A TYPE of language which functions as a national language in several countries, each with their own national variety and own linguistic norms and features (eg. English, Arabic, Chinese).
What is a PLURICENTRIC language?
100
A foolish person.
What is a galah or drongo?
100
The Australian accent rated most negatively.
What is the Broad Australian accent?
100
One of the features of American English that we have taken on, including stress patterns and voicing (flapping) of /t/ between vowels.
What is pronunciation?
100
The objects of the majority of Indigenous borrowings.
What are cultural terms, flora, fauna & place names? (note: all nouns)?
200
A language VARIETY that has grammar and vocabulary marked by a geographical or social origin (ie. language defined by user)
What is a DIALECT?
200
A girl/female.
What is a sheila?
200
(Depending on your state/region) a pot, middy, schooner or ten.
What is a medium size glass of beer?
200
The spellings causing the most controversy due to Americanization.
What are Z/S, ER/RE & O/OU
200
A complex expression that is made up of single semantic unites where the meaning of the whole cannot be deduced from the individual parts.
What is an idiom/iodomatic expression?
300
An ACCENT that is considered "homeless" and is something similar to the Queen's accent.
What is Received Pronunciation?
300
People from Queensland.
Who are Banana Benders?
300
A make-shift language that begins when speakers of different languages mix for a period of time and need to communicate.
What is pidgin?
300
The year Victoria began to acknowledge American spellings in The Age newspaper (and was later pressured to return to British spellings).
What is 1969?
300
A common last minute addition to a declarative clause, making it a question.
What is interrogative tag?
400
The formal linguistic term for "street cred" where speakers are accepted and respected for their use of non-standard language features.
What is COVERT prestige?
400
A very slim chance.
What is Buckley's chance?
400
The variety of Aboriginal English that is recognised across all varieties.
What is Kriol?
400
The subsystem causing the most controversy when it comes to Americanization.
What is lexicon?
400
A very common approach to creating nicknames.
What are diminutives?
500
A variety of everyday language specific to a social group or region.
What is vernacular?
500
Rhyming slang meaning trouble
What is BARNEY (Barney Rubble)?
500
A variety that identifies speakers by their ethnicity and usually their L1 (first language)
What is an ethnolect?
500
The number of languages Australian English has borrowed from.
What is 160?
500
A striking prosodic feature of the AusE commonly occuring at the end of declarative sentences.
What is the High Rising Tune/Terminal? (Australian Questioning Intonation, Uptalk)