The questions in this quiz are from The Study of Language (THIRD EDITION) book written by GEORGE YULE.
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#1. a situation where there is a ‘high’ or special variety of a language used in formal situations, and a ‘low’ variety used locally and informally
#2. a term used to describe a native speaker of two languages or a country with two official languages
#3. ‘non-mobile, older, rural, male speakers’ selected as informants in dialect surveys
#4. What is the process whereby a creole is used with fewer distinct creole features as it becomes more like a standard variety?
#5. the variety of a language treated as the official language and used in public broadcasting, publishing and education
#6. aspects of the grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of a variety of a language
#7. having, or being able to use, only one language
#8. choosing and developing an official language or languages for use in government and education
#9. a line on a map separating two areas in which a particular linguistic feature is significantly different, used in the study of dialect
#10. What is the study of dialects?
#11. the gradual merging of one regional variety of a language into another
#12. a line representing a set of isoglosses, used to separate one dialect area from another
#13. the process of development from a pidgin to a creole
#14. What is a variety of a language that developed from a pidgin and is used as a first language by a population of native speakers?
#15. the study of language variation based on where different varieties of the language are used
#16. the state of having two languages
#17. a variety of a language that developed for a practical purpose such as trade, but which has no native speakers
#18. the main source (language) of words in a pidgin
#19. the range of varieties that evolves in communities where a creole is spoken, usually as a result of decreolization
#20. being capable of speaking two dialects
#21. aspects of pronunciation that identify where a speaker is from
