Intro to Linguistics Review

All human languages have a small, limited set of speech sounds (phonemes) due to the restricted capacity of our vocal apparatus. On the contrary, these phonemes can be assembled and reassembled into larger linguistic units called “words” and human capacity to produce vocabulary is unlimited. This property of language is called:

• Duality of patterning
• Displacement
• Open the ended-ness

The absence of any natural or necessary connection between a word's meaning and its sound or form (such as why a table is called a "table") is called:

• Onomatopoeia
• Arbitrariness
• Stimulus-freedom

Which of these words is based on the phenomena “Onomatopoeia”?

• Chair
• Car
• Cuckoo

It refers to messages that are transmitted out loud from one person to another.

• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Non Verbal Communication

This type of communication is not transitory but permanent. It enables us to keep exact records of language and communication.

• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Verbal Communication

The linguists Leonard Bloomfield and Ferdinand de Saussure belonged to which of the following tradition:

• Generativism
• Behaviorism
• Structuralism

Which of these finds out how a certain set of people use a language at a given time?

• Diachronic Linguistics
• Comparative Linguistics
• Synchronic Linguistics

The study of sound patterns of language, the study of word formation and structure, and the study of sentence structure are consecutively called:

• Phonetics - Morphology - Semantics
• Phonology - Morphology - Syntax
• Phonology - Morphology – Semantics

Phonetics has three main branches. The one that is concerned with the positions and movements of the lips, tongue, vocal tract, and other speech organs in producing speech is called:

• articulatory phonetics
• auditory phonetics
• acoustic phonetics

Which of these words have three syllables?

• picturesque, foregrounded, Renaissance
• awareness, delighted, unsuccessful
• catalogue, breakthrough, dangerous