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Linguistics Text

Total questions: 73

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which one is considered as linguistic communication?

a)

Raising of eyebrows

b)

Posting status in English on your Facebook

c)

Moving hands in different gestures

d)

Clenching of fists

2.

Which is not true about the language?

a)

Many animals have languages much like human languages.

b)

Language is a linguistic code.

c)

The speaker and the listener have to share the same linguistic code in order to understand each other.

d)

We simply don't know how language originated.

3.

What is symptomatic sign?

a)

Traffic lights

b)

Icons

c)

Grimacing face

d)

Pictographs

4.

Which is correct about the origin of language?

a)

We simply don't know how language originated.

b)

Some believed that language is the present from gods.

c)

The primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds.

d)

All answers are correct.

5.

What is "onomatopoeia"?

a)

Language that echoed natural sounds.

b)

It consists of sounds and meaning.

c)

The pictures that the primitive people painted on the cave wall.

d)

Human speech sounds

6.

Which is not true about language?

a)

Correct spelling preserves a language.

b)

The same words in the same order don't always mean the same thing.

c)

All language reflect social and cultural aspects of a society.

d)

It's easier to learn English if you are in the environment where English is used all the time.

7.

There is no connection between form and meaning. How can we call it.

a)

Displacement

b)

Discreteness

c)

Arbitrariness

d)

Productivity

8.

The elements of language are composed of, or can be broken into, distinct smaller linguistic units. What is it?

a)

Displacement

b)

Duality

c)

Productivity

d)

Discreteness

9.

We acquire a language in a culture with other speakers and not from parental genes?

a)

Arbitrariness

b)

Duality

c)

Cultural transmission

d)

Productivity

10.

A French tourist said to you "Il pleut dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville" and you don't understand. It means that you don't have a __________________.

a)

linguistic performance

b)

linguistic competence

c)

linguistic knowledge

d)

both linguistic competence and linguistic knowledge are correct.

11.

What is the study of the production and perception of speech sounds

a)

phonology

b)

morphology

c)

phonetics

d)

syntax

12.

The study of the sound patterns of language is called ______________.

a)

articulation

b)

phonetics

c)

pragmatics

d)

phonology

13.

In actual speech, these [t] sounds are all different.

•[th] in tar, [t] in star and [D] in the word water.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

________________ is the study of word formation and structure.

a)

Phonology

b)

Syntax

c)

Morphology

d)

Semantics

15.

Which sentence is ungrammatical?

a)

I will pick that package up at eight o’clock.

b)

At eight o’clock, I will pick up the package.

c)

I will picks the package up at eight o’clock.

16.

______________is the study of meaning.

a)

Semantics

b)

Pragmatics

c)

Syntax

d)

Phonetics

17.

What is pragmatics?

a)

a study of a word in our mind

b)

a study of meaning in context in which a word or a sentence is used.

c)

a study of phrases and sentences

18.

ภาษาศาสตร์เชิงสังคม เรียกเป็นภาษาอังกฤษว่าอย่างไร

a)

Anthropological linguistics

b)

Psycholinguistics

c)

Neurolinguistics

d)

Sociolinguistics

19.

Why is lingustics worth studying?

a)

to help people who have problems with using language

b)

the more effective the desired communication is likely to be

c)

to help learners learn another language effectively

d)

All of the above

20.

If you are studying rules of syntax, are you studying linguistic competence or linguistic performance

a)

Linguistic competence

b)

Linguistic performance

21.

Linguistics focuses on

a)

the study of world languages

b)

the rules and conventions of language

c)

English phonetics

d)

the scientific study of language

22.

the branches of linguistics that focus on the structure of language

a)

syntax & pragmatics

b)

morphology & phonology

c)

morphology & syntax

d)

syntax & semantics

23.

The branches of linguistics that focus on the sound system of a language

a)

phonetics & semantics

b)

phonetics & phonology

c)

semantics & syntax

d)

morphology & pragmatics

24.

The branches of linguistics that focus on the meaning of a language

a)

semantics & phonology

b)

semantics & pragmatics

c)

morphology & pragmatics

d)

pragmatics & phonology

25.

Which one of the two developed first: written language or spoken language?

a)

written

b)

spoken

26.

The natural sound source includes the bow-wow theory.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

The social interaction theory’s idea is that the sound of a person involved in ------- effort could be a source of our language.

a)

physical

b)

psychological

28.

How many physical adaption sources can a human possess?

a)

1

b)

15

c)

5

d)

6

29.

A computer being pre-programmed is an example of?

a)

the Natural sound source

b)

the Physical adaptation source

c)

the Divine source

d)

the Genetic source

30.

The study of interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects is called___________.

a)

Neurolinguistics

b)

Psycholinguistics

c)

Sociolinguistics

31.

He is considered the godfather of prescriptive grammar.

a)

Bishop Robert Lowe

b)

Noam Chomsky

32.

The study of appropriate languge use in different social contexts.

a)

semantics

b)

phonetics

c)

pragmatics

d)

linguistics

33.

The type of grammar that provides rules and tells speaker how they SHOULD use the language.

a)

Descriptive Grammar

b)

Universal Grammar

c)

Prescriptive Grammar

34.

The type of grammar that suggests that all languages follow fairly similar linguistic processes/structures and that there are rules that hold in all languages.

a)

Descriptive Grammar

b)

Universal Grammar

c)

Prescriptive Grammar

35.

The type of grammar that merely describes the way in which speakers of a language actually use the language, following the mental rules they know

a)

Descriptive Grammar

b)

Universal Grammar

c)

Prescriptive Grammar

36.

macrolinguistics, except

a)

sociolinguistics

b)

semantics

c)

pragmatics

d)

functional linguistics

37.

