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Pregunta 1
Pregunta
What is language?
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Correctly spelt words and also knowing their etymology.
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Systematic use of speech sounds, signs and written symbols to communicate among people.
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Written language since it is one of the most important human inventions
Pregunta 2
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Being a polyglot and being a linguist are the same thing.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 3
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Linguistics is a systematic study of human language.
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- True
- False
Pregunta 4
Pregunta
Which of the following statements are true?
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Linguistics overlaps sciences and humanities
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Animal communication is as complex as human communication.
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There's 100 endangered languages.
Pregunta 5
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If an innovation continues to spread and becomes a regular feature of the language, it is called...
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Zipf's law, since some words become more frequent.
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comparative etymology.
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Language change.
Pregunta 6
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Define language death.
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The process of ''language transmission'' (passing a language from a generation to the next) stops.
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A standard variant becomes so dominant that features found in rural areas are stigmatised.
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A language switches from on writing system to another, which leads to texts being hard to read.
Pregunta 7
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A phoneme is...
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It's the study of the systematic organisation sounds within a given language.
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the study of sounds and how they are produced
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A basic unit of sound that's able to distinguish one word from the other.
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a way to refer to two vowels following one another
Pregunta 8
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Which of the following statements is true?
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Z and V are voiced. S and F are voiceless
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S and F are bilabial, Z and V are voiced
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S and Z are uvular, V is voiceless and F is a glottal stop
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S is an open vowel, Z is interdental, V and F are palatal
Pregunta 9
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Which of the following sounds is an uvular?
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The French R
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The Spanish R
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The Y in yellow.
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The German Ü
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