LING 115 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Which of the following holds that refusing to provide accommodations for non-English
speaking children is a form of discrimination?
A. The Bilingual Education Act
B. Meyers v. Nebraska
C. Lau v. Nichols
D. Prop 227 - Correct Answers -C.
T/F: The actual result of Prop 227 is that all bilingual programs in CA are submersion
type programs. - Correct Answers -False
A language with speakers in their 30s but no speakers under the age of 20 should be
described as
A. Safe
B. Extinct
C. Endangered
D. Moribund - Correct Answers -C.
The superstratum language is one that
A. has, relatively speaking, the most power.
B. has the longest history.
C. is the lingua franca of the region.
D. is spoken by the most people in the region. - Correct Answers -A
The vocabulary of a creole comes from
A. the default settings of parameters (under the Universal Grammar theory).
B. all of the languages that contribute to the creole.
C. Portuguese.
D. the superstratum language. - Correct Answers -D
Which contact situation created Tok Pisin?
A. War/Military Occupation
B. Trade
C. Immigration
D. Plantations - Correct Answers -A
Which contact situation created Hawaiian Pidgin?
A. War/Military Occupation
B. Trade
C. Immigration
D. Plantations - Correct Answers -D
, What is the superstratum language for Russo-Chinese Pidgin spoken in Shanghai in the
1920s?
A. English
B. Shanghainese
C. Russian
D. Portuguese - Correct Answers -C
T/F: There are no known instance of a new language being formed by swapping out the
vocabulary words of another language while preserving the sentence structure of that
other language. - Correct Answers -False
Why was the implementation of Indonesian in Indonesia more successful than the
implementation of Filipino in the Phillipines?
A. Everyone knew that Filipino was just Tagalog by another name whereas Indonesian
was a completely new language.
B. Indonesian was wide spread, spoken by most people in the country, but Filipino was
not.
C. Filipino needed a lot of work to be a suitable official language whereas Indonesian
did not.
D. Indonesian was spoken by a variety of ethnic groups (but not the group in control of
the government) whereas Filipino was spoken only by the ethnic group in control of the
government. - Correct Answers -D
What was the most important factor in the success of Tanzania's language policy?
A. Most people in the country could speak Swahili.
B. English is easy to learn.
C. Most of the country, even if they didn't speak Swahili, spoke another Bantu language.
D. Swahili was already used in government and by the universities. - Correct Answers -
C
In Azerbaijan, the implementation of the Latin script in 1926 was more successful than
the implementation of the Cyrillic script. Why?
A. The government burned books when they implemented the Cyrillic script, but not
when they implemented the Latin script.
B. The implementation of the Cyrillic script cut Azerbaijan off from a lot of its past and its
ethnic/religious connections, but the implementation of the Latin script did not.
C. The switch to the Latin script was done in cooperation with the Azerbaijan people,
especially the intelligentsia, whereas the the switch to the Cyrillic script was a unilateral
decision by Moscow, implemented with fines and jail.
D. The Latin script was better suited to the Azeri language than the Cyrillic script. -
Correct Answers -C
Changing the script of a language, as in Azerbaijan, is an example of
A. Corpus Planning
B. Status Planning
C. Language Planning
ANSWERS
Which of the following holds that refusing to provide accommodations for non-English
speaking children is a form of discrimination?
A. The Bilingual Education Act
B. Meyers v. Nebraska
C. Lau v. Nichols
D. Prop 227 - Correct Answers -C.
T/F: The actual result of Prop 227 is that all bilingual programs in CA are submersion
type programs. - Correct Answers -False
A language with speakers in their 30s but no speakers under the age of 20 should be
described as
A. Safe
B. Extinct
C. Endangered
D. Moribund - Correct Answers -C.
The superstratum language is one that
A. has, relatively speaking, the most power.
B. has the longest history.
C. is the lingua franca of the region.
D. is spoken by the most people in the region. - Correct Answers -A
The vocabulary of a creole comes from
A. the default settings of parameters (under the Universal Grammar theory).
B. all of the languages that contribute to the creole.
C. Portuguese.
D. the superstratum language. - Correct Answers -D
Which contact situation created Tok Pisin?
A. War/Military Occupation
B. Trade
C. Immigration
D. Plantations - Correct Answers -A
Which contact situation created Hawaiian Pidgin?
A. War/Military Occupation
B. Trade
C. Immigration
D. Plantations - Correct Answers -D
, What is the superstratum language for Russo-Chinese Pidgin spoken in Shanghai in the
1920s?
A. English
B. Shanghainese
C. Russian
D. Portuguese - Correct Answers -C
T/F: There are no known instance of a new language being formed by swapping out the
vocabulary words of another language while preserving the sentence structure of that
other language. - Correct Answers -False
Why was the implementation of Indonesian in Indonesia more successful than the
implementation of Filipino in the Phillipines?
A. Everyone knew that Filipino was just Tagalog by another name whereas Indonesian
was a completely new language.
B. Indonesian was wide spread, spoken by most people in the country, but Filipino was
not.
C. Filipino needed a lot of work to be a suitable official language whereas Indonesian
did not.
D. Indonesian was spoken by a variety of ethnic groups (but not the group in control of
the government) whereas Filipino was spoken only by the ethnic group in control of the
government. - Correct Answers -D
What was the most important factor in the success of Tanzania's language policy?
A. Most people in the country could speak Swahili.
B. English is easy to learn.
C. Most of the country, even if they didn't speak Swahili, spoke another Bantu language.
D. Swahili was already used in government and by the universities. - Correct Answers -
C
In Azerbaijan, the implementation of the Latin script in 1926 was more successful than
the implementation of the Cyrillic script. Why?
A. The government burned books when they implemented the Cyrillic script, but not
when they implemented the Latin script.
B. The implementation of the Cyrillic script cut Azerbaijan off from a lot of its past and its
ethnic/religious connections, but the implementation of the Latin script did not.
C. The switch to the Latin script was done in cooperation with the Azerbaijan people,
especially the intelligentsia, whereas the the switch to the Cyrillic script was a unilateral
decision by Moscow, implemented with fines and jail.
D. The Latin script was better suited to the Azeri language than the Cyrillic script. -
Correct Answers -C
Changing the script of a language, as in Azerbaijan, is an example of
A. Corpus Planning
B. Status Planning
C. Language Planning
