Jean Aitchison Part 4

One of the clues to explain the variation in /r/-inclusion in New York is that New Yorkers wish they did not talk like … (p. 56)

	Alabamians
	New Yorkers
	Westerners
	Americans

Labov found that hypercorrection was … (p. 58)

	commoner in men than in women
	commoner in women than in men
	commoner in younger people than in older people
	commoner in older people than in younger people

Martha’s Vineyard is … (p. 60)

	an island off the east coast of mainland America
	the fishermen’s part of an island off the west coast of mainland America
	an island off the west coast of mainland America
	the summer visitors’ area of an island off the east coast of mainland America

The pronunciation of house as /h?us/ was … (p. 63)

	an old-fashioned feature in the fishermen’s pronunciation
	particularly prominent in the speech of the 15-30 age group
	brought to the island as a modern feature in the speech of the summer visitors
	more prominent in casual speech than in formal speech

The discipline of … tries to calculate how long ago any two languages separated (p. 32).

	glottology
	glottogenetics
	glottochronology
	glottography

The change in Martha’s vineyard is … (p. 66-7)

	conscious and from above
	conscious and from below
	unconscious and from above
	unconscious and from below