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UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA Peperiksaan Kursus Semasa Cuti Panjang

Sidang Akademik 2007 20AB June 2008

HET 521 - PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE

Duration

:

3 hours

Please check that this examination paper consists of THREE pages of printed material before you begin the examination.

Answer FOUR

questions.

Answer TWO questions from Section

A

and TWO question from Section B.

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1.

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Section A

"Theories of language development differ in the weight that

they

ascribe to various dimensions that characterise language"

(Berko- Gleason,

1998).

Discuss

this

point by comparing and contrasting two

of the five

approaches

to child

language acquisition

with

respect to nativism-empiricism.

[25 marks]

2.

Discuss how

the

Constraint Satisfaction Model accounts

for

sentence

processing. Use

appropriate examples

to

illustrate

and

support your discussion.

[25 marks]

3. .

Research on the acquisition of language contributes

to

a description of

language acquisition process and provides clues about

linguistic

development.

Researchers concerned with these matters draw on two basic

methods.

Discuss the two methods and highlight the approach you consider to be more advantageous.

[25 marks]

Section B

The practice of code-switching is often viewed negatively

by monolingual and bilingual speakers

alike. lt

is often considered as low

prestige form, incorrect, poor language, or a result of

incomplete mastery

of two languages.

Discuss,

with

appropriate examples, the

attitudes of the

community

towards

code-switching

in the

Malaysian context.

[25 marks]

Rapid loss and endangerment

of

languages are occurring on

a

global

scale.

Discuss, with appropriate examples, some of the causes of this and the consequences it might have especially for speakers of minority languages.

[25 marks]

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5.

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6. The topic of language and gender is

usually discussed under these aspects:

[a]

language used by women and men

tb]

language used about women and men

[c] how

language is used by women and men

Discuss each

of the

above and support

your

answer

with

appropriate examples.

[25 marks]

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