Obtaining Linguistic Data IELTS Reading Answers

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Updated On Mar 07, 2022

Obtaining Linguistic Data IELTS Reading Answers

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Question number	Answer	Keywords	Location of keywords
1	D	People talk abnormally when they know they are being recorded, and sound quality can be poor.	Paragraph D; Line 4
2	E	Where possible, therefore, the recording has to be supplemented by the observer’s written comments on the non-verbal behaviour of the participants,	Paragraph E; Line 2
3	C	Age, sex, social background and other aspects of identity are important, as these factors are known to influence the kind of language used.	Paragraph C; Line 2
4	D	Alternatively, attempts can be made to make the speaker forget about the recording, such as keeping the tape recorder out of sight, or using radio microphones.	Paragraph D; Line 7
5	F	Linguists also make great use of structured sessions, in which they systematically ask their informants for utterances that describe certain actions, objects or behaviours.	Paragraph F; First line
6	(the) linguist (acts)/ (the) linguists (act)	Often, when studying their mother tongue, linguists act as their own informants,	Paragraph B; Line 2
7	foreign languages	The latter procedure is unavoidable when working on foreign languages, or child speech.	Paragraph B; Last line
8	quality/ the quality/ the poor quality	People talk abnormally when they know they are being recorded, and sound quality can be poor.	Paragraph D; Line 4
9	non-verbal behaviour	Where possible, therefore, the recording has to be supplemented by the observer’s written comments on the non-verbal behaviour of the participants,	Paragraph E; Line 2
10	camera/ video camera/ recording/ video recording	Video recordings avoid these problems to a large extent, but even they have limitations (the camera cannot be everywhere),	Paragraph E; Line 3
11	frequency of usage/ usage frequency	A corpus enables the linguist to make unbiased statements about frequency of usage	Paragraph G; Line 2
12	particular linguistic feature	Some corpora attempt to cover the language as a whole, taking extracts from many kinds of text; others are extremely selective, providing a collection of material that deals only with a particular linguistic feature	Paragraph G; Line 4
13	size	The size of the corpus depends on practical factors, such as the time available to collect, process and store the data	Paragraph G; Line 5
14	intuitions	An important principle is that all corpora, whatever their size, are inevitably limited in their coverage, and always need to be supplemented by data derived from the intuitions of native speakers of the language, through either introspection or experimentation.	Paragraph G; Line 7

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Janice Thompson

Soon after graduating with a Master’s in Literature from Southern Arkansas University, she joined an institute as an English language trainer. She has had innumerous student interactions and has produced a couple of research papers on English language teaching. She soon found that non-native speakers struggled to meet the English language requirements set by foreign universities. It was when she decided to jump ship into IELTS training. From then on, she has been mentoring IELTS aspirants. She joined IELTSMaterial about a year ago, and her contributions have been exceptional. Her essay ideas and vocabulary have taken many students to a band 9.