LING 1 UCLA Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
1. Descriptive Linguists description or model of the mental grammar (ex. I ain't seen Bill (Speak-
grammar er's Dialect))
2. Prescriptive Rules of grammar (for English, typically based in Latin) that teachers would use
grammar (ex. I have not seen Bill.)
3. Negative concord Ex. I ain't seen nobody do nothing
When you use a negative in a sentence, you have to use it throughout
4. Dialect Refers to any variety of a language that is shared by a group of speakers - everyone
speaks a dialect
5. AAVE be-deletion Ex. "He is nice" is Standard English --> "He nice" in AAVE
6. h-deletion Ex. "ere you go" instead of "here you go"
Popular in lower class UK population
7. Where does our Education system
perception of a Government
prestige dialect Social class
come from?
8. Singlish Singaporean English
Use discourse particles like "lah" or "meh"
9. Discourse parti- no direct semantic meaning, but serve a pragmatic function - change the tone or
cles attitude of sentence
10. Quotative com- Ex. She was like, "I think so"
plementizer The word like is a quotative complementizer^^
11. Approximative Ex. Using the word like to approximate a number
adverb Ex. There were like, 200 people there.
, LING 1 UCLA Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
12. Purnell, Idsardi, Summary: Tested how successful people using different various dialects were at
and Baugh exper- getting an open house appointment
iment (1999)
Wanted to test if there was dialect based discrimination and whether ethnic group
aflliation was recoverable from speech
Specifically, they wanted to know the extent to which discrimination by race or
ethnicity could be based only on linguistic profiling
People's attitudes on speakers is what governs their attitude towards a specific
dialect
Had people that used different dialects call to ask about an apartment open house
in different cities using their respective dialects
There was a correlation between the population of the cities and the percentage
of aflrmative responses the callers got
When the callers only used the word hello, responders were still able to identify
dialects 70% of the time
13. Contralateral input from one side of the body is received by the opposite side of the brain
control
14. Where are the Left hemisphere
written and spo-
ken language
functions located
in the brain?
15. Dichotic listening Different sounds are played in both ears simultaneously
test Subjects reported only hearing the sound being played into the right ear
Therefore, strong left hemisphere bias
16. Split brain patient Patient could draw, but not describe what he saw in his left field of vision (because
experiments it was received in his right brain, where he did not have the ability to use language
to describe what he saw)
and CORRECT Answers
1. Descriptive Linguists description or model of the mental grammar (ex. I ain't seen Bill (Speak-
grammar er's Dialect))
2. Prescriptive Rules of grammar (for English, typically based in Latin) that teachers would use
grammar (ex. I have not seen Bill.)
3. Negative concord Ex. I ain't seen nobody do nothing
When you use a negative in a sentence, you have to use it throughout
4. Dialect Refers to any variety of a language that is shared by a group of speakers - everyone
speaks a dialect
5. AAVE be-deletion Ex. "He is nice" is Standard English --> "He nice" in AAVE
6. h-deletion Ex. "ere you go" instead of "here you go"
Popular in lower class UK population
7. Where does our Education system
perception of a Government
prestige dialect Social class
come from?
8. Singlish Singaporean English
Use discourse particles like "lah" or "meh"
9. Discourse parti- no direct semantic meaning, but serve a pragmatic function - change the tone or
cles attitude of sentence
10. Quotative com- Ex. She was like, "I think so"
plementizer The word like is a quotative complementizer^^
11. Approximative Ex. Using the word like to approximate a number
adverb Ex. There were like, 200 people there.
, LING 1 UCLA Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
12. Purnell, Idsardi, Summary: Tested how successful people using different various dialects were at
and Baugh exper- getting an open house appointment
iment (1999)
Wanted to test if there was dialect based discrimination and whether ethnic group
aflliation was recoverable from speech
Specifically, they wanted to know the extent to which discrimination by race or
ethnicity could be based only on linguistic profiling
People's attitudes on speakers is what governs their attitude towards a specific
dialect
Had people that used different dialects call to ask about an apartment open house
in different cities using their respective dialects
There was a correlation between the population of the cities and the percentage
of aflrmative responses the callers got
When the callers only used the word hello, responders were still able to identify
dialects 70% of the time
13. Contralateral input from one side of the body is received by the opposite side of the brain
control
14. Where are the Left hemisphere
written and spo-
ken language
functions located
in the brain?
15. Dichotic listening Different sounds are played in both ears simultaneously
test Subjects reported only hearing the sound being played into the right ear
Therefore, strong left hemisphere bias
16. Split brain patient Patient could draw, but not describe what he saw in his left field of vision (because
experiments it was received in his right brain, where he did not have the ability to use language
to describe what he saw)
