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1.4 Short Review

Authored by Audrey Hagar

English

11th Grade

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1.4 Short Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Estuary English?

A type of the English language and how things are spelled

An England based accent founded in the 1980s, often used by young people, and associated with the Random Fluctuation Theory

A theorist

A slang type of English language

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Charles Hockett founded the Random Fluctuation Theory which is

Language has placeholders

That language develops in a more random way

That language is affected by cognitive development

No relation to any of the other theories

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Cultural Transmission Theory was founded by four different theories and this theory

involves transmitting information from person to person through imitation and teaching as well as language

Deals with how children perceive adults

Deals with the uneven use of language

Involves Estuary English

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Substratum Theory was founded by William Labov. This theory focuses on the influence of different Englishes

True

False

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How does the evolution of the English language over time demonstrate its flexibility and adaptability?

By maintaining its original form without any changes

By incorporating words and phrases from other languages

By becoming more difficult to learn

By reducing the number of speakers worldwide

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A lexical gap are words that do not exist in every language

True

False

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The theory of Lexical Gaps is tied to which theorist?

Deutscher

Halliday

Aitchison

Millroy

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