2023-2 W8 - ITL - Morphology Quiz

What is morphology in linguistics?

• a) The study of sounds in language

• b) The study of word meanings

• c) The study of word structure and formation

• d) The study of sentence structure

What is a compound word?

• a) A word that is derived from another word

• b) A word that consists of two or more root words

• c) A word that is formed by combining two separate words

• d) A word that is repeated for emphasis

What is the process of adding affixes to a root word called?

• a) Derivation

• b) Inflection

• c) Concatenation

• d) Affixation

Which of the following is NOT a morpheme?

• a) Prefix

• b) Suffix

• c) Root

• d) Conjunction

What is a morpheme?

• a) The smallest unit of sound in language

• b) The smallest unit of meaning in language

• c) The smallest unit of sentence in language

• d) The smallest unit of paragraph in language

Which morphological process involves changing the grammatical function or meaning of a word without changing its form?

• a) Derivation

• b) Inflection

• c) Compounding

• d) Reduplication

What is a free morpheme?

• a) A morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word

• b) A morpheme that can stand alone as a word

• c) A morpheme that changes the meaning of a word

• d) A morpheme that is added to the beginning of a word

Which of the following is a bound morpheme?

• a) Cat

• b) Un-

• c) Jump

• d) Happy

Which of the following is an example of reduplication?

• a) The word "untie"

• b) The word "cats"

• c) The word "tick-tock"

• d) The word "happy"

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