ENG512 Midterm MCQs 2024 by Miss Mehwish

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 Variance in language behavior in multilingual settings is likely to be

❌ exceedingly ✅ negligibly ❌ barely

 Language is strongly related to

✅ social networks ❌ variance ❌ correlation ❌ solidarity

•  Bilinguality has been studied more than bilingualism. ❌ False ✅ True
•  A person's native speech is regarded as a/an______ part of his family background. ✅ integral ❌ incidental ❌ peripheral ❌ dispensable

 The study of domain analysis facilitates our understanding of

✅ language variation

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❌ acculturization ❌ bilingualism

 In many studies of multilingual behavior, the family domain has proved to be a very

❌ secondary ❌ optional ✅ crucial

 The appropriate definition of domains requires

❌ micro social dynamics ❌ language shift ✅ specific multilingual context ❌ language maintenance

•  The form of language that people speak in a specific part of country is known as _. ❌ acculturization ✅ dialect

❌ bilingualism

 Which of the following can be a constraining feature in habitual language choice?

❌ Groups ❌ Society ✅ Individual ❌ Groups

 Another way to understand bilingualism is to understand the different

❌ sections ❌ ages ✅ domains

Which of the following is not a source of variance?

Role variance Media variance ✔️ Contextual variance Domain variance

 The new code for communication is

Pidginization ✔️ Rationalism Socialization Behaviourism

•  When two or more languages exist in a society in a complimentary state and there is no competition between these languages then this is known as __ Additive bilingualism Exogenous bilingualism Diglossic bilingualism ✔️ Territorial bilingualism

 When there is communicative need between two communities select the correct option

Linguistic forms Pidgin ✔️ Creole Native language

•  Roland Robertson defined as "the simultaneity, the co-presence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies." Select the correct option Globalization Diglossia Glocalization ✔️ Colonization

 Cognates are the words that have

Same spellings