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Total questions: 73
Worksheet time: 45mins
Which one is considered as linguistic communication?
Raising of eyebrows
Posting status in English on your Facebook
Moving hands in different gestures
Clenching of fists
Which is not true about the language?
Many animals have languages much like human languages.
Language is a linguistic code.
The speaker and the listener have to share the same linguistic code in order to understand each other.
We simply don't know how language originated.
What is symptomatic sign?
Traffic lights
Icons
Grimacing face
Pictographs
Which is correct about the origin of language?
We simply don't know how language originated.
Some believed that language is the present from gods.
The primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds.
All answers are correct.
What is "onomatopoeia"?
Language that echoed natural sounds.
It consists of sounds and meaning.
The pictures that the primitive people painted on the cave wall.
Human speech sounds
Which is not true about language?
Correct spelling preserves a language.
The same words in the same order don't always mean the same thing.
All language reflect social and cultural aspects of a society.
It's easier to learn English if you are in the environment where English is used all the time.
There is no connection between form and meaning. How can we call it.
Displacement
Discreteness
Arbitrariness
Productivity
The elements of language are composed of, or can be broken into, distinct smaller linguistic units. What is it?
Displacement
Duality
Productivity
Discreteness
We acquire a language in a culture with other speakers and not from parental genes?
Arbitrariness
Duality
Cultural transmission
Productivity
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 __________________.
linguistic performance
linguistic competence
linguistic knowledge
both linguistic competence and linguistic knowledge are correct.
What is the study of the production and perception of speech sounds
phonology
morphology
phonetics
syntax
The study of the sound patterns of language is called ______________.
articulation
phonetics
pragmatics
phonology
In actual speech, these [t] sounds are all different.
•[th] in tar, [t] in star and [D] in the word water.
True
False
________________ is the study of word formation and structure.
Phonology
Syntax
Morphology
Semantics
Which sentence is ungrammatical?
I will pick that package up at eight o’clock.
At eight o’clock, I will pick up the package.
I will picks the package up at eight o’clock.
______________is the study of meaning.
Semantics
Pragmatics
Syntax
Phonetics
What is pragmatics?
a study of a word in our mind
a study of meaning in context in which a word or a sentence is used.
a study of phrases and sentences
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Anthropological linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Neurolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Why is lingustics worth studying?
to help people who have problems with using language
the more effective the desired communication is likely to be
to help learners learn another language effectively
All of the above
If you are studying rules of syntax, are you studying linguistic competence or linguistic performance
Linguistic competence
Linguistic performance
Linguistics focuses on
the study of world languages
the rules and conventions of language
English phonetics
the scientific study of language
the branches of linguistics that focus on the structure of language
syntax & pragmatics
morphology & phonology
morphology & syntax
syntax & semantics
The branches of linguistics that focus on the sound system of a language
phonetics & semantics
phonetics & phonology
semantics & syntax
morphology & pragmatics
The branches of linguistics that focus on the meaning of a language
semantics & phonology
semantics & pragmatics
morphology & pragmatics
pragmatics & phonology
Which one of the two developed first: written language or spoken language?
written
spoken
The natural sound source includes the bow-wow theory.
True
False
The social interaction theory’s idea is that the sound of a person involved in ------- effort could be a source of our language.
physical
psychological
How many physical adaption sources can a human possess?
1
15
5
6
A computer being pre-programmed is an example of?
the Natural sound source
the Physical adaptation source
the Divine source
the Genetic source
The study of interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects is called___________.
Neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
He is considered the godfather of prescriptive grammar.
Bishop Robert Lowe
Noam Chomsky
The study of appropriate languge use in different social contexts.
semantics
phonetics
pragmatics
linguistics
The type of grammar that provides rules and tells speaker how they SHOULD use the language.
Descriptive Grammar
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive Grammar
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.
