LIN 200 All Answers Correct
All languages are conscious knowledge. FALSE
Writing systems developed as naturally as spoken or signed languages. FALSE
Languages are --- because there is not natural connection between an object and the word that is used
to name that object. Arbitrary
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Writing systems developed as naturally as spoken or signed languages. ✅FALSE
Languages are --- because there is not natural connection between an object and the word that is used
to name that object. ✅Arbitrary
Component of grammar that tells is that English is an SVO language. ✅Syntax
Linguistics is ---, because it seeks to understand the linguistic forms that people use ---. ✅descriptivist;
no matter if they are considered incorrect.
"I was there, you was there, we was there..." ✅Example of regularization
Representation and expression of ideas; Organized system of linguistic units; Identification to a linguistic
community ✅All three notions help us define a language.
Component of grammar that tells us that [ski] is a possible combination of sounds in English but that
*[sgi] is not. ✅Phonetics
Component of grammar that tells us that we can get the word "teacher" by adding the agentive
marker"-er" to the stem "teach" ✅Morphology
Linguistics are interested in both the --- and the --- aspects of a language. ✅Grammatical; Social
--- are kinds of word that are most helpful to relate languages ✅Pronouns, numbers, and kinship terms
, A language that doesn't change --- ✅means that it no longer has active speakers.
A language family is a group of language that --- ✅have a common linguistic ancestor.
Some problems a linguist finds when relating languages ✅1) There is no clear way to decide whether a
linguistic variety is a language or dialect.
2) There is small evidence to postulate the characteristics of very ancient languages.
Greatest agents of language change. ✅Children acquiring a language.
Aspects of language that are susceptible to change over time. ✅Vocabulary, Grammatical rules, and
pronunciation.
Speakers of the English language modified their vowel pronunciation. ✅The Great Vowel Shift
People deteriorate the best linguistic variety of their language because they lack education. ✅FALSE
What we can learn from the fact that pronouncing the R is considered rural in British English but
standard in American English. ✅That linguistic features are associated with social qualities depending
on the social context.
How can we see a language change in a linguistics lab? ✅By examining how people use an artificial
linguistic variety in the lab, not their everyday linguistic variety.
c. 400-1066 ✅Old English
1066 - c. 1500 ✅Middle English
c. 1500 - 1650 ✅Early Modern English
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