Unit 7.1

Open Ended

Explain the role of Phonology in language understanding.

Multiple Choice

What is the study of how language is used in context to achieve communication goals called?

• Pragmatics

• Morphology

• Semantics

• Syntax

Multiple Choice

Which morpheme means "many or much?"

• vers-

• tract-

• poly-

• tri-

Multiple Choice

Which labeling free (F) and bound (B) morpheme is incorrect ?

• Telephone - Tele (B) + phone (F)

• Infirm - In (B) + firm (F)

• Reformers - Re(B) + form (F) + er (B) + s ( B)

• Ranchers - Rancher (F) + s ( B)

Multiple Choice

Discuss what each part adds to the word: Changes meaning? (e.g. happy → unhappy) Changes word class? (e.g. modern → modernize = adjective to verb) Adds grammatical function? (e.g. walk → walked = tense change) Ex: The -ness suffix changes the grammatical role the word plays in a sentence. Instead of describing someone, it can now be the subject or object in a sentence.

• Changes meaning

• Changes word class

• Adds grammatical function

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

What are some English words derived from Latin as mentioned in the text?

• Street

• Cheese

• Inch

• All of the above

Multiple Select

What is the birthplace of most English words? Choose all that apply

• Ancient Rome

• Ancient Greece

• Ancient Ireland

• The Celts

Multiple Choice

Most new words that entered Old English came from this language

• French

• German

• Spanish

• Latin

Multiple Choice

What is the approximate date of the earliest manuscripts written in England in Old English?

• 600 CE

• 700 CE

• 800 CE

• 500 CE

Multiple Choice

TRUE OR FALSE: Old English sounded and looked like today's English.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the language of the Anglo-Saxon period?

• Ancient English

• Modern English

• Middle English

• Old English

Multiple Choice

What significant changes occurred in the English language after the Norman conquest in 1066 CE?

• The introduction of Latin words

• The fusion of Norman French and Old English

• The decline of written English

• The rise of Old Norse influence

Multiple Choice

What was the tendency that English began to break free from at the start of the Early Modern period?

• Using only one type of ending

• Using no endings at all

• Using inflections in every word

• Using lots of different endings

Multiple Choice

What time period does Early Modern English cover?

• 1500-1600

• 1600-1700

• 1700-1800

• 1500-1800

Multiple Choice

What were the main factors that contributed to the spread of Late Modern English?

• Limited Early Spread

• Colonial Expansion

• Lexical Borrowing

• Influence on British English

Multiple Choice

The main differences between Early Modern English and Late Modern English are vocabulary and ---.

• books
• paper
• pronunciation
• countries

Multiple Choice

What are the archaic forms of the second person singular and plural?

• thou and thee

• ye and you

• thou and ye

• you and yours

Multiple Choice

(archaic) between

• twixt

• intellect

• oblige

• reap

• spurn