Language properties

Kiswahili is the national language in

• India

• Tanzania

• Uganda

• Saudi Arabia

Kiswahili belongs to

• Austronesian languages

• Indio-European languages

• Sino-Tibetan languages

• Bantu languages

What language property belong to the statistical universals?

• distinction between nouns and verbs

• vowels and consonants

• SVO word order (subject + verb + object)

• If a language has inflection, it always has derivation

Who did not carry out the experiments of language deprivation?

• Alexander the Great

• the Egyptian Pharaoh Psammetichus I

• Roman Emperor Frederick II

• James IV of Scotland

A property of language that involves the repeated use of a particular type of a linguistic element
or grammatical structure is called

• modularity

• recursion

• arbitrariness

• duality

Which sentence describes the language property called DISPLACEMENT?

• Language users can refer to the past and future and to other locations.

• Language is acquired from caregivers and other speakers.

• There is no natural connection between a linguistic form and the objects it represents.

• Language consists of modules (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.).

Mark the wrong answer.

The features of human anatomy that enabled him to develop speech are

• upright teeth

• flexible lips

• small mouth

• short larynx

Phonology is the science that describes

• morphemes

• lexemes

• phrases

• phonemes

The influence of which culture is evident in the Swahili language?

• Japanese

• European

• Islamic

• Jewish

Which language property refers to the ability of language users to create new words and phrases?

• modularity

• duality

• arbitrariness

• productivity