Noam Chomsky's theory about linguistic, except

a)

Language acquisition device/ LAD in human's brain

b)

language can be received naturally

c)

how people exchange meaning by languaging

d)

Universal grammar

38.

what is Halliday's theory about linguistic? you can choose 2 answers

a)

metafunction of meaning

b)

functional language

c)

structural language

d)

universal grammar/ UG

39.

how many phonemes are from the word " door"?

a)

4

b)

3

c)

2

d)

1

40.

places of articulation, except

a)

dental, velar, bilabial

b)

dental, alveolar, palatal

c)

palatal, nasal, bilabial

d)

alveolar, palatal, glotal

41.

glotal's sound

a)

/t/

b)

/h/

c)

/m/

d)

/v/

42.

manners of articulation, except

a)

fricative

b)

stop

c)

oral

d)

voiceless

43.

The word Latin word "lingua" means

a)

Tongue

b)

Mouth

c)

Roof of the mouth

d)

Lungs

44.

In linguistic data samples of language is called :

a)

Corpse

b)

Lingua

c)

Corpus

d)

Canon

45.

Phonetics is the study of

a)

Production of speech sound

b)

Organisation of speech sound

c)

Articulation of speech sound

d)

Reception of speech sound

46.

The study of interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects is called :

a)

Psycho linguistics

b)

Sociolinguistics

c)

Neurolinguistics

d)

Comparitive Linguistics

47.

Forensic linguistics is a branch of

a)

Applied linguistics

b)

Psycholinguistics

c)

Neurolinguistics

d)

Comparative linguistics

48.

The belief that all children have a capacity for language learning is part of the ______________.

a)

cognitive theory.

b)

behaviorist theory

c)

universal grammar

d)

innatist theory

49.

According to Chomski's, children's acquisition of grammatical rules is guided by the principles of the development of a(n) innate _________________ capacity.

a)

universal grammar

b)

LAD

c)

stimuli

d)

reinforcement

50.

Universal grammar means that ....

a)

all children can learn grammar.

b)

linguistic rules manifest themselves without being taught.

c)

is an innate ability.

d)

linguistic rules are similar across languages.

51.

In Linguistics, the aspect that focuses on the structure of a language:

a)

pragmatics & phonology

b)

morphology & phonology

c)

semantics & syntax

d)

morphology & syntax

52.

In the FLA process of language acquisition, this problem is an example of _____________ in children

a)

universal grammar

b)

overgeneralization

c)

cooeing

d)

babbling

53.

LAD means...

a)

Language Acquired Dimension

b)

Language Acquisition Devised

c)

Language Acquisition Device

d)

Linguistic Acquisition Devise

54.

What is not an example of a TELEGRAPHIC formations in FLA

a)

mommy milk

b)

ba ba ba ba ba ba

c)

cat go

d)

Up dad

55.

The Telegraphic speech (2 years +) in FLA are

a)

normal developed speech

b)

one-word phrases

c)

baby babbles

d)

multi word formations that lack in function

56.

An author that related cognitive development as an important factor for language development was:

a)

Jean Piaget

b)

Noam Chomski

c)

BF Skinner

d)

Stephen Krasken

57.

The work for which Saussure came to be known?

a)

A Study in General Linguistics

b)

A Chapter in General Linguistics

c)

A Course in General Linguistics

d)

A Course in General Languages

58.

According to Saussure, meanings of words are ?

a)

Different

b)

Relational

c)

Opposed

d)

Contextual

59.

Lexicon is

a)

A branch of Linguistics

b)

the list of the words of any language

c)

None of them

60.

What are words?

a)

Something that is arbitrary

b)

pairing of sound and meaning

c)

All of the above

61.

What are morphemes?

a)

Suffixes

b)

Small units of words

c)

the study of words structures

62.

Free morphemes are

a)

Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme

b)

Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions

c)

Words that are made up of only one morpheme and can stand alone as an English word

63.

A linguists` long-term goal is

a)

to study the differences between different countries

b)

to find out what all languages have in common

c)

to recognize the grammatical structures

64.

linguistic competence refers to

a)

one's unconscious linguistic knowledge

b)

the basic linguistic knowledge used in real-life situations

c)

one's ability to produce grammatical language

d)

one's ability to explain how language works

65.

The tendency to replace exceptions to grammatical patterns/rules with forms that fit the more general pattern is known as

a)

regularization

b)

normalization

c)

coordination

d)

systematization

66.

Linguistics is a science because...

a)

it makes use of every day language

b)

makes use of technical vocabulary

67.

The teacher should not permit the use of the native language as this would hamper the development of English.

a)

True

b)

False

68.

According to Chomski's, children's acquisition of grammatical rules is guided by the principles of the development of a(n) innate _________________ capacity.

a)

universal grammar

b)

LAD

c)

stimuli

d)

reinforcement

69.

A linguists` long-term goal is

a)

to study the differences between different countries

b)

to find out what all languages have in common

c)

to recognize the grammatical structures

70.
the language change and the reconstruction of linguistic history is studied in
a)
theoretical linguistics
b)
historical linguistics
c)
psycholinguistics
d)
sociolinguistics
71.
the language learning and language processing is studied in
a)
theoretical linguistics
b)
historical linguistics
c)
computational linguistics
d)
pshycholinguistics
72.

microlinguistics, except

a)

syntax

b)

morphology

c)

pragmatics

d)

semantics

73.

What is neurolinguistics?

a)

Is the study of how language is represented in the brain.

b)

Is the language of neurons.

c)

A and B are correct.