Descriptive Grammar
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive Grammar
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
Descriptive Grammar
Universal Grammar
Prescriptive Grammar
macrolinguistics, except
sociolinguistics
semantics
pragmatics
functional linguistics
Noam Chomsky's theory about linguistic, except
Language acquisition device/ LAD in human's brain
language can be received naturally
how people exchange meaning by languaging
Universal grammar
what is Halliday's theory about linguistic? you can choose 2 answers
metafunction of meaning
functional language
structural language
universal grammar/ UG
how many phonemes are from the word " door"?
4
3
2
1
places of articulation, except
dental, velar, bilabial
dental, alveolar, palatal
palatal, nasal, bilabial
alveolar, palatal, glotal
glotal's sound
/t/
/h/
/m/
/v/
manners of articulation, except
fricative
stop
oral
voiceless
The word Latin word "lingua" means
Tongue
Mouth
Roof of the mouth
Lungs
In linguistic data samples of language is called :
Corpse
Lingua
Corpus
Canon
Phonetics is the study of
Production of speech sound
Organisation of speech sound
Articulation of speech sound
Reception of speech sound
The study of interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects is called :
Psycho linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Neurolinguistics
Comparitive Linguistics
Forensic linguistics is a branch of
Applied linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Neurolinguistics
Comparative linguistics
The belief that all children have a capacity for language learning is part of the ______________.
cognitive theory.
behaviorist theory
universal grammar
innatist theory
According to Chomski's, children's acquisition of grammatical rules is guided by the principles of the development of a(n) innate _________________ capacity.
universal grammar
LAD
stimuli
reinforcement
Universal grammar means that ....
all children can learn grammar.
linguistic rules manifest themselves without being taught.
is an innate ability.
linguistic rules are similar across languages.
In Linguistics, the aspect that focuses on the structure of a language:
pragmatics & phonology
morphology & phonology
semantics & syntax
morphology & syntax
In the FLA process of language acquisition, this problem is an example of _____________ in children
universal grammar
overgeneralization
cooeing
babbling
LAD means...
Language Acquired Dimension
Language Acquisition Devised
Language Acquisition Device
Linguistic Acquisition Devise
What is not an example of a TELEGRAPHIC formations in FLA
mommy milk
ba ba ba ba ba ba
cat go
Up dad
The Telegraphic speech (2 years +) in FLA are
normal developed speech
one-word phrases
baby babbles
multi word formations that lack in function
An author that related cognitive development as an important factor for language development was:
Jean Piaget
Noam Chomski
BF Skinner
Stephen Krasken
The work for which Saussure came to be known?
A Study in General Linguistics
A Chapter in General Linguistics
A Course in General Linguistics
A Course in General Languages
According to Saussure, meanings of words are ?
Different
Relational
Opposed
Contextual
Lexicon is
A branch of Linguistics
the list of the words of any language
None of them
What are words?
Something that is arbitrary
pairing of sound and meaning
All of the above
What are morphemes?
Suffixes
Small units of words
the study of words structures
Free morphemes are
Morphemes that cannot stand alone as a word, and must be attached to a free morpheme
Words or morphemes that keep the same form every time used and are unchangeable, including conjunctions
Words that are made up of only one morpheme and can stand alone as an English word
A linguists` long-term goal is
to study the differences between different countries
to find out what all languages have in common
to recognize the grammatical structures
linguistic competence refers to
one's unconscious linguistic knowledge
the basic linguistic knowledge used in real-life situations
one's ability to produce grammatical language
one's ability to explain how language works
The tendency to replace exceptions to grammatical patterns/rules with forms that fit the more general pattern is known as
regularization
normalization
coordination
systematization
Linguistics is a science because...
it makes use of every day language
makes use of technical vocabulary
The teacher should not permit the use of the native language as this would hamper the development of English.
True
False
According to Chomski's, children's acquisition of grammatical rules is guided by the principles of the development of a(n) innate _________________ capacity.
universal grammar
LAD
stimuli
reinforcement
A linguists` long-term goal is
to study the differences between different countries
to find out what all languages have in common
to recognize the grammatical structures
microlinguistics, except
syntax
morphology
pragmatics
semantics
What is neurolinguistics?
Is the study of how language is represented in the brain.
Is the language of neurons.
A and B are correct.
