I MA English - Phonetics - Intro - Air-stream - Organs

___ is a systematic,scientific study of language.

• Linguistics
• Phoentics
• Phonology
• Morphology

Language is a ____ of systems.

• system
• bunch
• type
• kind

The four systems of a language are: phonoloy, ____, syntax and semantics.

• morphology
• ontology
• philology
• philosophy

What is "syntax"?

• the strucutre of a sentence
• meaning of a sentence
• meaning of a word
• meaning of a morpheme

What is a morpheme?

• a basic minimal meaningful unit
• a basic minimal distinctive unit
• a word
• a sentence

What is "phonetics"?

• A scientific study of speech sounds
• A scientific study of the organization and the function of speech sounds
• A scientific study of meanings of words
• A scientific study of sentence structures

What is "semantics"?

• A study of meaning
• A study of sentence structure
• A study of words
• A study of sounds

The three branches of phonetics are: articulatory, ____ and auditory.

• acoustic
• phonological
• phonetic
• linguistic

The articulatory phonetics is concerned with the ____ of sounds.

• production
• transmission
• perception
• implementation

What is a grapheme?

• a combination of letters
• a combination of sounds
• a combination of sentences
• a combination of morphemes