Ling 115 Midterm 1 Exam Questions With Correct Answers

LING 115 MIDTERM 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

White Southerners in the U.S. are an example of a speech community. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-TRUE |




Language variation tends to be categorical. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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FALSE


Those who spread new linguistic forms from one social network to
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another are called "brokers." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-TRUE
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The isolation / barriers to interaction that affect language variation and
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change can be physical or social. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-TRUE
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Working-class English speakers from New York vs. California are
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probably more different linguistically than middle-class English speakers
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from New York vs. California. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-TRUE
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The standardized dialect of a language always has a grammar (a set of
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rules that it follows), but other dialects can be chaotic / random. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-FALSE |