Test7 Results
Test7 Results
Test7 Results
1) The term accent is used of dialectal varieties that differ just in grammar.
Your answer: True
Comment: No, accents are dialects that differ primarily in phonetics and/or
phonology.
10) One factor that can influence the choice of language in a bilingual situation is the
domain of the speech interaction.
Your answer: False
Comment: See p.168.
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20) The situation in which interlocutors adopt features of one another's speech is called:
Your answer: disaffiliation
Comment: See p.164.
21) Reduction of word final consonant clusters is a defining feature of African American
Vernacular English.
Your answer: True
Comment: No. Although it happens in AAVE, it is not unique to this
variety.
22) What sort of speech variety would a variety of a language used when speaking to
animals be?
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