Cambridge International AS & A Level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE 9093/33
Paper 3 Language Analysis May/June 2022
2 hours 15 minutes
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INFORMATION
● The total mark for this paper is 50.
● The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
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Section A: Language change
Question 1
Read Texts A, B and C.
Analyse how Text A exemplifies the various ways in which the English language has changed
over time. In your answer, you should refer to specific details from Texts A, B and C, as well as to
ideas and examples from your wider study of language change. [25]
Text A
An extract from a travel memoir consisting of letters written by the French writer Marie-Catherine
d’Aulnoy in 1737. Here she describes the way of life and accommodation that she has seen during
her travels to Madrid in Spain.
They change their Furniture ʃeveral times a Year : Their
Winter Beds are of Velvet, trimm’d with thick Galoons1 of Gold ;
but they are ʃo low, and the Valens2 ʃo deep, that one is as if they
were bury’d in them ; and when one is in Bed, the Border of the
Valens lying almoʃt upon the Counterpane3, one can hardly be 5
ʃeen. In Summer they have neither Curtains nor any thing elʃe
about the Bed. This looks very ill. Sometimes they hang coloured
Gauze, to keep off the Gnats.
In Winter they have their Apartments very high, ʃometimes
in the fourth Story according as the Cold increaʃes, to keep them 10
from it. At preʃent they uʃe their Summer Lodgings, which are
low, and very commodious4. All their Houʃes have a great many
Rooms on a Floor ; you go through a dozen or fifteen Parlours
or Chambers one after another. Thoʃe which are the worʃt lodged
have ʃix or ʃeven. The Rooms are generally longer than they are 15
broad. The floors and Cielings are neither painted nor gilt ; they
are made of Plaiʃter quite plain, but ʃo white, that they dazzle one’s
Eyes ; for every Year they are ʃcrap’d and whited as the Walls, which
look like Marble, they are ʃo well poliʃh’d. The Court to their
Summer Apartments is made of certain Matter, which, after it has 20
had ten Pails of Water thrown upon it, yet is dry in half an Hour,
and leaves a pleaʃant Coolneʃs ; ʃo that in the Morning they water
all, and a little while after they ʃpread Mats or Carpets made of very
fine Ruʃhes, which cover all the Pavement. The whole Apartments
are hung with the ʃame ʃmall Mat about the depth of an Ell5, to 25
hinder the Coldneʃs of the Walls from hurting thoʃe which lean
againʃt them. On the top of theʃe Mats there are hung Pictures
and Looking Glaʃʃes. The Cuʃhions, which are of Gold and Silver
Brocade, are placed upon the Carpet ; and the Tables and Cabinets
are very fine ; and at little Diʃtances there are ʃet Silver Caʃes or 30
Boxes, filled with Orange and Jeʃʃamin-Trees6. In their Windows
they ʃet things made of Straw, to keep the Sun out ; and in the
Evenings they walk in their Gardens.
1 galoon: a decorative woven trim (modern spelling is galloon)
2 valens: material which hangs down over the side of a mattress or bed (modern spelling is valance)
3 counterpane: a decorative cover for a bed
4 commodious: large and comfortable
5 ell : a historical unit of measurement
6 Jeʃʃamin: archaic spelling for the flowering plant ‘jasmine’
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Text B
Eight of the top collocates of ‘ill’ from the Early English Books Corpus (1470s–1690s) and from the
British National Corpus (1980s–1993)
‘ill’ ‘ill’
(1470s–1690s) (1980s–1993)
fortune health
affected seriously
successe taken
doing became
luck patients
consequences ease
usage fell
humours feel
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n-gram graph for plaster, plaister, ceiling and cieling (1720–2000)
0.00160%
0.00140%
ceiling
0.00120%
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0.00080%
0.00060%
0.00040% plaster
0.00020%
plaister
0.00000% cieling
1720 1740 1760 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000
Text C
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Section B: Child language acquisition
Question 2
Read the following text, which is a transcription of a conversation between Mia (age 4 years) and
her uncle. They are discussing the baby Mia’s mother is expecting.
