FUTA English Language 2013/2014 Past Questions

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Creoles, according to the most general account. arise when a pidgin language becomes the native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is when a man and woman who speak different languages marry, both know sporting, and neither learns the other's language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occured during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate Africanslaves with the same native language in order to frestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were availableas common languages and they became tehbais for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongu, it must support all the interactiveneeds of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expandsits grammatical machinery, as well as stablilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creaole is in touch with its lexifier language, it may decreolize and develop varieties increasingly lik ethe lexifier language. if the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old creole may be seen simply as substandard diaelects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has been proposed as the origin for the US vernacular Black English

Read the passage below, and answer the questions that follow:
Creoles, according to the most general account. arise when a pidgin language becomes the native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is when a man and woman who speak different languages marry, both know sporting, and neither learns the other's language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occured during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate Africanslaves with the same native language in order to frestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were availableas common languages and they became tehbais for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongu, it must support all the interactiveneeds of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expandsits grammatical machinery, as well as stablilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creaole is in touch with its lexifier language, it may decreolize and develop varieties increasingly lik ethe lexifier language. if the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old creole may be seen simply as substandard diaelects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has been proposed as the origin for the US vernacular Black English

Read the passage below, and answer the questions that follow:
Creoles, according to the most general account. arise when a pidgin language becomes the native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is when a man and woman who speak different languages marry, both know sporting, and neither learns the other's language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occured during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate Africanslaves with the same native language in order to frestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were availableas common languages and they became tehbais for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongu, it must support all the interactiveneeds of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expandsits grammatical machinery, as well as stablilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creaole is in touch with its lexifier language, it may decreolize and develop varieties increasingly lik ethe lexifier language. if the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old creole may be seen simply as substandard diaelects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has been proposed as the origin for the US vernacular Black English

Read the passage below, and answer the questions that follow:
Creoles, according to the most general account. arise when a pidgin language becomes the native language of a new generation of children. One way this can come about is when a man and woman who speak different languages marry, both know sporting, and neither learns the other's language. The pidgin then becomes the shared home language and becomes the mother tongue of the children. A setting in which this has happened occured during the bleakest days of slavery in the Western hemisphere, when efforts were made to separate Africanslaves with the same native language in order to frestall insurrections. Only pidgin languages were availableas common languages and they became tehbais for the mother tongue of new generations.
Once a pidgin language becomes a mother tongu, it must support all the interactiveneeds of its speakers, since they have no other language to fall back on. A creole becomes simpler (in the sense of more regular) and expandsits grammatical machinery, as well as stablilizing and expanding its lexicon. If a creaole is in touch with its lexifier language, it may decreolize and develop varieties increasingly lik ethe lexifier language. if the less decreolized varieties fall out of use, the decreolized remnants of the old creole may be seen simply as substandard diaelects of the lexifier language. As we will see, this has been proposed as the origin for the US vernacular Black English

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