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Applied Linguistics - Language, Linguistics and FLT 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Articulatory phonetics is the study of how sounds are received by the ears and decoded by the brain.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

“and”, “or”, and “but” are content words.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

 “hope”, “believe” and “child” are bound morphemes.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

“ceive” in “receive” is a bound root.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The meaning of a compound is always the sum of the meanings of its parts.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Sign languages are rich in morphology.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

In the articulation of vowels, the airflow is relatively (a)   ; in consonants, the airflow is obstructed.

8.

Allophone is a variation of a (a)   .

9.

Morphologically complex words consist of a morpheme ________ and one or more affixes.

a)

root

b)

stem

c)

bound root

10.

Bound morphemes like -ify, -cation and -arian are called _________ morphemes.

a)

inflectional

b)

free

c)

derivational

11.

 Inflectional morphemes are bound morphemes which have a strictly _________ function marking properties such as tense, number, person, and so forth.

a)

lexical

b)

grammatical

c)

 inflectional

12.

Syntax is the study of rules that govern the way words are combined to form phrases, clauses, and sentences in a language.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Reference is the extension of a word.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

A word has multiple meanings that are related conceptually or historically is called (a)   .

15.

The study of how context affects meaning is called ________.

a)

pragmatics

b)

semantics

c)

phonetics

d)

morphology