Introduction to linguistics: the quiz

Which of these people is NOT a linguist?

• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Jacob Grimm
• Paul Grice
• Keanu Reeves

Which of these is NOT a property of human language?

• displacement
• reflexivity
• genetic transmission
• creativity

What do the sounds /ð/, /æ/, /ʒ/ and /v/ have in common?

• They are voiceless.
• They are voiced.
• They are fricatives.
• They are affricates.

What's the correct phonemic transcription of the word linguistics?

• /lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks/
• /lɪŋˈgwɪstɪkz/
• /ling'wɪstɪks/
• /lɪŋˈgvɪstɪks/

Which of these is an example of an allophone in English?

• [z] in dogs
• [ɫ] (dark l)
• rhoticity
• [d] in played

The word inconceivable is made of...

• 3 morphemes: {IN}+{CONCEIVE}+{ABLE}
• 2 morphemes: {IN}+{CONCEIVABLE}
• 3 morphemes: {IN}+{CONCEI}+{VABLE}
• 4 morphmes: {IN}+{CON}+{CEIV}+{ABLE}

The word bromance is an example of...

• neologism
• exocentric compounding
• blending
• endocentric compounding

What's the first-level structure of this sentence? Climate change is real.

• S:NP + V:VP + Od:AdjP
• S:NP + V:VP + Od:NP
• S:NP + V:VP + Cs:AdjP
• S:NP + V:VP + A:AdvP

In the sentence The movie should win at the Oscars, "at the Oscars" is...

• A prepositional phrase (PP)
• An indirect object
• A noun phrase (NP)
• A direct object

"Downing Street refuses to say if England will return to tier system": Downing Street is...

• a metaphor
• a metonymy
• a connotation
• an illocutionary act