1) What is accent? a) The way that words are spelt. b) The way that words are pronounced by a person or group. c) The way that words relate to a particular job. 2) What is an address term? a) What people call one another, eg 'mate' 'Sir'. b) The number of your house. c) Language used in a Post Office. 3) What is meant by code-switching? a) Talking differently in different situations. b) The language used by spies. c) Talking in the same way all the time. 4) What do you understand by covert prestige? a) Gaining status by using Received Pronounciation in order to seem more important. b) Speaking like the Queen. c) Gaining status by using non-standard English to seem more down-to-earth. 5) What is dialect? a) A form of Received Pronunciation. b) A variety of speech with specific vocabulary and grammar. c) A different language. 6) What is dialect-levelling? a) What happens when different dialects merge and become similar. b) A set of rules for proper speech. c) The level of voulume at which you speak. 7) What is elision? a) Missing words out. b) When words are made longer. c) When certain sounds are slurred together eg. 'dunno'. 8) What is ellipsis? a) Whe words are spelt incorrectly. b) When the moon goes in front of the sun. c) When words are missed out. 9) Why might speakers use a filler? a) To make a more interesting sandwich. b) To prevent them from losing their turn in the conversation. c) To fill in gaps while they're thinking what to say next. 10) What is feedback? a) The things that people do to show they're listening. b) Constructive advice. c) A high-pitched noise when a guitar is too close to an amplifier. 11) What is idiolect? a) An intellectual idiot. b) An individual speaker's unique way of speaking. c) A posh way of speaking. 12) When might you use phatic talk? a) When making 'small talk'. b) When giving instructions. c) When giving a lecture. 13) What is an example of initialism? a) Something rather funny has happened. b) OMG, you need to get here asap! (lol) c) My goodness, that's amusing. 14) In a transcript, what symbol denotes a micropause? a) (.) b) (3) c) (pause) 15) What is jargon? a) Rude words. b) Words used to get attention. c) Specialist words that relate to a particular job or activity. 16) What are two examples of non-fluency features? a) False starts. b) Speaking without pausing. c) Repetition. 17) What is an example of a paralinguistic feature? a) The vocabulary of the speaker. b) The tone in which something is said. c) The language used. 18) What is a transcript? a) A script translated into a foreign language. b) Spoken language that has been written down in order to be studied. c) A script. 19) What do you understand by turn-taking? a) The behaviour of speakers in a conversation when they let each other speak. b) A monologue. c) People shouting all at once. 20) What does sociolect mean? a) Another way of saying dialect. b) Everyone in society speaking the same way. c) The dialect of a particular group of speakers.

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