LING-115 FINAL
If a language has over 10,000 speakers, it's safe and going to continue into
the future.
True
False - correct answer ✔False
96% of the world's languages are spoken by 4% of the world's population.
True
False - correct answer ✔True
Code-switching is one of the causes of language shift.
True
False - correct answer ✔False
The second stage in the 3-generation language shift model is bilingualism.
True
False - correct answer ✔True
,One of the places with the most language extinction is:
Papua New Guinea
North America
Kenya
Europe - correct answer ✔North America
In the town of Oberwart, the oldest generation spoke:
Hungarian with survival skills German
German with survival skills Hungarian
German and Hungarian equally well (bilingual)
Only German - correct answer ✔Hungarian with survival skills German
If a speaker of a minority language gets made fun of at school for not
speaking the majority language well, that speaker will most likely...
Work really hard to learn the majority language, but speak the minority
language often because they're proud of it.
, Work really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the minority
language because they're ashamed of it.
Refuse to speak the majority language because they're ashamed of their
language skills, thus reinforcing their minority language skills.
Speak the minority language and the majority language the same as they
always have. (The bullying won't have any effect.) - correct answer ✔Work
really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the minority
language because they're ashamed of it.
One of the best ways to ensure that a minority language survives in the
presence of a more dominant language group is
to house the speakers in the middle of a big city.
to require that the students take the minority language as a foreign language
in middle school or high school.
to have speakers of the minority language intermarry with the speakers of the
dominant language.
to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting. - correct
answer ✔to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting.
The treatment of a Kikuyu speaker under English colonial rule in Kenya could
be described as
a top-down pressure
If a language has over 10,000 speakers, it's safe and going to continue into
the future.
True
False - correct answer ✔False
96% of the world's languages are spoken by 4% of the world's population.
True
False - correct answer ✔True
Code-switching is one of the causes of language shift.
True
False - correct answer ✔False
The second stage in the 3-generation language shift model is bilingualism.
True
False - correct answer ✔True
,One of the places with the most language extinction is:
Papua New Guinea
North America
Kenya
Europe - correct answer ✔North America
In the town of Oberwart, the oldest generation spoke:
Hungarian with survival skills German
German with survival skills Hungarian
German and Hungarian equally well (bilingual)
Only German - correct answer ✔Hungarian with survival skills German
If a speaker of a minority language gets made fun of at school for not
speaking the majority language well, that speaker will most likely...
Work really hard to learn the majority language, but speak the minority
language often because they're proud of it.
, Work really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the minority
language because they're ashamed of it.
Refuse to speak the majority language because they're ashamed of their
language skills, thus reinforcing their minority language skills.
Speak the minority language and the majority language the same as they
always have. (The bullying won't have any effect.) - correct answer ✔Work
really hard to learn the majority language and stop speaking the minority
language because they're ashamed of it.
One of the best ways to ensure that a minority language survives in the
presence of a more dominant language group is
to house the speakers in the middle of a big city.
to require that the students take the minority language as a foreign language
in middle school or high school.
to have speakers of the minority language intermarry with the speakers of the
dominant language.
to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting. - correct
answer ✔to isolate the speakers of the minority language in a rural setting.
The treatment of a Kikuyu speaker under English colonial rule in Kenya could
be described as
a top-down pressure
