Creole Exam Language History 2

Question 1

Which colonial power's language most heavily influenced Louisiana Creole?

Accepted Answer

French

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Spanish

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Portuguese

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Dutch

Question 2

What term describes the process by which a pidgin language becomes the native tongue of a community?

Accepted Answer

Creolization

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Diglossia

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Code-switching

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Lexification

Question 3

Haitian Creole's development was primarily driven by contact between French colonizers and enslaved Africans from which region?

Accepted Answer

West and Central Africa

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East Africa

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North Africa

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South Africa

Question 4

Which theory argues that creole languages share universal grammatical features because of innate human language capacity?

Accepted Answer

Language bioprogram hypothesis

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Substratum theory

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Superstrate theory

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Polygenesis theory

Question 5

What is the superstrate language in a creole?

Accepted Answer

The socially dominant language that provides most vocabulary

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The language with the fewest speakers

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The oldest language in the region

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The language spoken by the enslaved population

Question 6

Gullah, a creole spoken along the coastal US South, developed from contact between English speakers and enslaved Africans speaking languages from which language family?

Accepted Answer

Niger-Congo

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Afro-Asiatic

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Nilo-Saharan

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Khoisan

Question 7

Which historical event dramatically accelerated the spread and development of Caribbean creole languages in the 17th–18th centuries?

Accepted Answer

The transatlantic slave trade

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The Protestant Reformation

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The Napoleonic Wars

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The Spanish Inquisition