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WorksheetsApplied Linguistics - Language, Linguistics and FLT 2
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
Articulatory phonetics is the study of how sounds are received by the ears and decoded by the brain.
True
False
“and”, “or”, and “but” are content words.
True
False
“hope”, “believe” and “child” are bound morphemes.
True
False
“ceive” in “receive” is a bound root.
True
False
The meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meanings of its parts.
True
False
Sign languages are rich in morphology.
True
False
In the articulation of vowels, the airflow is relatively (a) ; in consonants, the airflow is obstructed.
Allophone is a variation of a (a) .
Morphologically complex words consist of a morpheme ________ and one or more affixes.
root
stem
bound root
Bound morphemes like -ify, -cation and -arian are called _________ morphemes.
inflectional
free
derivational
Inflectional morphemes are bound morphemes which have a strictly _________ function marking properties such as tense, number, person, and so forth.
lexical
grammatical
inflectional
Syntax is the study of rules that govern the way words are combined to form phrases, clauses, and sentences in a language.
True
False
Reference is the extension of a word.
True
False
A word has multiple meanings that are related conceptually or historically is called (a) .
The study of how context affects meaning is called ________.
pragmatics
semantics
phonetics
morphology
