Stolen Slides from Kira

Question 1

origins of Pidgins and Creoles (3)

Answer 1

• Monogenesis (portuguese??)
• Polygenesis
• Bioprogram hypothesis

Question 2

Dimensions of Variation (4)

Answer 2

regional (dialects)
social (sociolects?)
contextual (speech styles)
vocational (registers)

Question 3

outcomes of long-term creole-lexifier contact

Answer 3

Diglossia
Creole Continuum
decreolization

Question 4

Local Prestige vs. Global prestige

Answer 4

Local:
- changes from below
- divergent
- led by interior social groups
- curvilinear in SES
Global:
- changes from above
- convergent
- led by higher SES
- sometimes hypercorrection

Question 5

Theories of Language differences (gender)

Answer 5

Feminist
- dominance theory
- patriarchal and Whorfian
Sociocultural
- difference theory
Biological
- blank slate vs. evolutionary psych

Question 6

Neogrammarians

Answer 6

Trad historical ling
- believed all changes were regular and attributed exceptions to analogy or borrowing
- change can only be studied retrospectively

Question 7

Focal vs. Relic Areas

Answer 7

Focal:
- areas from which a dialect/sound change spreads
Relic:
- areas preserving an older dialect

Question 8

Bell (1976)

Question 9

Variants of a Linguistic Variable
(2 traits, 3 influential factors)

Question 10

Matched Guise tests

Question 11

Sir William Jones

Answer 11

Foundational Historical Linguist, found the link between sanskrit and European languages

Question 12

John Searle

Question 13

Debra Schiffrin

Question 14

adjacency pairs

Question 15

Kachru (1992)

Question 16

ideologies (4) of Language planning

Question 17

Stubbs (1983)

Question 18

Speech Act Theory

Answer 18

Austin (1975)
- Constative utterances
- Phatic Utterances
- ethical Utterances
- performative utterances (5 types)

Question 19

Diachronic vs Synchronic

Answer 19

Syn
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