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LING 115 FinalWhich of the following holds that refusing to provide accommodations for non-English speaking children
is a form of discrimination?
A. The Bilingual Education Act
B. Meyers v. Nebraska
C. Lau v. Nichols
D. Prop 227 - correct answer ✔✔C.
T/F: The actual result of Prop 227 is that all bilingual programs in CA are submersion type programs. -
correct answer ✔✔False
A language with speakers in their 30s but no speakers under the age of 20 should be described as
A. Safe
B. Extinct
C. Endangered
D. Moribund - correct answer ✔✔C.
The superstratum language is one that
A. has, relatively speaking, the most power.
B. has the longest history.
C. is the lingua franca of the region.
D. is spoken by the most people in the region. - correct answer ✔✔A
The vocabulary of a creole comes from
A. the default settings of parameters (under the Universal Grammar theory).
B. all of the languages that contribute to the creole.
C. Portuguese.
, D. the superstratum language. - correct answer ✔✔D
Which contact situation created Tok Pisin?
A. War/Military Occupation
B. Trade
C. Immigration
D. Plantations - correct answer ✔✔A
Which contact situation created Hawaiian Pidgin?
A. War/Military Occupation
B. Trade
C. Immigration
D. Plantations - correct answer ✔✔D
What is the superstratum language for Russo-Chinese Pidgin spoken in Shanghai in the 1920s?
A. English
B. Shanghainese
C. Russian
D. Portuguese - correct answer ✔✔C
T/F: There are no known instance of a new language being formed by swapping out the vocabulary
words of another language while preserving the sentence structure of that other language. - correct
answer ✔✔False
Why was the implementation of Indonesian in Indonesia more successful than the implementation of
Filipino in the Phillipines?
A. Everyone knew that Filipino was just Tagalog by another name whereas Indonesian was a completely
new language.
B. Indonesian was wide spread, spoken by most people in the country, but Filipino was not.
C. Filipino needed a lot of work to be a suitable official language whereas Indonesian did not.
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