EL102

Received Pronunciation is the regionally neutral accent.

• TRUE

• FALSE INTONATION

• FALSE STANDARD

Standard dialects have a distinct  grammar, lexis and pronunciation.

• TRUE

• FALSE DIALECT

• FALSE NON STANDARD

Standard English refers to a style of language used to suit a setting where the audience is large, not personally known, or in authority.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Non standard English is perceived as official and an appropriate choice of  style in media writing and by teachers, the education system.

• TRUE

• FALSE STANDARD

• FALSE LOWER CLASS

• FALSE INTONATION

Speakers from upper classes tend to use nonstandard dialect features more excessively.

• TRUE

• FALSE INTONATION

• FALSE LOWER CLASS

Received Pronunciation is a social dialect, not a geographical one, because it is  not linked to a particular region.

• TRUE

• FALSE STANDARD

• FALSE NON STANDARD

Nonstandard English is still referred to and spoken by British people who have a very high,   perhaps even the highest, social status. 

• TRUE

• FALSE STANDARD

• FALSE UPPER CLASS

Standard English is  the accents, the dialects, the vocabulary that vary according to where you live, or what social group you are in. 

• TRUE

• FALSE NON STANDARD

• FALSE LOWER CLASS

The use of nonstandard dialect words, grammar and pronunciation decreases the longer an individual spends in education.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Nonstandard dialects are often wrongly perceived as being correct but linguists persistently stress that Standard English is in no form superior to any spoken dialect.

• TRUE

• FALSE INCORRECT

• FALSE STANDARD