Lang rights midterm

Question 1

Accent

Answer 1

How the words sound

Question 2

Dialect

Answer 2

Sentence Structure

Question 3

Variety

Answer 3

Catch all

Question 4

Language + Problems

Answer 4

Mutually understandable speech, Dialects that can’t understand different areas OR Different languages that can understand each other

Question 5

Geographic and social continuums

Answer 5

The closer to (The border/ middle class) you get, the more the other languages can understand each other. Not a hard cutoff.

Question 6

Saphir whorf main idea

Answer 6

Something about one’s language affects how you see the world

Question 7

Issues with testing Saphir Wharf

Answer 7

Difficult to test/ prove. We did d vs t but that’s about it. For ex snow

Question 8

How Saphir Wharf can be used

Answer 8

Racism ex: Chinese people don’t care about future

Question 9

Morpheme

Answer 9

Smallest building block of language that has meaning

Question 10

Sound inventory

Answer 10

The amount of sounds one can make after learning a language

Question 11

Word Order

Answer 11

SVO vs OVS the way the words are structured

Question 12

Rebus Principle

Answer 12

A language with a lot of homophones. Use a concrete object to represent abstract idea (ex: Eye=I, as in self)

Question 13

Acrophonic Principle

Answer 13

Use the first sound of concrete objects. (Ex: Hand=H)

Question 14

Alphabet

Answer 14

Vowels + Constants are equal

Question 15

Abjad

Answer 15

Constants only

Question 16

Abugida

Answer 16

Add marker to constantan to indicate vowel (Ex: A mark above the K= Ka)

Question 17

Pictographic systems

Answer 17

Each phrase has a symbol (Ex: Chinese) and radicals

Question 18

Syllabary

Answer 18

All syllables have their own sound (Ex: —=KO, |=Plat

Question 19

Albabetic systems

Answer 19

Each sound has a symbol

Question 20

Difference between written and spoken language

Answer 20

Written=Harder to know tone, needs more instruction

Spoken=Learn by surroundings, not as ambiguous

Question 21

Religion correlation

Answer 21

Religious history often dictates what language to use. polish vs russian. Russia’s Church-Cyrillic vs Catholic Polish Church-latin

Question 22

Naming Conventions

Answer 22

Ancestors, Birth order, Saint, What you want them to be like

Question 23

Last Name Naming Conventions

Answer 23

Location, Occupancy, Ancestry, Patronymic-After father’s first name

Question 24

Assumptions of names

Answer 24

How old they are, gender, religion, race, language

Question 25

Ways Naming can be constrained

Answer 25

If name is offensive, sweden send names