ASSESSMENT TEST for Chapter 8:

LANGUAGE CHANGE: THE SYLLABLES OF TIME

GENERAL RULE: ERASURES from PENS, OR CORRECTION TAPES are HIGHLY UNCONSIDERED!

Instruction:

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read thoroughly and understand the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the of
your best choice. Write the Capital Letter left beside each number.

1. It is the branch of Linguistics with how languages change, what kinds of changes occur and why they
occurred.

A. Physiological and Psychological Linguistics

B. Sociological and Ergonomic Linguistics

C. Historical and Comparative Linguistics

D. Geographical and Phenomenological Linguistics

2. Which of the following options has the correct timeline order of the historical English Language?

A. Old English (449-1100 CE); Middle English (1100-1500 CE); Modern English (1500-present)

B. Old English (500-1100 CE); Middle English (1101-1501 CE); Modern English (1502-present)

C. Old English (300-900 CE); Middle English (901-1409 CE); Modern English (1410-present)

D. Old English (150-500 CE); Middle English (600-1000 CE); Modern English (1000-present)

3. According to him, “No languages as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently
the same.” This relates to the Language Change: The Syllables of Time. Who is this proponent?

A. Benjamin Martin

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Abraham Lincoln
D. William Shakespeare

4. In every language, there is always the evidence of several dialectic variations, may it be in an accent or
lexical form. Example of such is the correspondence of the Southern and non-Southern English of the
United States wherein pronouncing words and releasing its sounds may differ, in the Southern U.S.
monophthong is what can be observed, while in the Northern or some parts of the east and west may
produce Diphthong sound to the same word. What do you call this Dialectic Correspondence?

A. Regular Lexical Correspondence

B. Irregular Sound Correspondence

C. Regular Sound Correspondence

D. Irregular Linguistic Correspondence

5. Who is this famous linguistic personality, concerning on the Regularity of Sound Change, says “That’s
not a regular rule: you just invented it just now.”

A. Joanne Kathleen Rowling

B. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

C. Walt Elias Disney

D. Lewis Carroll

6. In observing of the Regular Sound Correspondence, what do you call on the result of Phonological
Changes that most of the Englishmen from the last centuries ago know about it.

A. Audio Alteration

B. Sound Shift

C. Vocal Dynamics

D. Static Sound

7. These are ancestral languages from which related languages developed. Example of such is the Latin
and Germanic languages are descendants of Indo-European language.
A. Translanguages

B. Monolanguages

C. Heterolanguages

D. Protolanguages