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WorksheetsLanguage Universals
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Languages in different parts of the world are extremely different, but also similar.
True
False
Language universlas refers to what human languages have in common.
True
False
Example of implicational universals
Subjects tend strongly to precede objects.
All languages have vowels and consonants.
If a language has voiced fricatives, it also has unvoiced fricatives, but not necessarily the other way round
Lexicalization
It refers to the example that if a language has property A, then it also has property B, but not necessarily the other way round.
Absolute universal
Implicational universal
Statistical universal
Lexicalization
It refers to properties found in all languages.
Absolute universals
Statistical universals
Implicational Universals
Lexicalization
It reflects important trends that are found in a predominant part of the languages of the world, but not necessarily in all.
Absolute universals
Statistical universals
Implicational universals
Lexicalization
Example of absolute universal.
All languages have vowels and consonants.
Subjects tend strongly to precede objects.
If a language has voiced fricatives, it also has unvoiced fricatives, but not necessarily the other way round.
All (or at least nearly all) languages of the world also make a distinction between nouns and verbs.
Universals of speech sounds
Universals of word clases
Phonotactic universals
All languages distinguish between vowels and consonants
Universals of speech sounds
Universals of word classes
Phonotactical universals
All languages that allow VC, also allow CVC and V, as well as the universal CV.
Speech sounds universals
Universals of word classes
phonotactical universals
