LING 115 LINGUISTICS MIDTERM 2 FULLY
SOLVED TEST PAPER GRADED A+
◉ Listening to how people speak, there is no way to say where
Spanish ends and French begins on the Spain/France border.
True
False
Answer: True
◉ How do speakers decide when they are speaking the same
language?
Lexico-statistics
Mutual Intelligibility
Grammar and Cognates
Social/Political Power
,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.
Lexico-statistics tells us that the two varieties should be classified as
dialects of the same language, and the speakers of those varieties
consider themselves to be speaking the same language.
Lexico-statistics tells us that the two varieties should NOT be
classified as dialects of the same language, but the speakers of those
varieties might consider themselves to be speaking the same
language.
Answer: 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.
,◉ Jamaican Creole-English is an example of
A dialect continuum
Two mutually unintelligible dialects that are considered to be the
same language.
Two mutually intelligible dialects that are considered to be different
dialects.
Lexico-statistics.
Answer: A dialect continuum
◉ Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom r-drops.
True
False
Answer: True
◉ What is Standard English?
, The best way of speaking English.
A register of English.
The most systematic way of speaking English.
A style of English.
Answer: A style of English.
◉ Which of the following is a register?
The specialized way students speak in a classroom when a professor
is in the room.
The formal way people speak to their superiors.
The way English is spoken in Southern California.
The way French is spoken in Paris.
Answer: The specialized way students speak in a classroom when a
professor is in the room.
SOLVED TEST PAPER GRADED A+
◉ Listening to how people speak, there is no way to say where
Spanish ends and French begins on the Spain/France border.
True
False
Answer: True
◉ How do speakers decide when they are speaking the same
language?
Lexico-statistics
Mutual Intelligibility
Grammar and Cognates
Social/Political Power
,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.
Lexico-statistics tells us that the two varieties should be classified as
dialects of the same language, and the speakers of those varieties
consider themselves to be speaking the same language.
Lexico-statistics tells us that the two varieties should NOT be
classified as dialects of the same language, but the speakers of those
varieties might consider themselves to be speaking the same
language.
Answer: 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.
,◉ Jamaican Creole-English is an example of
A dialect continuum
Two mutually unintelligible dialects that are considered to be the
same language.
Two mutually intelligible dialects that are considered to be different
dialects.
Lexico-statistics.
Answer: A dialect continuum
◉ Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom r-drops.
True
False
Answer: True
◉ What is Standard English?
, The best way of speaking English.
A register of English.
The most systematic way of speaking English.
A style of English.
Answer: A style of English.
◉ Which of the following is a register?
The specialized way students speak in a classroom when a professor
is in the room.
The formal way people speak to their superiors.
The way English is spoken in Southern California.
The way French is spoken in Paris.
Answer: The specialized way students speak in a classroom when a
professor is in the room.
