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5 Written questions

1. represents a boundary between the areas with regard to one linguistic term

2. Regional variation as existing along a continuum rather than having sharp breaks from one region to the next.

3. the study of dialects.

4. Development from pidgin to creole

5. Everyone has one! It's how you speak!

5 Matching questions

A. Occurs more often when a minority group lives in an area

1. decreolization
with a different majority language. French and English in
canada, most learn french to speak among their families
2. Diglossia
and friends, but learn english to get along in the society.

3. Bilingual
B. A speaker of two different dialects. Often occurs when one
person moves back and forth across borders. The speaker
4. Biliguialism
will often shift depending on where or who he is talking
with. Most of us grow up with this, our dirty street speek,
5. Bidialectical and our classy class speech.

C. Two distinct languages known.

D. the retreat from the use of the creole by those who have
greater contact with a standard variety of the language.

E. there is a "low" variety, acquired locally and used for

everyday affairs, and a "high" pr special variety, learned in
school and used for important matters.

5 Multiple choice questions

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1. The ability to understand two different dialects of the same language. Used to distinguish two different dialects of the same
language (whose speakers can understand each other) and two different languages (whose speakers can't understand each
other.)

A. Bidialectical

B. Mutual Intelligibility

C. Dialect boundary

D. decreolization

2. Aspects of language variation based on where the language is used.

A. Standard Language

B. Linguistic geography

C. Dialect continuum

D. Post-creole continuum

3. Features of only one variety of structures and words of a language.

A. Dialect continuum

B. Standard Language

C. Post-creole continuum

D. Linguistic geography

4. Differences in features such as vocabulary and grammar, as well as some aspects of pronunciation.

A. Dialect

B. Diglossia

C. Creole

D. Isogloss

5. The main source of words in the pidgin

A. Accent

B. Bilingual

C. Lexifer

D. Dialectology

5 True/False questions

1. non-mobile, older, rural, male speakers. Selected as they are assumed to be less likely to have influences from outside the
region on their speech. → Creole

True

False

2. Variety of a language that developed from some practical purpose, such as trading, among groups of people who had a lot
of contact, but who did not know each other's languages. → Pidgin

True

False

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3. When a pidgin becomes the first language of a social community. The pidgin develops beyond its role as a trade or contact
language. → Creole

True

False

4. Have to plan which variety or varieties of the languages spoken in the country are to be used for official
business. → Standard Language

True

False

5. Range of varieties between a creole and its "higher" variety of the language.  → Linguistic geography

True

False

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