17.1Chapter 13: Sociolinguistic Terms and Examples
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For each example below, choose the term that it illustrates.
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1. Appalachian English preserves a-prefixing, as in When that trooper passed me, he was just a-flyin'. An old form that is preserved in some areas and not in others is known as ________.
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2. For many speakers of American English, the distinction between the vowels of cot , spelled c, o, t, and caught , spelled c, a, u, g, h, t, and of Don , spelled capital D, o, n, and dawn , spelled d, a, w, n, has been lost, and each pair of words sounds the same. This loss of distinction between the Open back unrounded vowel and the Open mid back unrounded vowel is due to ________.
2. For many speakers of American English, the distinction between the vowels of cot, spelled c, o, t, and caught, spelled c, a, u, g, h, t, and of Don, spelled capital D, o, n, and dawn, spelled d, a, w, n, has been lost, and each pair of words sounds the same. This loss of distinction between [ɑ] and [ɔ] is due to ________.
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3. If you hear someone say, "Me and him we seen this bird," the use of me and him as the subject and of seen instead of saw signals that the person is not well-educated. These are known as ________.
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4. If a French businessman and a German businessman meet to negotiate a deal between their two companies, they may well conduct their negotiations in English. English here is an example of ________.
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5. In Oberwart, a bilingual village on the border between Austria and Hungary, when a grandfather discovered that his grandchildren had knocked over his carefully stacked woodpile, he first told them in Hungarian to restack the wood. When they did not respond quickly enough, he repeated his directive in German. This is an example of ________.
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6. In Labov’s department store survey, he asked employees questions that elicited the answer "fourth floor" and noted whether they pronounced the r. In this study, the post-vocalic r was ________.
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7. Juba Arabic is spoken in southern Sudan for the purposes of trade and basic communication. It is no one’s native language and uses words from local colloquial Arabic as well as other languages of Sudan. Its small vocabulary with simple grammar and a simple sound system makes it easily learned. This is an example of ________.
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8. In Guyanese creole, depending on the person speaking and the situation, the sentence I gave him might be expressed as a geev him, a did giv hii, mi di gi hii, or mi bin gii ii. These choices, from closest to standard English to furthest from standard English, illustrate ________.
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9. If someone calls a carbonated soft drink a coke, no matter the flavor or brand, addresses a group of people as y’all, and says sentences such as, You might could do that and I'm fixin' to go to church, we know that person is from the South. The unique choices of vocabulary and grammar illustrate ________.
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10. A young person from Akron, Ohio (near Cleveland), pronounces her city as ikron instead of Aekron, pronounces box as box instead of bax, and says dol for dull instead of dal. She is participating in ________.
10. A young person from Akron, Ohio (near Cleveland), pronounces her city as [ɪə]kron instead of [æ]kron, pronounces box as [baks] instead of [bɑks], and says [dɔl] for dull instead of [dʌl]. She is participating in ________.