LING-115 FINAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
If a language has over 10,000 speakers, it's safe and going to continue into the future.
True
False - Correct Answers -False
96% of the world's languages are spoken by 4% of the world's population.
True
False - Correct Answers -True
Code-switching is one of the causes of language shift.
True
False - Correct Answers -False
The second stage in the 3-generation language shift model is bilingualism.
True
False - Correct Answers -True
One of the places with the most language extinction is:
Papua New Guinea
North America
Kenya
Europe - Correct Answers -North America
In the town of Oberwart, the oldest generation spoke:
Hungarian with survival skills German
German with survival skills Hungarian
German and Hungarian equally well (bilingual)
, Only German - Correct Answers -Hungarian with survival skills German
If a speaker of a minority language gets made fun of at school for not speaking the
majority language well, that speaker will most likely...
Work really hard to learn the majority language, but speak the minority language often
because they're proud of it.
Work really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the minority language
because they're ashamed of it.
Refuse to speak the majority language because they're ashamed of their language
skills, thus reinforcing their minority language skills.
Speak the minority language and the majority language the same as they always have.
(The bullying won't have any effect.) - Correct Answers -Work really hard to learn the
majority language and stop speaking the minority language because they're ashamed of
it.
One of the best ways to ensure that a minority language survives in the presence of a
more dominant language group is
to house the speakers in the middle of a big city.
to require that the students take the minority language as a foreign language in middle
school or high school.
to have speakers of the minority language intermarry with the speakers of the dominant
language.
to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting. - Correct Answers -to
isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting.
The treatment of a Kikuyu speaker under English colonial rule in Kenya could be
described as
a top-down pressure
a bottom-up pressure
encouragement for the minority language - Correct Answers -a top-down pressure
A language with speakers in their 30's but no speakers under the age of 20 should be
described as
ANSWERS
If a language has over 10,000 speakers, it's safe and going to continue into the future.
True
False - Correct Answers -False
96% of the world's languages are spoken by 4% of the world's population.
True
False - Correct Answers -True
Code-switching is one of the causes of language shift.
True
False - Correct Answers -False
The second stage in the 3-generation language shift model is bilingualism.
True
False - Correct Answers -True
One of the places with the most language extinction is:
Papua New Guinea
North America
Kenya
Europe - Correct Answers -North America
In the town of Oberwart, the oldest generation spoke:
Hungarian with survival skills German
German with survival skills Hungarian
German and Hungarian equally well (bilingual)
, Only German - Correct Answers -Hungarian with survival skills German
If a speaker of a minority language gets made fun of at school for not speaking the
majority language well, that speaker will most likely...
Work really hard to learn the majority language, but speak the minority language often
because they're proud of it.
Work really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the minority language
because they're ashamed of it.
Refuse to speak the majority language because they're ashamed of their language
skills, thus reinforcing their minority language skills.
Speak the minority language and the majority language the same as they always have.
(The bullying won't have any effect.) - Correct Answers -Work really hard to learn the
majority language and stop speaking the minority language because they're ashamed of
it.
One of the best ways to ensure that a minority language survives in the presence of a
more dominant language group is
to house the speakers in the middle of a big city.
to require that the students take the minority language as a foreign language in middle
school or high school.
to have speakers of the minority language intermarry with the speakers of the dominant
language.
to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting. - Correct Answers -to
isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting.
The treatment of a Kikuyu speaker under English colonial rule in Kenya could be
described as
a top-down pressure
a bottom-up pressure
encouragement for the minority language - Correct Answers -a top-down pressure
A language with speakers in their 30's but no speakers under the age of 20 should be
described as
