Varieties of English

Rhoticity is a phonological feature concerned with:

• Vowels

• Consonants

• The letter r

• The letter y

AAVE and Irish English both use a tense not seen in General English. This tense is known as:

• Present Continuous

• Preterite

  (simple past)

• Compound Past

• Habitual

Elision is __________ while ellipsis is __________ .

• Phonological; syntactic

• Syntactic; phonological

• Phonological; semantic

• Semantic; phonological

'She be working' is an example of:

• Standard English be

• Elision of be

• Assimilation of be

• Invariable be

Standard Jamaican English has a higher prestige than colloquial Jamaican English that uses Patois

• True

• False

In the phrase 'he was dying for peace-like.' Like functions as a/an:

• Inflectional Suffix

• Bound Suffix

• Free Suffix

• Stem

In the phrase 'me car wan' go garage'. Me is

• Standard object pronoun

• Non-standard object pronoun

• Standard subject pronoun

• Non-standard subject pronoun

Which of the following examples demonstrates a sound merge

• Irish English:
  Something > someting

  /θ/ > /t/

• Jamaican English

  car > cyar

  /k/ > /kj/

• Irish English

  spose > shpose

  /s/ > /ʃ/

• Indian English

  way > vay

  /w/ > /v/

Which of the following is an example of a pronoun:

• Irish English:
  craic

• Irish English:

  'tis/'twas

• Indian English:

  I have not personally

• Indian English:

  I am myself

Identify the inflectional suffix

• Irish English

  wee-uns

• Jamaican English:

  likkle

• Indian English

  answering

• AAVE

  He be working