chapter 5/6 textbook

Question 1

When will pop of everyone else pass white in USA

Answer 1

Around 2042

Question 2

Residential segregation

Answer 2

The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, and different parts of the urban environment

Question 3

Identities across scales

Answer 3

Individual: we may see ourselves as a son or daughter golfer student

Local: Members of the community, litres of a campus organization, residence of the neighbourhood

Regional: southerners, North gerogians, atlantans

national: American
global: western, wealthy, free

Question 4

Succession

Answer 4

New immigrants to city often moved to low income areas that are being gradually abandoned by older immigrant groups

Question 5

Sense of place

Answer 5

Infusing a place with meaning and feeling

Question 6

Gendered

Answer 6

Places seen as being appropriate for women or for men

Question 7

Queer theory

Answer 7

By appropriating a commonly used word with negative, connotations and turning it in a way that highlights the contextual nature of opposition to the heteronormative and focusses on the political engagement of queers with heteronormative

Question 8

Barrioization

Answer 8

Describe the change that saw the Hispanic population of a neighbourhood gym from 4% in 1960 to over 90% in 2000 (in LA)

Question 9

Mutual intelligibility

Answer 9

2 people can understand each other when speaking

Question 10

Standard language

Answer 10

One that is published widely distributed, and purposely taught

Question 11

Dialects

Answer 11

Differences in vocabulary, syntax, pronounciation, cadence etc

Question 12

Dialect chains

Answer 12

Dialects nearest each other geographically will be the most similar, but dialects become less intelligible as you travel across space

Question 13

Isoglosse

Answer 13

Geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs

Question 14

Language families

Answer 14

Traces families that have the same origin

Question 15

Subfamilies

Answer 15

Breaks down language families

- commonalities are more definite and their origin is more recent

Question 16

Cognate

Answer 16

A word that has same linguistic derivation as another word

Question 17

Proto indo European came from

Answer 17

Proto eurasiatic

Question 18

Language divergence

Answer 18

Occurs when spatial interaction amount speakers of a language breaks down and the language fragments first into dialects and then into discrete tongues

Question 19

Backward reconstruction

Answer 19

Tracking shifting consonants and cognates back in an effort to reconstruct elements of a prior common language

Question 20

Language convergence

Answer 20

Collapsing 2 languages into 1

Question 21

Extinct languages cause

Answer 21

Dead ends on branches on language tree

Question 22

Conquest theory

Answer 22

Provides one explanation for the dominance of indo European tongues in the wake of migration

Question 23

Lingual Franca

Answer 23

Language used amoung speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce

Question 24

Pidgin language

Answer 24

2 or more languages simplified and converged

Question 25

Creole language

Answer 25

When a pidgin language develops a more complex structure and becomes the native language of a group of people

Question 26

Toponyms

Answer 26

Place names