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Test por Nancy Gonzalez, actualizado hace más de 1 año
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Creado por Nancy Gonzalez
hace casi 6 años
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Pregunta 1
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Dictionaries, specific language used by particular groups, jargon are examples of this
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lexicon
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rubicon
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vocabulary
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dialect
Pregunta 2
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The teacher reads a student sentence and describes how the language components are actually being used and does not point out if it is wrong or right.
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prescriptive grammar
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semantics
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pragmatics
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descriptive grammar
Pregunta 3
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African American Vernacular English has a habitual tense that does not really exist in Standard English. (EX: "He be workin")
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- True
- False
Pregunta 4
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These sounds are created without obstructing flow of air.
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vowels
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consonants
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/a/, /e/
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/b/, /t/
Pregunta 5
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The student asks if she can go to the bathroom, the teacher responds with, "May I go?" This is an example of
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descriptive grammar
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prescriptive grammar
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preferred grammar
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approximate grammar
Pregunta 6
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A consonant sound is produced with definite and clear obstruction of air by the
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lips
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teeth
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palate
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tongue
Pregunta 7
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Bill Labov studies the shift in the pronunciation of short vowels like in the words "boss and bus' in northern American cities. This is an example of
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chronology
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morphology
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phonology
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biology
Pregunta 8
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Stops block the airflow and let it go abruptly; they are ALL voiced including /p/, /t/, and /k/
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- True
- False
Pregunta 9
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"That's bad" can be understood as something actually being horrible (negative) or it can mean cool or awesome (positive); it depends on the context of the situation. This is an example of
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syntax
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approximation
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pragmatics
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AAVE
Pregunta 10
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Glides move your tongue to or from a vowel. Examples of these are
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/w/, /j/
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/l/, /r/
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/b/, /d/
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/p/, /t/
Pregunta 11
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Studying why adding an -s does not make words plural (EX: mail+s=mails; She mails the letters on Monday) is an example of
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phonemics
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morphology
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monopoly
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phonology
Pregunta 12
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"I ain't saying nothin to no one" is an example of double negation for Standard American English.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 13
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The study of language is
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semantics
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pragmatics
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linguistics
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phonetics
Pregunta 14
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Fricatives can continue indefinitely until you are out of air. Examples of these fricatives can be found in the following words:
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sitter
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chair
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zebra
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joy
Pregunta 15
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Affricatives /ch/ and /j/ are two part consonant sounds which means they start as a stop and end as a fricative.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 16
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If you study shades of meaning in words like snicker, cackle, and laugh then you are a student of semantics.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 17
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An example of dialect is Chinese to the Cantonese language.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 18
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Approximants are vowel-like consonants because we don't block the airflow fully. Examples of these are:
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liquids
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glides
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/j/, /w/
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/l/, /r/
Pregunta 19
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The study of how language is used and shaped by the social nature of human beings is sociolinguistics.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 20
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Liquids /l/ and /r/ as heard in the words load and road share the following characteristics
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are voiced
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are voiceless
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raise and curl tongue, and let airflow escape around the sides
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raise and curl tongue, and do not let airflow escape around the sides
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