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Review Quiz (Part VI: Dialects & Social Structure)

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1. As a general rule of thumb, a dialect is different from a language in that
a language is written but a dialect is not 
by definition two languages are not mutually intelligible, whereas different dialects may be 
a dialect contains two or more languages, whereas a language cannot contain two or more dialects 
the term “dialect” technically applies only to language forms found in Asia, so that one speaks of Chinese dialects but not of German or Maya ones 
No Answer
2. Although dialect differences readily develop when geography interferes with everyday communication within a language community, not all dialects are geographically based; “social dialects” reflect
special language forms taught in schools 
the influence of bilingual individuals 
other barriers to communication, such as social class 
speech differences derived from immigration patterns 
lower-class people trying to imitate the speech of higher-class people 
No Answer
3. The essay points out that speaking one language rather than another can often be a matter of signaling one’s character or ethnicity rather than a matter of communication convenience. In this context, we may safely assume that Zamenhof’s father, a public school teacher, used Russian at home
to show his loyalty to the Czar 
to conceal the fact that he was Jewish 
because he considered Yiddish and Polish both to be “expressively constipated” 
because he considered Hebrew too holy for daily use 
because Polish lacked a writing system of its own 
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4. Closely related to the idea of dialect is the idea of register, which refers to
the licensing of one form of speech as the only official form to used in school 
language differences that are situation-dependent 
linguists’ attempts to align dialects of one language with dialects of another, revealing commonalities across languages in dialect genesis and differentiation and in mechanisms of dialect boundary maintenance 
forms of language that are learned from exposure to texts rather to speech 
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5. “Respect language,” found especially in Javanese, Japanese, and Korean, illustrates the extreme development of
consonant clusters 
the integration of body motion and hand gestures into spoken language 
geographical dialects 
social dialects 
registers 
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6. When two different languages have a “diglossic” relationship to each other in a bilingual community, the designation of one as H and the other as L refers to
their specialization to speech situations of higher and lower formality 
the differential prestige of their monolingual speakers 
their comparative age in the shared linguistic community 
the role of the school system in promoting or suppressing indigenous language use. 
No Answer

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