George Yule Part 6

1. William Jones based his hypothesis of the relationship between what later came to be known as ´Indo-European languages´ on a comparison between …

	English, French and Latin
	English, Latin and Greek
	Greek, Egyptian and Hebrew
	Sanskrit, Latin and Greek

 

2. Which language belongs to the Indo-European language family?

	Basque
	Finnish
	Welsh
	Turkish

 

3. Which two languages do not belong to the Indo-European language family?

	Hungarian and Finnish
	Norwegian and Swedish
	Romanian and Portuguese
	Russian and Czech

 

4. Which Indo-European language has most native speakers?

	English
	Hindi
	Russian
	Spanish

 

5. Words from two languages which are, or used be, similar in form and meaning (such as mother and Mutter) are called …

	calques
	cognates
	collocates
	coinage

 

6. Which of the following sound changes is the most likely to happen?

	Final vowels disappear
	Voiced consonant become voiceless between vowels
	Final consonants become voiced
	Fricatives become stops

 

7. The language of Shakespeare belongs to the … period.

	Middle English
	Early Modern English
	Modern English
	Old English

 

8. In the two hundred years from … the sound of English underwent a substantial change.

	1200-1400
	1400-1600
	1600-1800
	1800-2000

 

9. The word … exemplifies a process known as broadening of meaning.

	bird
	holiday
	werewolf
	wife

 

10. Dealing with language from the historical perspective of change through time is dealing with language …

	conventionally
	diachronically
	hierarchically
	metaphorically

 

11. The term dialect refers to a variety with its own features in the area(s) of …

	pronunciation only
	pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar
	vocabulary only
	pronunciation and vocabulary, but not grammar

 

12. The boundary line which can be drawn between any two areas with respect to one language feature is called …

	isogloss
	diglossia
	interlace
	interlanguage

 

13. A … is a language which was developed as a ´compromise´ between speakers who did not share a common language.

	pidgin
	basilect
	jargon
	hotchpotch

 

14. … is officially a bilingual country.

	Australia
	Britain
	Canada
	The USA

 

15. Investigating the norms and expectations of a speech community with regards to language is the concern of …

	morphology
	glossogenetics
	psycholinguistics
	sociolinguistics

 

16. In a famous experiment carried out in New York, Labov found that social class and the pronunciation of … were related.

	the phoneme /r/
	back vowels
	the phoneme /h/
	final consonants

 

17. Labov carried out this experiment in three different …

	pubs
	cinemas
	department stores
	hospitals1

 

18. Recent research in gender differences in language claims to have found out that men … than women.

	use fewer non-standards forms
	talk more frequently about their feelings
	use more question tags
	interrupt more frequently

 

19. BEV (Black English Vernacular) is characterised by the frequent absence of …

	the copula be
	question tags
	the Past Tense
	possessive pronouns

 

20. The dialect of each individual speaker is called …

	register
	ideolect
	jargon
	drivel

 

21. The theory of linguistic determinism claims that …

	your language determines your social status
	your social status determines your language
	your language determines the way you perceive the world
	the way you perceive the world determines your language

 

22. ´We dissect nature along the lines laid down for us by our native languages´ is a quotation from the works of …

	Noam Chomsky
	William Labov
	Peter Trudgill
	Benjamin Whorf

 

23. The common properties shared by all languages are called …

	language universals
	global issues
	international verbage
	cosmic laws