Regional variation (review)

What is meant by the "standard language"?

• A language variety spoken by a small, elite group within a society.

• A language considered inferior by speakers.

• A language variety heavily influenced by foreign languages.

• An idealized variety associated with administrative, commercial, education.

What is a regional variation?

• Variations in language use based on social status or education level.

• Changes in language over time.

• The presence of languages spoken within the same geographic area.

• Variation in language use based on where they are used.

A situation where a language that has two forms, one a 'higher' and more prestigious form used by educated speakers in formal situations, and the other a 'lower', vernacular form used more commonly.

• Monolingual

• Isogloss

• Diglossia

• Contact languages

What aspect is the difference between dialect and accent?

• grammar

• pronunciation

• vocabulary

• language use

A variety of a language that developed from a pidgin and is used as a first language by a population of native speakers.

• Creole

• Substrate

• Creolization

• Superstrate

What is an isogloss?

• A line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features.
• A boundary separating two different languages.

• A linguistic feature shared by multiple dialects.

• A method for measuring regional variations in pronunciation.

Then, what is a linguistic boundary?

• It marks the separation between different languages.

• A term used to describe variations in grammar within a dialect.

• A geographical area where multiple languages are spoken interchangeably.

• A line on a map marking the transition between two distinct linguistic features.

What is the name of the process described as choosing and developing an official language or languages for use in government and education?

• The lexifier language

• The post-creole continuum

• Language planning

• Dialect continuum

What does this picture show?

• diglossia

• a dialect continuum

• a creole continuum

• a codification of language

What is the Great Vowel Shift?

• An event where consonants in English words shifted to different positions.

• A process where vowels in English underwent changes in pronunciation.

• A grammatical shift in English that resulted in the loss of case endings.

• A change in the stress patterns of English words during the medieval period.