sociolinguistics week 6 Bayley..Villarreal

language attitudes are......

• affective,

• behavioral,

• cognitive

an umbrella term that includes languages and dialects, but avoid negativity of the term dialect

• variety

• variant

• accent

Braj Kachru’s (1985) influential “circles of English” model has got ..................circles

• one

• two

• three

Select an inner-circle country

• Korean-English

• British English

• Singaporean-English

Select an outer-circle English variety

• Uzbek-English

• Australian

• Nigerian-English

Select an expanding circle English

• Ukrainian-English

• American English

• South African English

The difference in the classification of -in and -ing in the verb like walkin and walking is that.................

• the first is traditional, the other is modern

• the former is informal, the latter is formal

• the first is acceptable, the other is unacceptable

There is a correlation between vowel duration in one's pronunciation with their intelligence

• True

• False

• Sometimes

Two negatives make positive is not only mathematical rule, it is also grammatical rule

• True

• False

Baugh (2007) found that speakers who were perceived as sounding African American or Chicano were less likely to do sales negotiations on housing

• True

• False

• Sometimes