Introduction to Linguistics Quiz I

Which one is considered as linguistic communication?

• Raising of eyebrows

• Posting status in English on your Facebook

• Moving hands in different gestures

• Clenching of fists

Which is not true about the language?

• Many animals have languages much like human languages.

• Language is a linguistic code.

• The speaker and the listener have to share the same linguistic code in order to understand each other.

• We simply don't know how language originated.

What is symptomatic sign?

• Traffic lights

• Icons

• Grimacing face

• Pictographs

Which is correct about the origin of language?

• We simply don't know how language originated.

• Some believed that language is the present from gods.

• The primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds.

• All answers are correct.

What is "onomatopoeia"?

• Language that echoed natural sounds.

• It consists of sounds and meaning.

• The pictures that the primitive people painted on the cave wall.

• Human speech sounds

Which is not true about language?

• Correct spelling preserves a language.

• The same words in the same order don't always mean the same thing.

• All language reflect social and cultural aspects of a society.

• It's easier to learn English if you are in the environment where English is used all the time.

There is no connection between form and meaning. How can we call it.

• Displacement

• Discreteness

• Arbitrariness

• Productivity

The elements of language are composed of, or can be broken into, distinct smaller linguistic units. What is it?

• Displacement

• Duality

• Productivity

• Discreteness

We acquire a language in a culture with other speakers and not from parental genes?

• Arbitrariness

• Duality

• Cultural transmission

• Productivity

A French tourist said to you "Il pleut dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville" and you don't understand. It means that you don't have a __________________.

• linguistic performance

• linguistic competence

• linguistic knowledge

• both linguistic competence and linguistic knowledge are correct.