WorksheetsIntroduction to linguistics: the quiz
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of these people is NOT a linguist?
a)
Ferdinand de Saussure
b)
Jacob Grimm
c)
Paul Grice
d)
Keanu Reeves
2.
Which of these is NOT a property of human language?
a)
displacement
b)
reflexivity
c)
genetic transmission
d)
creativity
3.
What do the sounds /ð/, /æ/, /ʒ/ and /v/ have in common?
a)
They are voiceless.
b)
They are voiced.
c)
They are fricatives.
d)
They are affricates.
4.
What's the correct phonemic transcription of the word linguistics?
a)
/lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks/
b)
/lɪŋˈgwɪstɪkz/
c)
/ling'wɪstɪks/
d)
/lɪŋˈgvɪstɪks/
5.
Which of these is an example of an allophone in English?
a)
[z] in dogs
b)
[ɫ] (dark l)
c)
rhoticity
d)
[d] in played
6.
The word inconceivable is made of...
a)
3 morphemes: {IN}+{CONCEIVE}+{ABLE}
b)
2 morphemes: {IN}+{CONCEIVABLE}
c)
3 morphemes: {IN}+{CONCEI}+{VABLE}
d)
4 morphmes: {IN}+{CON}+{CEIV}+{ABLE}
7.
The word bromance is an example of...
a)
neologism
b)
exocentric compounding
c)
blending
d)
endocentric compounding
8.
What's the first-level structure of this sentence? Climate change is real.
a)
S:NP + V:VP + Od:AdjP
b)
S:NP + V:VP + Od:NP
c)
S:NP + V:VP + Cs:AdjP
d)
S:NP + V:VP + A:AdvP
9.
In the sentence The movie should win at the Oscars, "at the Oscars" is...
a)
A prepositional phrase (PP)
b)
An indirect object
c)
A noun phrase (NP)
d)
A direct object
10.
"Downing Street refuses to say if England will return to tier system": Downing Street is...
a)
a metaphor
b)
a metonymy
c)
a connotation
d)
an illocutionary act
11.
Which of these is NOT a Gricean maxim?
a)
relevance
b)
quantity
c)
quality
d)
manner
12.
Which of these propositions is FALSE?
a)
Women tend to use more standard forms than men
b)
In the department store study, Labov studied rhoticity
c)
"Accent" refers to pronunciation only
d)
The inner-, outer- and expanding circles are part of Schneider's model
13.
Which of these statements on the Great Vowel Shift (GVS) is FALSE?
a)
It only affected long vowels
b)
It (partly) explains the spelling of words such as food and deed.
c)
It is responsible for some irregular plurals such as foot-feet.
d)
It was completed around 1700.
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