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ASL Linguistics Quiz #25
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241. When a bilingual person is using one language and then intentionally changes to another language.
a. Interference
b. Code switching
c. Lexical borrowing
d. Maintained bilingualism

242. Language contact between adult users of mutually unintelligible languages who are communicating for specific purposes and are not trying to learn each other's language often results in:
a. A pidgin
b. A creole
c. Foreigner Talk
d. Code-Switching

243. Simplification of a language to communicate with someone who doesn't know the language well:
a. Pidgin
b. Creole
c. Foreigner Talk
d. Code-Switching

244. When a bilingual person unconsciously uses parts of one language in another language:
a. Lexical borrowing
b. Interference
c. Creole
d. Code-Switching

245. When children learn pidgin as their native language and change it and make it more complex:
a. Lexical borrowing
b. Interference
c. Creole
d. Code-Switching

246. Lexical borrowing comes under the category of:
a. Unique phenomena
b. Following spoken language criteria literally
c. An Interlocution
d. Orthography

247. A relationship between the phonology of a sign language and the orthography of a spoken language:
a. Borrowing
b. Fingerspelling
c. Contact signing
d. Creole

248. English word order, the use of prepositions, constructions with that, English expressions, mouthing of English words as well as ASL nonmanual signals, body and eye gaze shifting, and ASL use of space are all part of:
a. Contact signing
b. Signed English
c. Pidgin
d. The Rochester Method

249. This type of signing started in the 1940's at Gallaudet University football games when it was performed for the song of the Gallaudet mascot:
a. Percussion Signing
b. Classifier Stories
c. Numerical stories
d. A-Z Stories

250. What kinds of rhyme does ASL Poetry use?
a. Handshape rhyme
b. End-rhyme
c. Movement path rhyme and handshape rhyme
d. End-rhyme, handshape, movement path, location, NMS, and handedness rhyme.

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