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Ling 115: Test 2There _____ be variation without change; there _____ be change without
variation. - correct answer ✔can; cannot
Which of the following is most consistent with the apparent time hypothesis? -
correct answer ✔Speakers' language does not change much during their
lifetimes, so we can see language change in progress by comparing the
language of older and younger speakers at a single point in time.
The mystery of why a linguistic change happens at a particular moment in
history, rather than earlier or later, is known as the... - correct answer
✔actuation problem
When a dialect changes toward the standard, _____ tend to lead the change,
and when a dialect changes away from the standard, _____ tend to lead the
change. - correct answer ✔women, women
If a particular variant is more frequent in the English of younger members of a
particular sociocultural group than in the English of older members of the
same group, which of the following can we conclude? - correct answer ✔A.
This is a case of change in progress.
B. This is a case of age grading.
C. It is (a) and/or (b), but we can't know for sure without further research.
, A researcher begins a 20-year trend study by documenting the English of
some 20- and 40-year-old speakers in West Virginia. Which of the following is
NOT a possible outcome of the follow-up study 20 years later? - correct
answer ✔The English of the 40-year-old speakers in the follow-up study is
very similar to the English of the 40-year-old speakers in the original sample
from 20 years earlier.
The English of the 40-year-old speakers in the follow-up study is very similar
to the English of 20-year-old speakers in the original sample from 20 years
earlier.
The 20-year follow-up study cannot be completed because too many of the
speakers from the original sample have died or moved away.
All of the above are possible outcomes of the trend study. - put all of the
above and got it wrong
Ethnic dialects of English exist for which of the following reasons? - correct
answer ✔a history of segregation in the U.S.
influence of different ancestral languages
speakers' desire to mark their ethnic identity
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