بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اسئلة واجوبة Sociolinguistics 422 للعام 1429 الترم الثاني
الدكتور عبدالله الشهري
ي 50 سؤال ولكن هذا وبعضها صح وخطأ(6)
1- Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between
a. language and sociology
b. language and society
c. dialects of the same language
2- Sociolinguistics is
a. a general linguistics course
b. an inter-disciplinary course
c. a theoretical linguistics course
3- An idiolect means
a. the unique characteristics of the language of a particular society
b. the unique characteristics of the language of an individual
c. the unique characteristics of the language of native speakers
4- An accent refers to the
a. regional phonetic distinctions of the speech of a group of people
b. the pronunciation of someone who speaks a language with non-native pronunciation
c. a & b
5- A dialect is a term which can be used to describe
a. regional speech variation
b. social speech variation
c. a & b
6- Each living language represents
a. a single dialect
b. a standard dialect
c. a collection of dialects
7- Language varieties which are mutually unintelligible are usually considered
a. dialects of the same language
b. different languages
c. similar languages
8- In China, Mandarin and Cantonese, though mutually unintelligible are considered dialects of Chinese because
a. they have a common writing system
b. they are spoken within the same country
c. a & b
9- Dialect diversity develops
a. when people are separated geographically and socially
b. when two or more speech communities are living in the same area
c. when dialects have become mutually unintelligible
10- Dialect differences include
a. all aspects of linguistic structure
b. lexical differences only
c. phonological differences only
11- Sociolinguistics considers linguistic deviation from the standard variety as
a. linguistic change that should be considered corruption of the language
b. linguistic change that should not be considered corruption of the language
c. linguistic change in progress that she be stopped
12- In the former Soviet Union
a. Russian language was banned from use
b. Languages other than Russian were banned from use
c. foreign languages were banned from use
13- The historical discrimination against African Americans has created social isolation in which dialect differences between white and black Americans are
a. levelled
b. intensified
c. banned
14- When groups of people, whose native languages are different, have to communicate, one language is often used by common agreement. This language is called
a. English language
b. Creole
c. Lingua franca
15- A pidgin is a rudimentary language of
a. few lexical items and complex grammatical rules
b. many lexical items and complex grammatical rules
c. few lexical items and less complex rules
16- When a pidgin comes to be adopted by a community as its native tongue, and children learn it as a first language, that language is called
a. a lingua franca
b. a creole
c. a pidginired language
17- Variations in the speech of men an women are found in
a. English only
b. some languages
c. all languages
18- A foreign accent is one that marks someone as
a. someone who speaks a foreign language
b. a non-native speaker
c. a bilingual
19- Code-switching is when a person
a. speaks two different languages
b. switches from one language to the other
c. borrows words from another language
20- Standard Arabic variety is
a. every Arabic-speaking person's native dialect
b. nobody's native dialect
c. the native dialect of the educated people only
21- Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are
a. mutually intelligible languages
b. mutually intelligible dialects
c. mutually unintelligible languages
22- Hindi and Urdu are
a. mutually intelligible languages
b. mutually intelligible dialects
c. mutually unintelligible languages
23- When speakers of one dialect group can no longer understand the speakers of another dialect group, these dialects become
a. mutually unintelligible languages
b. different languages
24- Because mutual intelligibility between some Arabic dialects is very low they dialects can be considered
a. separate languages
b. mutually unintelligible dialects of Arabic
c. mutually intelligible ( to certain extent ) dialects of Arabic
25- American and Australian are considered
a. two different dialects
b. two different languages
c. two mutually intelligible languages
26- Dialect leveling means
a. a linguistic change toward here uniformity
b. a linguistic change toward greater uniformity
c. classifying dialects into different sociolinguistics levels
27- Saudi Arabic dialect variation is mainly caused by
a. geographical factors
b. socioeconomic factors
c. political factors
28- Historically, Italian, French, and Spanish were
a. separate languages
b. dialects of the same language
c. European languages
29- Language purists are
a. de*xxxxxx*ive grammarians
b. pre*xxxxxx*ive grammarians
c. purely .grammarians
30- A prestige dialect of an Arab country is usually
a. the majority dialect
b. an urban dialect
c. the Standard variety
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