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WorksheetsFinal Test: Intro to Linguistics
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which is correct about the origin of language?
We simply don't know how language originated.
We simply don't know how language originated.
The primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds.
All answers are correct.
What is "onomatopoeia"?
The language echoed natural sounds.
It consists of sounds and meaning.
The pictures that the primitive people painted on the cave wall.
What is the study of the production and perception of speech sounds?
Phonology
Morphology
Phonetics
Syntax
The study of the sound patterns of language is called ______________.
Articulation
Phonetics
Pragmatics
Phonology
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can make a difference to meaning in a language.
True
False
Are voiced sounds spoken using the vibration of our voice?
True
False
In which word do you find the /ei/ sound?
Table
Cat
Map
Ankle
What would a hyponym be for the hypernym of the environment?
Rubbish
Pen
Computer mouse
Oaktree
What is neurolinguistics?
The study of how language is represented in the brain.
The language of neurons.
A and B are correct.
What is pragmatics?
Communicates distance and non-familiarity. Also, it has an ironic or humorous purpose.
When speakers mark how close or distant something is perceived to be.
Studies how people make sense of each other linguistically or based on contextual meaning.
Forms used to point to the location in time.
The sounds [ ʤ ] are produced with ….
The lips
The tongue
The teeth
The soft palate
Below is a zero morpheme.
sheep
boyish
loved
rewrite
In this sentence: “...no benefits justify the risk of nuclear weapons...I will explain why nuclear technology has a future on our planet despite its dangers.” Which type of lexical cohesion can you find?
Synonymy
Antonymy
Hyponymy
Which of the following would NOT be considered a part of sociolinguistics?
The study of the attitudes of people towards certain speech characteristics.
The study of socioeconomic and/or political power factors and their influence on language change.
The general perception of a dialect within a society.
The study of the sounds in spoken language.
Code-switching is the branch of sociolinguistics that is often spoken using two or more languages. It doesn’t occur when ….
The speakers shape a sense of identity.
The speakers speak in one language.
The speakers feel more comfortable speaking in a specific language.
The speakers maintain a sense of belonging to a larger community.
What is a speech community?
A regionally or socially defined social group where the members share a language variety.
A group that shares the same language, speech characteristics, and identity.
Persons who know about language.
A group that does not share a language, speech characteristics, and identity.
The difference between accent and dialect is ….
Dialect deals with pronouncing words while accent deals with grammar, morphology, vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation.
Accent deals with pronouncing words while dialect deals with grammar, morphology, vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation.
Accent refers to the whole conversation package while dialect is the part of it.
Accent can be recognized in every language while dialect cannot.
The simplest method in acquiring L2 is ….
The audio-lingual method.
The grammar–translation method
Communicative approaches
Passive learning method
Which is correct about affective factors in L2 acquisition?
Older seem to be less constrained.
Teenagers are more prepared than younger children.
The younger people study, the harder they acquire.
The crucial period in acquiring L2 is in school.
The best time to learn a second language is in:
early childhood
junior and senior high school
college
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