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LING 115 - Linguistics Midterm #1Which of the following is true?
There isn't a proper or improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't).
This demonstrates that language is the proper version written down in
grammar books/dictionaries.
There isn't a proper or improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't).
This demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in
grammar books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers'
heads.
There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't).
This demonstrates that language is the proper version written down in
grammar books/dictionaries.
There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't).
This demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in
grammar books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers'
heads. - correct answer ✔There is a proper and improper way of using
casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This demonstrates that language is NOT the
proper version written down in grammar books/dictionaries, but rather what is
actually in the speakers' heads.
What's the problem with saying that two speakers speak the same language if
they use the same grammar and vocabulary?
Norwegian and Danish are very similar yet they are considered two separate
languages.
,Every speaker of a language has slightly different grammar rules and
vocabulary.
The different dialects of Urdu are so different that the speakers cannot
understand each other.
Papua New Guinea has an extraordinary number of languages that are
difficult to classify by family. - correct answer ✔Every speaker of a language
has slightly different grammar rules and vocabulary.
What's the problem with the Mutual Intelligibility Hypothesis?
Norwegian and Danish are very similar yet they are considered two separate
languages.
Every speaker of a language has slightly different grammar rules and
vocabulary.
The different dialects of Urdu are so different that the speakers cannot
understand each other.
Papua New Guinea has an extraordinary number of languages that are
difficult to classify by family. - correct answer ✔Norwegian and Danish are
very similar yet they are considered two separate languages.
Which of the following has approximately 40 mutually unintelligible dialects?
Arabic
Chinese
Dutch
, English - correct answer ✔Arabic
The Papua New Guinea varieties Lusi and Kove are considered by the people
who speak them to be the same language because their grammar and
vocabulary are almost identical. T/F? - correct answer ✔False
The end points of a dialect continuum are easily defined as separate
languages. T/F? - correct answer ✔True
Listening to how people speak, there is no way to say where Spanish ends
and French begins on the Spain/France border. T/F? - correct answer ✔True
How do speakers decide when they are speaking the same language?
Lexico-statistics
Mutual Intelligibilty
Grammar and Cognates
Social/Political Power - correct answer ✔Social/Political Power
A researcher chooses 200 words from two varieties at random. If 89% of the
words in that sample are cognates, then:
The speakers of those varieties consider themselves to be speaking dialects
of the same language.
Lexico-statistics tells us that the two varieties should be classified as dialects
of the same language, but the speakers of those varieties may not consider
themselves to be speaking the same language.
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