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Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which statement is true regarding language variation between men and women? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Women are both conservative and innovative speakers at once
Which statement is not correct concerning the two sentences (1) and (2)?
(1) The sports debate between James and me quite intense
(2) The sports debate between James and I was quite intense - CORRECT ANSWER -
Both are correct descriptively, but Sentence (1) is correct prescriptively
Why is Sentence (3) marked as ungrammatical as a sentence of African American English?
(3) I be eatin' good today. - CORRECT ANSWER - In AAE, 'be' is used specifically for
habitual actions
When Chicano English pronunciation differs from Standard American English, - CORRECT
ANSWER - It often is also different in pronunciation from Spanish
Which of the following is NOT true of AAE? - CORRECT ANSWER - All speakers of
AAE are African American
The origin of AAE is - CORRECT ANSWER - Still subject of debate - scholars have not
yet reached a consensus
The Oakland Ebonics proposal had the aim of - CORRECT ANSWER - Improving
mastery of Standard English for those who were native speakers of AAE
In AAE, the word "list" is often pronounced [lis], but "paint" would be pronounced the same as
in Standard American English, due to a phonological rule which reduces a consonant cluster
(combination of multiple consonants) when - CORRECT ANSWER - They share a
voicing value
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How jargon different from slang? - CORRECT ANSWER - Jargon begins in a profession
or avocation
Consider this sentence:
(4) I did done told her she might could get in trouble but don't never listen.
Which of the following two AAE features appear in Sentence (4) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Double negatives and double modals
What was one consequence of the Ebonics Controversy? - CORRECT ANSWER - The
critique of the Ebonics curriculum was so severe, Californians later voted for instruction in
Standard English only
Morphemes are different from words in part because morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER -
Can be smaller than words
The smallest linguistic units that make a connection between sound and meaning are called -
CORRECT ANSWER - Morphemes
Languages which form very long words containing many morphemes that can be a sentence all
by themselves are called - CORRECT ANSWER - Agglutinative
Old English was a ____ language, while Modern English is a _____ language - CORRECT
ANSWER - Synthetic; analytic
If an affix changes the lexical category (part of speech) of the stem that it attaches to, then it
must be - CORRECT ANSWER - Derivational
The past tense marked "-ed" is an example of _______ morphology - CORRECT
ANSWER - Inflectional
ALS Final Exam ACTUAL UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Which statement is true regarding language variation between men and women? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Women are both conservative and innovative speakers at once
Which statement is not correct concerning the two sentences (1) and (2)?
(1) The sports debate between James and me quite intense
(2) The sports debate between James and I was quite intense - CORRECT ANSWER -
Both are correct descriptively, but Sentence (1) is correct prescriptively
Why is Sentence (3) marked as ungrammatical as a sentence of African American English?
(3) I be eatin' good today. - CORRECT ANSWER - In AAE, 'be' is used specifically for
habitual actions
When Chicano English pronunciation differs from Standard American English, - CORRECT
ANSWER - It often is also different in pronunciation from Spanish
Which of the following is NOT true of AAE? - CORRECT ANSWER - All speakers of
AAE are African American
The origin of AAE is - CORRECT ANSWER - Still subject of debate - scholars have not
yet reached a consensus
The Oakland Ebonics proposal had the aim of - CORRECT ANSWER - Improving
mastery of Standard English for those who were native speakers of AAE
In AAE, the word "list" is often pronounced [lis], but "paint" would be pronounced the same as
in Standard American English, due to a phonological rule which reduces a consonant cluster
(combination of multiple consonants) when - CORRECT ANSWER - They share a
voicing value
, MGRADES
How jargon different from slang? - CORRECT ANSWER - Jargon begins in a profession
or avocation
Consider this sentence:
(4) I did done told her she might could get in trouble but don't never listen.
Which of the following two AAE features appear in Sentence (4) - CORRECT
ANSWER - Double negatives and double modals
What was one consequence of the Ebonics Controversy? - CORRECT ANSWER - The
critique of the Ebonics curriculum was so severe, Californians later voted for instruction in
Standard English only
Morphemes are different from words in part because morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER -
Can be smaller than words
The smallest linguistic units that make a connection between sound and meaning are called -
CORRECT ANSWER - Morphemes
Languages which form very long words containing many morphemes that can be a sentence all
by themselves are called - CORRECT ANSWER - Agglutinative
Old English was a ____ language, while Modern English is a _____ language - CORRECT
ANSWER - Synthetic; analytic
If an affix changes the lexical category (part of speech) of the stem that it attaches to, then it
must be - CORRECT ANSWER - Derivational
The past tense marked "-ed" is an example of _______ morphology - CORRECT
ANSWER - Inflectional
