Ling 115
Varieties - correct answer ✔Ways that people speak; neutral term
Slang - correct answer ✔Agreement about the rules.
Can be improper slang/there is a wrong way to use slang
-know rules that haven't been taught
Advantage of Mutual Intelligibility - correct answer ✔Don't need exact same
grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary
i.e. British and American English
Mutual intelligibility problems - correct answer ✔1. Same language, not
mutually intelligible
i.e. Chinese= Cantonese, mandarin, Taiwanese or Geordie from New Castle
2. Different languages, mutually intelligible
ie languages spoken at the border are understood
3. Dialect Continuums
-where do you draw the lines between languages?
What is a language? - correct answer ✔Socio-political
-what people actually use
Examples of slang rules - correct answer ✔-like insertion
-expletive insertion
, Dialect Continuums - correct answer ✔Languages don't change at the border
they change little by little - similar to the color spectrum, cannot define where
one thing ends and another beings
ie Western Romance Dialect Continuum, Turkic Dialect Continuum
Language - correct answer ✔Powerful variety; socio-political
Lexico-statistics - correct answer ✔100-200 words: cognates?
- 80-100% = same language
- 21-81% = same family, different languages
- <28% = different families, different languages
Lexico-statistics definition - correct answer ✔formal linguists use it to
determine whether a variety is a language
-in this method, linguists compare vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation of
the varieties to estimate the percentage of similarities among them
-factors that influence speakers to identify themselves as speakers of a
certain language are: socio-economic class, ethnicity, and religion
-Would NOT work to define varieties geographically
Lingua Franca - correct answer ✔What speakers use to communicate with
one another
-the common language spoken between two speakers of different languages
Social Dialect Continuum - correct answer ✔Jamaican Creole Dialect
Continuum = social class continuum
Register - correct answer ✔Ways of speaking depending on formality
Varieties - correct answer ✔Ways that people speak; neutral term
Slang - correct answer ✔Agreement about the rules.
Can be improper slang/there is a wrong way to use slang
-know rules that haven't been taught
Advantage of Mutual Intelligibility - correct answer ✔Don't need exact same
grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary
i.e. British and American English
Mutual intelligibility problems - correct answer ✔1. Same language, not
mutually intelligible
i.e. Chinese= Cantonese, mandarin, Taiwanese or Geordie from New Castle
2. Different languages, mutually intelligible
ie languages spoken at the border are understood
3. Dialect Continuums
-where do you draw the lines between languages?
What is a language? - correct answer ✔Socio-political
-what people actually use
Examples of slang rules - correct answer ✔-like insertion
-expletive insertion
, Dialect Continuums - correct answer ✔Languages don't change at the border
they change little by little - similar to the color spectrum, cannot define where
one thing ends and another beings
ie Western Romance Dialect Continuum, Turkic Dialect Continuum
Language - correct answer ✔Powerful variety; socio-political
Lexico-statistics - correct answer ✔100-200 words: cognates?
- 80-100% = same language
- 21-81% = same family, different languages
- <28% = different families, different languages
Lexico-statistics definition - correct answer ✔formal linguists use it to
determine whether a variety is a language
-in this method, linguists compare vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation of
the varieties to estimate the percentage of similarities among them
-factors that influence speakers to identify themselves as speakers of a
certain language are: socio-economic class, ethnicity, and religion
-Would NOT work to define varieties geographically
Lingua Franca - correct answer ✔What speakers use to communicate with
one another
-the common language spoken between two speakers of different languages
Social Dialect Continuum - correct answer ✔Jamaican Creole Dialect
Continuum = social class continuum
Register - correct answer ✔Ways of speaking depending on formality
