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Wednesday 4 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level English Language
H470/02 Dimensions of linguistic variation
Resource Booklet
Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
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INSTRUCTIONS
• Use this Resource Booklet to answer all the questions.
• Do not send this Resource Booklet for marking. Keep it in the centre or recycle it.
INFORMATION
• This document has 8 pages.
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Section A
Child language acquisition
Text A
Text A is a transcript from a private data source. Nina (aged three and eleven months) is reading a
book about birds with her two fathers, Kobe and Zac.
Zac: what birds can you see on there [with rising intonation]
Nina: [reads] my first name is Kate
Zac: what bird is she [with rising intonation] can you remember [with rising intonation]
Nina: don’t know
Zac: /s/ (.) /s/
Nina: seagull
Zac: not seagull (.) swan
Nina: /s/ɒ/n/ (.) /s/ɒ/n/
Zac: nearly (.) it’s a swan
Nina: what bird is this [with rising intonation]
Kobe: that [with rising intonation] that’s a robin
Nina: robin (2.0) do they sting [with rising intonation]
Kobe: do they sting [with rising intonation] no they’re lovely little birds (1.0) they’ll be scared of
you (.) they’ll fly away when they see you
Nina: no
Zac: we see them in the park sometimes don’t we [with rising intonation]
Nina: don’t want them fly away
Kobe: I don’t want them to fly away either (.) but they get scared
Nina: do you know why they get scared of us [with rising intonation]
Kobe: why do you think [with rising intonation]
Nina: don’t know
Kobe: if you saw me and you were a bird what would you think [with rising intonation]
Nina: erm
Kobe: so you’re a little bird like this then you see me go in the garden (.) what would you think
[with rising intonation]
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Nina: I might fly away
Kobe: you might fly away (.) why
Nina: I don’t know
Kobe: I’m a bit big, aren’t I, compared to a bird [with rising intonation]
Nina: yeah
Kobe: or even you (.) you’d be big and scary to a robin
Transcription Key
(.) micropause
(1/2/3) pause in seconds
underlined words emphasis
[italicised text ] paralinguistic feature
IPA has been used where necessary to indicate non-standard pronunciation
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Wednesday 4 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level English Language
H470/02 Dimensions of linguistic variation
Resource Booklet
Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
* 1 3 5 5 8 2 3 3 3 2 *
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use this Resource Booklet to answer all the questions.
• Do not send this Resource Booklet for marking. Keep it in the centre or recycle it.
INFORMATION
• This document has 8 pages.
© OCR 2025 [601/4702/7] OCR is an exempt Charity
DC (CJ/SG) 339457/3 Turn over
for more: tyrionpapers.com
, 2
Section A
Child language acquisition
Text A
Text A is a transcript from a private data source. Nina (aged three and eleven months) is reading a
book about birds with her two fathers, Kobe and Zac.
Zac: what birds can you see on there [with rising intonation]
Nina: [reads] my first name is Kate
Zac: what bird is she [with rising intonation] can you remember [with rising intonation]
Nina: don’t know
Zac: /s/ (.) /s/
Nina: seagull
Zac: not seagull (.) swan
Nina: /s/ɒ/n/ (.) /s/ɒ/n/
Zac: nearly (.) it’s a swan
Nina: what bird is this [with rising intonation]
Kobe: that [with rising intonation] that’s a robin
Nina: robin (2.0) do they sting [with rising intonation]
Kobe: do they sting [with rising intonation] no they’re lovely little birds (1.0) they’ll be scared of
you (.) they’ll fly away when they see you
Nina: no
Zac: we see them in the park sometimes don’t we [with rising intonation]
Nina: don’t want them fly away
Kobe: I don’t want them to fly away either (.) but they get scared
Nina: do you know why they get scared of us [with rising intonation]
Kobe: why do you think [with rising intonation]
Nina: don’t know
Kobe: if you saw me and you were a bird what would you think [with rising intonation]
Nina: erm
Kobe: so you’re a little bird like this then you see me go in the garden (.) what would you think
[with rising intonation]
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Nina: I might fly away
Kobe: you might fly away (.) why
Nina: I don’t know
Kobe: I’m a bit big, aren’t I, compared to a bird [with rising intonation]
Nina: yeah
Kobe: or even you (.) you’d be big and scary to a robin
Transcription Key
(.) micropause
(1/2/3) pause in seconds
underlined words emphasis
[italicised text ] paralinguistic feature
IPA has been used where necessary to indicate non-standard pronunciation
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