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Properties of Human Language

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A mouse squeaks when it is hungry, it squeaks the same sound when it is threatened, and it still produces the same squeak when it is dying.

a)

Reflexivity

b)

Displacement

c)

Duality

d)

Productivity

2.

Do you know Sacha Stevenson, that famous YouTuber? She speaks Bahasa Indonesia well because she has been living in Indonesia for quite a long time.

a)

Productivity

b)

Displacement

c)

Cultural Transmission

d)

Duality

3.

I know and can describe what a noun is in front of my friends in English.

a)

Reflexivity

b)

Displacement

c)

Productivity

d)

Duality

4.

I know that ‘amen’, ‘mean’, ‘name’, and ‘mane’ are different words with different meanings although they use the same letters: a-m-e-n.

a)

Reflexivity

b)

Displacement

c)

Arbitrariness

d)

Duality

5.

My friend, Ketut, was born in Sydney to Balinese parents. He is fluent in English, but he knows no Balinese words!

a)

Cultural Transmission

b)

Displacement

c)

Arbitrariness

d)

Productivity

6.

Shakespeare invented many new words! Thanks to him, now we have ‘eyeball,’ ‘assassination’, ‘addiction’, ‘accused’, ‘bedazzled,’ and many others.

a)

Cultural Transmission

b)

Reflexivity

c)

Arbitrariness

d)

Productivity

7.

The microscopic thing causing the pandemic is a virus, but I don’t know why it is called a virus. Well, I've heard of a scientist who once named it a virus.

a)

Displacement

b)

Reflexivity

c)

Arbitrariness

d)

Duality

8.

We used to have PSBB, or Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar, and now the government use PPKM, or Pemberlakuan Pembatasan Kegiatan Masyarakat.

a)

Displacement

b)

Reflexivity

c)

Cultural Transmision

d)

Productivity

9.

Well, I’m looking at the texts on my phone screen.


But, wait, why is it called a screen, not a mirror, or a wzxygwj?

a)

Displacement

b)

Reflexivity

c)

Arbitrariness

d)

Duality

10.

Many people talk about the concept of a flat earth, and they do believe in its existence although they might have never seen it from the space.

a)

Displacement

b)

Productivity

c)

Cultural Transmission

d)

Duality

11.

You and your teacher discuss English and its rules in grammar classes using English language.

a)

Arbitrariness

b)

Productivity

c)

Cultural Transmission

d)

Reflexivity

12.

You invite your friends to plan your trip to Bali next December. It is still eleven months away!

a)

Displacement

b)

Productivity

c)

Cultural Transmission

d)

Arbitrariness