Week 2 Lin Review

We call language (mostly) arbitrary because there is no connection between the word form or sound and its referent

• True

• False

Which is NOT an example of an arbitrary symbol?

• Dog

• House

• Meow

• Cow

Linguistic performance refers to our underlying knowledge of language rules

• True
• False

Written language is the same as spoken/signed language

• True

• False

Rules about grammar that you would find written in a textbook or a piece of legislature are...

• Prescriptive

• Fake

• Descriptive

• Mental

A descriptive grammar refers to an attempt to measure how language is actually spoken, including variation and mistakes

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a level of language structure?

• Morphology

• Phonology

• Pragmatics

• All of the above are examples of linguistic structure