lINGUISTIC TEST 1

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• . Linguistics is the science of language, studying speech sounds, the sounds that are produced by using human speech organs

• . Linguistics studies speech sounds.

• . Linguistics is the science of language, studying speech

  produced by human .

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• Words in languages are finite, but sentences are not

• Words in languages are infinite, but sentences are not

• Words in languages aren´t finite, but sentences are.

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• The rules are called grammar, these are learned as one study a language.

• The rules are learned as one acquires a language.

• The rules of a language, also called grammar, are learned as one acquires a language.

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• the sounds and meanings of words are not arbitrary. For the most part, there is relationship between the way a word is pronounced (or signed) and its meaning.

• the sounds and meanings of words are arbitrary. For the most part, there is no relationship

  between the way a word is pronounced (or signed) and its meaning.

• the sounds and meanings of words are arbitrary. For the most part, there is relationship

  between the way a word is pronounced (or signed) and its meaning.

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• Although,we are not speaking the

  language, we still have the knowledge of it

• Although,we speak a language, we don´t have the knowledge of it

• Although,we are not speaking the

  language, we still have the knowledge of it

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• descriptive grammar) is a grammar that represents the

  conscious knowledge of a language.

• descriptive grammar) is a grammar that represents the

  unconscious knowledge.

• descriptive grammar) is a grammar that represents the

  unconscious knowledge of a language.

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• Descriptive grammar does not teach the rules of a language but instead describes or regulates that are already known.

• Descriptive grammar teaches the rules of a language but instead describes or regulates that are already known.

• Descriptive grammar does not teach the rules of a language but instead describes or regulates that are already unknown.

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• prescriptive grammar dictates what a

  speaker's grammar shouldn´t be, and they don´t include teaching grammar, which is written to help

  teach a foreign language.

• prescriptive grammar dictates what a

  speaker's grammar should be, and they include teaching grammar, which is written to help

  teach a foreign language.

• prescriptive grammar dictates what a

  speaker's grammar should do, and they include teaching grammar, which is oral to help

  teach a foreign language.

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• Finocchioro who defines a language as a

  system of arbitrary, vocal symbols that permit all people in a given culture, or other people to knows the culture.

• Finocchioro who defines a language as a

  system of arbitrary, vocal symbols that permit all people in a given culture, or other people who

  have learned the system of that culture, to communicate or to interact

• Finocchioro doesn´t defines a language as a

  system of arbitrary, vocal symbols that permit all people in a given culture to communicate or to interact

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• sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language and society. It explains we people speak differently in different social settings.

• sociolinguistics doen´tstudies the relationship between language and society. It

  explains we people speak the same in different social settings.

• sociolinguistics it studies the relationship between language and society. It explains we people speak differently in different social settings.