5030_Week 1 Review

This subfield of linguistics explains how to put sounds together to form words

• Pragmatics

• Phonology

• Semantics

• Syntax

This subfield of linguistics explains how to put words together to form sentences

• Pragmatics

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Morphology

This subfield of linguistics explains how to participate in conversation, how to sequence sentences, how to anticipate the information needed by the interlocutor

• Pragmatics

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Morphology

Speakers of different languages view /perceive the world differently.

• True

• False

There is a critical period during which a human can acquire the language. When this period is over, a language cannot be acquired fully.

• True

• False

None representative of animal world can learn a human language, even parrots.

• True

• False

All languages share certain fundamental properties. These features are called..

• Meta-language

• Universal Grammar

• Descriptive Grammar

• I-language

Any language has its standard dialect that should be taught and spoken by all educated people of that language community.

• True

• False

A language user performs as much as he/she knows of that language.

• True

• False

Any language has a finite number of rules, but a competent language user can understand and create an infinite set of new sentences.

• True

• False