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Which of the following holds that refusing to provide accommodations for non- English speaking children is a form of discrimination? A. The Bilingual Education Act B. Meyers v. Nebraska C. Lau v. Nichols D. Prop 227 - correct answer ✔✔C. T/F: The actual result of Prop 227 is that all bilingual programs in CA are submersion type programs. - correct answer ✔✔False A language with speakers in their 30s but no speakers under the age of 20 should be described as A. Safe B. Extinct C. Endangered D. Moribund - correct answer ✔✔C. The superstratum language is one that A. has, relatively speaking, the most power. B. has the longest history. C. is the lingua franca of the region. D. is spoken by the most people in the region. - correct answer ✔✔A The vocabulary of a creole comes from A. the default settings of parameters (under the Universal Grammar theory). B. all of the languages that contribute to the creole. C. Portuguese.
D. the superstratum language. - correct answer ✔✔D Which contact situation created Tok Pisin? A. War/Military Occupation B. Trade C. Immigration D. Plantations - correct answer ✔✔A Which contact situation created Hawaiian Pidgin? A. War/Military Occupation B. Trade C. Immigration D. Plantations - correct answer ✔✔D What is the superstratum language for Russo-Chinese Pidgin spoken in Shanghai in the 1920s? A. English B. Shanghainese C. Russian D. Portuguese - correct answer ✔✔C T/F: There are no known instance of a new language being formed by swapping out the vocabulary words of another language while preserving the sentence structure of that other language. - correct answer ✔✔False Why was the implementation of Indonesian in Indonesia more successful than the implementation of Filipino in the Phillipines? A. Everyone knew that Filipino was just Tagalog by another name whereas Indonesian was a completely new language. B. Indonesian was wide spread, spoken by most people in the country, but Filipino was not.
A. a lingua franca B. an official language C. a national language D. a nonprestigious language - correct answer ✔✔A The poor country of Lawnville has just recently won its independence from Flowerville. It is trying to decide whether to use Flowerese as its official language or Lawnese. Lawnese has a written form, but it's not currently used in any educational setting. Which will they probably choose? A. Flowerese. Because Lawnese isn't used in an educational setting, not very people will know it, but most people will have learned Flowerese during the time that Flowerville controlled the government. B. Flowerese. Because Lawnese isn't used in an educational setting it isn't standardized and will need to have its function elaborated. This will be expensive. C. Lawnese. Even if implementing Lawnese is expensive, its important that official languages be native to the area so that they are accepted. D. Lawnese. Flowerville probably won't allow Lawnville to use Flowerese because such a restriction is common in colonial situations. - correct answer ✔✔B Lingala (in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) is an example of A. A widely spoken official language B. A lingua franca C. A widely spoken national language D. A national language only spoken by a small percentage of the population - correct answer ✔✔D T/F: The official language of the province of Quebec (not Canada as a whole) is only French. - correct answer ✔✔True T/F: If a country is societally bilingual, that means that there are a lot of bilingual people in it. - correct answer ✔✔False T/F: The official language of Lebanon doesn't have any mother tongue speakers. - correct answer ✔✔True
The effect of Prop 63 in California is that: A. California has an extensive bilingual education system in the schools B. California publishes official government materials in English only. C. California must promote English, but it can and does still publish official government materials in many languages. D. California must publish official government materials in many languages because of Prop. 63. - correct answer ✔✔C What percentage of Californians are monolingual in English (according to the 2000 census data)? A. 90 B. 82 C. 60 D. 10 - correct answer ✔✔C What percentage of the US speaks English monolingually? A. 90 B. 82 C. 60 D. 10 - correct answer ✔✔B When did the government of California begin using English? A. When California was colonized, establishing an English speaking colonial government over the indigenous population. B. After the United States bought the California territory from Mexico as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. C. After the United States conquered the California territory, ending with the Treaty of Pablo-Esperanto. D. After France gave the California territory to the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War. - correct answer ✔✔B
D. A Face Threatening Act - correct answer ✔✔D T/F: The polite way for people of the same status to address eachother (T-form or V- form) is different from one culture to another. - correct answer ✔✔True A language with honorifics will use different ________________ depending on how much solidarity vs. power the speaker wishes to communicate. A. forms of address B. nouns and verbs C. None of the above D. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔D According to the theory of Linguistic Determinism, a speaker of Javanese A. Will automatically make fine-grained social judgments about everyone he/she meets. B. Might make fine-grained social judgments about the people he/she meets depending on other factors, such as his/her career. C. Won't automatically make any social judgments about the people he/she meets. D. Will only make social judgments about the people he/she meets if the situation seems to require it. - correct answer ✔✔A Edward Sapir was A. a Yale professor who focused on how having different vocabularies might contribute to different world views. B. a former student of linguistics who focused on how having different grammatical features might contribute to different world views. C. a Yale professor who focused on how having different grammatical features might contribute to different world views. D. a former student of linguistics who focused on how having different vocabularies might contribute to different world views. - correct answer ✔✔A T/F: Inuit (Eskimo) has over 40 words for snow. - correct answer ✔✔False
T/F: Under the theory of linguistic relativity, a speaker of Javanese is more likely to notice markers of social status than a speaker of French. - correct answer ✔✔True Gender, as used in socio-linguistic research, is largely A. a socially defined distinction. B. a biologically defined distinction. C. a distinction defined by the researcher. D. a distinction defined by the government. - correct answer ✔✔A
