LING 115 MIDTERM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
D) There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers' heads. - Correct Answers
-A) There isn't a proper or improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries.
B) There isn't a proper or improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers' heads.
C) There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries.
D) There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers' heads.
Every speaker of a language has slightly different grammar rules and vocabulary. -
Correct Answers -What's the problem with saying that two speakers speak the same
language if they use the same grammar and vocabulary?
Norwegian and Danish are very similar yet they are considered two separate
languages. - Correct Answers -What's the problem with the Mutual Intelligibility
Hypothesis?
Arabic - Correct Answers -Which language has approximately 40 mutually unintelligible
dialects?
False - Correct Answers -T/F: The Papua New Guinea varieties Lusi and Kove are
considered by the people who speak them to be the same language because their
grammar and vocabulary are almost identical.
True - Correct Answers -T/F: The end points of a dialect continuum are easily defined
as separate languages.
True - Correct Answers -T/F: Listening to how people speak, there is no way to say
where Spanish ends and French begins on the Spain/France border.
AND ANSWERS
D) There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers' heads. - Correct Answers
-A) There isn't a proper or improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries.
B) There isn't a proper or improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers' heads.
C) There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries.
D) There is a proper and improper way of using casual/daily speech (ex: ain't). This
demonstrates that language is NOT the proper version written down in grammar
books/dictionaries, but rather what is actually in the speakers' heads.
Every speaker of a language has slightly different grammar rules and vocabulary. -
Correct Answers -What's the problem with saying that two speakers speak the same
language if they use the same grammar and vocabulary?
Norwegian and Danish are very similar yet they are considered two separate
languages. - Correct Answers -What's the problem with the Mutual Intelligibility
Hypothesis?
Arabic - Correct Answers -Which language has approximately 40 mutually unintelligible
dialects?
False - Correct Answers -T/F: The Papua New Guinea varieties Lusi and Kove are
considered by the people who speak them to be the same language because their
grammar and vocabulary are almost identical.
True - Correct Answers -T/F: The end points of a dialect continuum are easily defined
as separate languages.
True - Correct Answers -T/F: Listening to how people speak, there is no way to say
where Spanish ends and French begins on the Spain/France border.
