Review - Meeting 2

Linguistics focuses on

• the scientific study of language

• English phonetics

• the study of world languages

• the rules and conventions of language

Linguists need to be fluent in languages

• True

• False

Below are the principles which differ linguistics from traditional grammar, except...

• Linguistics does not force languages into

  Latin-based framework

• Spoken language is primary

• Written language is the standard

• Linguistics is descriptive

Below are the characteristics of language, except...

• Displacement

• Monism

• The need for learning

• Using sound signals

The branch of linguistics that study the sound patterns of language is

• Phonetics

• Phonology

• Phonotactics

• Psycholinguistics

The branch of linguistics that study the arrangement and forms of words

• Sociology

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Sociolinguistics

The characteristic of language which states the organization of language into two layers is

called...

• Arbitrariness

• Displacement

• Duality

• Patterning

Below are the area of linguistics according to its directions, except...

• Prescriptive linguistics

• Interdisciplinary linguistics

• Historical linguistics

• Descriptive linguistics