may deciie to learn a foreign language What is the plural form of the word corpus? - correct answer--C. Corpora What happened when researchers applied real time tests to predictions from apparent time studies? - correct answer--B. Inferences from apparent time studies may underestimate the speed of change, but not the direction What's true about age-graded variation? - correct answer--Happens when all speakers of a community use on variant at a certain age and another variant at a different age associated with individuals at different ages and stable variables What's the definition of social class used in this chapter? - correct answer--C. Measure of status based on occupation, income, and wealth together with life changes (aspirations and attitudes) Which one is FALSE about sociolinguistic variables? - correct answer--B/ Social class linguistic differences are deterministic and not probalistic What is NOT true about stable variables and social class? - correct answer--D. Status is the same as prestige when discussing how different social classes use stable variables Which of the following is true? - correct answer--Lower class shows a monotonic increase Monotonic - only ever decreases OR increases