Analyse ways in which Mia and her uncle are using language in this conversation. In your answer,
you should refer to specific details from the transcription, as well as to ideas and examples from
your wider study of child language acquisition. [25]
Uncle: what is it going to be↗ (.) a boy or a girl
Mia: i dont (1) we dont know yet↘
Uncle: what do you want it to be
Mia: girl
Uncle: why 5
Mia: because its pretty
Uncle: girls are pretty↗
Mia: yes
Uncle: but boys are handsome
Mia: boys are not pretty 10
Uncle: boys arent pretty↗ (.) your brothers handsome↗ (2) so you want a girl↘ (.)
thats what you want (.) a sister↗ what do you want to name her↘
Mia: /ʒɒliː/
Uncle: dolly↗
Mia: /ʒɒliː/ 15
Uncle: /ʒəʊliː/↗
Mia: jolly
Uncle: jolly↘ (1) thats a pretty good name
Mia: its a girl name
Uncle: yeah 20
Mia: i love that name
Uncle: so whats your favourite animal in like the whole wide world↘
Mia: crocodiles
Uncle: why
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Mia: because peter pan1 (.) peter pan has a cr crocodile in it ↗ (.) in it 25
Uncle: no way
Mia: it does↘ (4) my favourite /æmɪnəlz/ are crocodiles and snakes↘
Uncle: /uːw/ (.) i dont like snakes
Mia: i dont like them either but /dəʊz/ are my
// 30
Uncle: wait wait wait (1) youve just said your favourite
animals a snake and then you said i dont like them either (2) do you like snakes↗
Mia: i like snakes (.) only if theyre nice snakes
Uncle: what kind of snakes are nice
Mia: well i dont know kind of snakes (.) i dont know if theyre nice but 35
Uncle: big snakes or little snakes↗
Mia: little snakes or or big snakes (1) i dont know which snakes (.) i dont know
which snakes are nice
Uncle: have you ever picked up a snake before
Mia: no 40
Uncle: cos youre scared of them
Mia: no↘
Uncle: youre not scared of them
Mia: i like them
Uncle: oh thats right you like them 45
Mia: im not scared of ANYTHING
1peter pan: a fictional story
TRANSCRIPTION KEY
(1) = pause in seconds
(.) = micropause
underlined = stressed sound/syllable(s)
// = speech overlap
[italics] = paralinguistic features
<italics> = contextual information
UPPER CASE = words spoken with increased volume
˚word˚ = words spoken with decreased volume
↗ = upward intonation
↘ = downward intonation
/wɪv/ = phonemic representation of speech sounds
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REFERENCE TABLE OF International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) PHONEMIC SYMBOLS
(RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION)
1 Consonants of English 2 Pure vowels of English
/f/ fat, rough / iː / beat, keep
/v/ very, village, love /ɪ/ bit, tip, busy
/ɵ/ theatre, thank, athlete /e/ bet, many
/ð/ this, them, with, either /æ/ bat
/s/ sing, thinks, losses /ʌ/ cup, son, blood
/z/ zoo, beds, easy / aː / car, heart, calm, aunt
/ʃ/ sugar, bush /ɒ/ pot, want
/ʒ/ pleasure, beige / ɔː / port, saw, talk
/h/ high, hit, behind /ə/ about, sudden
/p/ pit, top / ɜː / word, bird
/t/ tip, pot, steep /ʊ/ book, wood, put
/k/ keep, tick, scare / uː / food, soup, rude
/b/ bad, rub
/d/ bad, dim 3 Diphthongs of English
/g/ gun, big / eɪ / late, day, great
/ tʃ / church, lunch / aɪ / time, high, die
/ dʒ / judge, gin, jury / ɔɪ / boy, noise
/m/ mad, jam, small / aʊ / cow, house, town
/n/ man, no, snow / əʊ / boat, home, know
/ŋ/ singer, long / ɪə / ear, here
/l/ loud, kill, play / eə / air, care, chair
/j/ you, beyond / ʊə / cure, jury
/w/ one, when, sweet
/r/ rim, bread
/ʔ/ uh-oh
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