AGE AND GENDER 2

As people age, their speech from ________ becomes __________, then ___________

• less standard, more standard, less standard

• more standard, less standard, more standard

• less standard, more standard, more standard

People in 30-50s tend to use more vernacular form.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Factors affecting the use of vernacular form in teenagers are ......

• Peer Pressure

• Membership

• Vernacular form as solidarity marker

• All of the above

In the multilingual context of Montreal, bilingualism functions as the equivalent of linguistic prestige in a monolingual community.

• True

• False

Age-grading occurs when the community as a whole changes their linguistic behavior throughout their lifetimes.

• True

• False

Older people / elderly tend to use ________ form when they move out of the workforce and into a more relaxed phase of their lives.

• less standard

• more standard

The following are all the factors that affect social dialect except

• Education

• Income level

• Occupation

• Region

Slang can be defined as _____________________.

• A distinctive way of pronouncing a language associated with a particular country, area, or social class.

• A new language created and use in a group of community

• A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.