English Language A LEVEL - Paper 2
LINGUISTS Exam With Quality Answers
Trudgill 1970s - correct answers ✔✔Men choose covert prestige. Women choose overt prestige
and tend to hypercorrectness
Trudgill 1970s - correct answers ✔✔Sex affects variation within dialect
Kerswill - correct answers ✔✔Economic change as a cause of dialect levelling
Trudgill 1986 - correct answers ✔✔Dialect contact
Milroy 1987 - correct answers ✔✔Social network theory (Belfast)
Eckert 2000 - correct answers ✔✔Jocks and Burnouts
Giles 1970 - correct answers ✔✔Accommodation theory
Milroy 2002 - correct answers ✔✔Increased geographical mobility leads to disruption of
localised networks
Dennis Freeborn - correct answers ✔✔3 views on accents
Labov 1963 - correct answers ✔✔Martha's vineyard
, Labov 1972 - correct answers ✔✔Department store
Neuliep and Speten-Hansen 2013 - correct answers ✔✔A person's ethnocentricity determines
how they view non-native accents
Seligman, Tucker, and Lambert 1972 - correct answers ✔✔Teacher's perceptions of students
Choy and Dodd 1976 - correct answers ✔✔Teacher's perceptions of students (confirms S,T,L
1972)
Giles 1975 - correct answers ✔✔Matched guise: Brummie vs RP intelligence
Giles 1973 - correct answers ✔✔Matched guise: teenagers persuaded by teacher
Dixon, Mahoney, and Cocks 2002 - correct answers ✔✔Matched guise: perceived guilt
Gary Ives - correct answers ✔✔Secondary school, West Yorkshire. 100% of teens think they
speak differently
Strenström - correct answers ✔✔Features of teen talk
Eckert 2003 - correct answers ✔✔Teens and slang
Berland 1997 - correct answers ✔✔Tag questions & significance of class
De Klerk 2005 - correct answers ✔✔Young people challenge linguistic norms
LINGUISTS Exam With Quality Answers
Trudgill 1970s - correct answers ✔✔Men choose covert prestige. Women choose overt prestige
and tend to hypercorrectness
Trudgill 1970s - correct answers ✔✔Sex affects variation within dialect
Kerswill - correct answers ✔✔Economic change as a cause of dialect levelling
Trudgill 1986 - correct answers ✔✔Dialect contact
Milroy 1987 - correct answers ✔✔Social network theory (Belfast)
Eckert 2000 - correct answers ✔✔Jocks and Burnouts
Giles 1970 - correct answers ✔✔Accommodation theory
Milroy 2002 - correct answers ✔✔Increased geographical mobility leads to disruption of
localised networks
Dennis Freeborn - correct answers ✔✔3 views on accents
Labov 1963 - correct answers ✔✔Martha's vineyard
, Labov 1972 - correct answers ✔✔Department store
Neuliep and Speten-Hansen 2013 - correct answers ✔✔A person's ethnocentricity determines
how they view non-native accents
Seligman, Tucker, and Lambert 1972 - correct answers ✔✔Teacher's perceptions of students
Choy and Dodd 1976 - correct answers ✔✔Teacher's perceptions of students (confirms S,T,L
1972)
Giles 1975 - correct answers ✔✔Matched guise: Brummie vs RP intelligence
Giles 1973 - correct answers ✔✔Matched guise: teenagers persuaded by teacher
Dixon, Mahoney, and Cocks 2002 - correct answers ✔✔Matched guise: perceived guilt
Gary Ives - correct answers ✔✔Secondary school, West Yorkshire. 100% of teens think they
speak differently
Strenström - correct answers ✔✔Features of teen talk
Eckert 2003 - correct answers ✔✔Teens and slang
Berland 1997 - correct answers ✔✔Tag questions & significance of class
De Klerk 2005 - correct answers ✔✔Young people challenge linguistic norms
