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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Pronunciation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language is most commonly chosen by international businesses?
(a) English
(b) Japanese
(c) French
(d) Italian

2. What is often cited as an equalizing force in English?
(a) Tenses
(b) The lack of grammatical gender
(c) Sentence structure
(d) Latin derivatives

3. Many English speakers promote the particular variety of English that they speak while ____________________ the dialects of speakers from other regions.
(a) mimicking
(b) ridiculing
(c) studying
(d) trying

4. What happens when a group of native speakers dies out?
(a) The language dies
(b) The language lives on in verbal communications
(c) A new language is formed
(d) The language lives on in documents

5. What does Chomsky think are innate in children?
(a) Several language barriers
(b) "Ground rules" that help them learn language
(c) Rhyming capabilities
(d) The tendencies to be dyslexic

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose work can inconsistent spelling be found due to the event of #67?

2. What profession encourages expressions that make numbers and letters clearer when communicating by radio?

3. The author finds that many languages _________________________.

4. Chapter 6 addresses the changing pronunciation of which language over time?

5. What happens when a particular phonology is applied to adopted words?

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