Q Variation in speech and language patterns across groups of people
a) Rhythm
b) Intonation
c) Dialects
d) Stress
Q Geography, immigration routes, language contact, settlement patterns are what factors
a) ways speech and language parameters are changing
b) Sociohistoric factors of a regional dialect
c) Linguistic factors or American English
d) Regional Dialects
Q Which of the following definitions best describes “language acquisition”
a) The process by which a society’s vernacular varies
b) The process by which linguistics are applied to sociology
c) The process by which the linguistic ability develops in a human
d) The process by which linguistics ability develops in an animal
Q Psycholinguistics is the study of what two factors that enable humans to use a language
a) Psychological and neurobiological
b) Sociological and biological
c) Linguistic and developmental
d) Biological and Developmental
Q Which of the following does the study of sociolinguistics not include
a) The context in which language is used
b) Cultural norms/expectations of languages
c) Original development of languages
d) Linguistics
Q Which of the following is NOT an area that cognitive linguistics focuses on
a) Autonomous linguistic faculty
b) Word evolution over time
c) Conceptualization
d) Language use
Q Which of the following is another name for historical linguistics
a) Diachronic linguistics
b) Paleolinguistics
c) Histolinguism
d) Conceptualization
Q Which of the following is the study of languages as spoken/written in samples of real text, rather than of grammar rules
a) Syntax
b) Corpus linguistics
c) Postulate linguistics
d) Histolinguism