Self-Test Quiz for Weeks 9, 10 and 11

1.  According to Milroy's article on British and American ideologies of language:
      a.  Both ideologies are the same since both countries speak English
      b.  Both ideologies consider British English better than American English
      c.   Both ideologies are concerned with "bad language," but the British ideology focuses on class-based dialects.
      d.  Both ideologies look at racial differences, but ignore class-based dialect difference.

2.  Which of the following is an example of semantic inversion?
       a.  When I say "That's sick" I mean it's really good.
       b.  When I say "Everything is turned upside down" I meant that I'm confused
       c.  When I say "Ninja, baby!" I mean "That's good!"
       d.  When I say "No problemo" I am using a mock register

3.  An example of how sex differences affect human language would be:
        a.  Women have much larger vocabularies than men
        b.  On average, men have lower-pitched voices than women due to their larger voice boxes.
        c.   As children, boys and girls are socialized in same-sex play groups.
        d.  Women have been shown to be more polite because they are physically smaller than men.

4.  Which of the following would be an example of hypercorrection?
        a.  A non-native speaker of English knows that the past tense is formed by adding "-ed" to the verb, so he says "I readed the book yesterday".
        b.  An AAVE speaker knows that "He like" is non-standard English, so he says not only "He likes," but "I likes" in a formal situation.
        c.  Both A and B
        d.  Neither A nor B.

5.  Where would you expect to hear glossolalia?
        a.  At an anthropology convention
        b.  At a church where people speak in tongues
        c.  At a White House press conveference
        d.  In the men's house of Gapun, a village in New Guinea

6.  Multiple negation:
        a.  Is a feature of many of the world's languages
        b.  Is illogical
        c.  Is considered "bad English" in both America and Britain
        d.  All of the above
        e.  A and B only
        f.  A and C only

7.  In AAVE, habitual "be" is used
       a.  to indicate repeated action  (She be asking me for help every day)
       b.  to describe a constant feature or relationship (He be my father)
       c.  inconsistently, making it difficult to pinpoint it's exact meaning
       d.  only with multiple negation (She ain't never been here)

8.  One difference between the social network approach and the class approach to language is:
       a.  The social network approach focuses on differences between groups and the class approach doesn't.
       b.  The social network approach focuses on similarities within a group and the class focuses on differences between classes.
        c.  The social network approach considers both caste and class, but the class approach doesn;t.
        d.  The class approach focuses on accent differences.

9.  According to the "two cultures" model of gender and linguistic difference
        a.  Men are scum
        b.  Women and men come from different but overlapping speech communities
        c.  Women's speech is shaped by their social deference to male authority
        d.  When women say "mhmm" they mean "I agree"

10.  In Russian, there are two different words for friend, one referring to a female friend and one referring to a male friend.  This is an example of
         a.  cultural gender associations
         b.  conversational style
          c.  gendered linguistic behavior
        d.  obligatory linguistic gender distinctions