Jamaican Language Situation

What are Jamaica's Languages

• Jamaican English and Spanish

• Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole

• Jamaican Creole and Spanish

• Jamaican Creole, Jamaican English and Spanish

Who is a bilingual

• Someone who knows or speaks two languages

• Someone who speaks or knows three or more languages

• someone who knows or speaks only one language

• someone who knows languages

What are the two types of bilingualism

• Successive and satisfactory

• Simultaneous and satisfactory

• Simultaneous and successive

• Successive and simple

What is Successive Bilingualism

• successive bilingualism involves input of the 2nd language beginning before birth

• successive bilingualism involves input of the 2nd language at high school

• successive bilingualism involves input of the 2nd language

• successive bilingualism involves input of the 2nd language beginning after birth

What is Simultaneous Bilingualism

• Simultaneous bilingualism involves input of the 2nd language beginning after birth

• Simultaneous bilingualism is the term used to refer to the acquisition of 2 languages from birth

• Simultaneous bilingualism is the term used to refer to the acquisition of 2 languages after birth

• Simultaneous bilingualism is the term used to refer to the acquisition of 2 languages

What is the Speech Continuum?

• This is a continuous spectrum of speech varieties of the standard variety

• This is a continuous spectrum of speech varieties of the Creole

• This is a continuous spectrum of speech varieties ranging from the Creole to the standard variety at either pole

• This is continuous speech varieties

The three terms in the speech continuum are

• acrolect, basilect and mesolect

• acrolect, idiolect and mesolect

• sociolect, basilect and acrolect

• acrolect, dialect and basilect

Each speaker commands a span of the spectrum between the basilect and the acrolect. What does the breadth of the span depend on?

• Education, input and location

• input, race and location

• Education, social contacts on a daily basis and input

• social contacts on a daily basis , race and location

True or False. Jamaica has two languages with distinct functions in society

• True

• False

What are Cognates?

• Cognates are items belonging to the speaker’s language systems

• Cognates are items of ambiguous affiliation, belonging to the speaker’s two systems this no doubt contributes to what we have called the blurring of boundaries between the two languages

• Cognates are items of ambiguous affiliation, belonging to the speaker’s language systems

• Cognates are items of unambiguous affiliation, belonging to the speaker’s two systems this no doubt contributes to what we have called the blurring of boundaries between the two languages