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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.
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