Words from the following list that contain velar consonants: exit, sing, cat, laugh, brush, guess
What is EXIT, SING, CAT, and GUESS
100
The use of a prestige feature in a linguistic environment where the feature is never used by native users of the prestige feature is known as this.
What is STRUCTURAL HYPERCORRECTION
100
Another name for prescriptivists is this.
What is POP GRAMMARIANS
100
This refers to the difficult of collecting data because the scientist's presence alters the subjects behavior.
What is OBSERVER'S PARADOX
100
The following sentence contains this grammatical characteristic of BEV:
He be trippin'.
What is INVARIANT BE
200
The geographic boundary of some linguistic feature is called this.
What is an ISOGLOSS
200
The third person singular suffix on the present tense verb is an example of this kind of variable.
What is GRAMMATICAL
200
A prescriptivist would change ______ to ________ in the following sentence:
Among the two of us, we just could not decide.
What is AMONG to BETWEEN
200
This is a danger when the person formulating the hypothesis is also the one responsible for gathering the data.
What is EXPERIMENTER BIAS
200
The following sentence contains this grammatical characteristic of BEV:
I told you already, that girl crazy.
What is ZERO COPULA
300
Sounds produced with the vocal chords vibrating are called _______ sounds.
What is VOICED
300
This is when the second highest social class uses more of the prestige variant than the highest social class in the most formal situation.
What is STATISTICAL HYPERCORRECTION
300
The following sentence contains this usage, which prescriptivists would consider ungrammatical:
Groceries are expensive anymore.
What is POSITIVE ANYMORE
300
This is the experiment in which listeners were given recordings of the same speaker using two different languages or dialects and asked to judge the speaker in each recording on traits such as friendliness and intelligence.
What is MATCHED GUISE TECHNIQUE
300
The following sentence contains this grammatical characteristic of BEV:
Don't anybody give speeches like Obama's!
What is NEGATIVE AUXILIARY PREPOSING
400
Germanic, Latin, Slavic, and Baltic languages all have this parent language in common.
What is PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
400
This is when use of a certain grammatical or phonological variable changes as a function of the formality of the situation in which the speaker is using the variable.
What is STYLE SHIFTING
400
The following is an example of this prescriptive concept:
Stepping off the subway, the sun poured onto the platform.
What is a DANGLING PARTICIPLE
400
This person's experiment took place in department stores in New York City and compared the use of non-prevocalic [r] by workers at the various department stores to see if use of the variable related to social class.
What is LABOV
400
The following sentence contains an example of this grammatical characteristic in BEV:
I asked will he come with us, but he said no.
What is INVERTED WORD ORDER IN INDIRECT QUESTIONS
500
Nasals differ from voiced stops produced at the same point of articulation in that _____ is ______ (lowered/raised) in the production of nasals but not in the production of voiced stops.