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Linguistics revision quizz
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1What is language?
- ACorrectly spelt words and also knowing their etymology.
- BSystematic use of speech sounds, signs and written symbols to communicate among people.
- CWritten language since it is one of the most important human inventions
2Being a polyglot and being a linguist are the same thing.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3Linguistics is a systematic study of human language.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4Which of the following statements are true?
- ALinguistics overlaps sciences and humanities
- BAnimal communication is as complex as human communication.
- CThere's 100 endangered languages.
5If an innovation continues to spread and becomes a regular feature of the language, it is called...
- AZipf's law, since some words become more frequent.
- Bcomparative etymology.
- CLanguage change.
6Define language death.
- AThe process of ''language transmission'' (passing a language from a generation to the next) stops.
- BA standard variant becomes so dominant that features found in rural areas are stigmatised.
- CA language switches from on writing system to another, which leads to texts being hard to read.
7A phoneme is...
- AIt's the study of the systematic organisation sounds within a given language.
- Bthe study of sounds and how they are produced
- CA basic unit of sound that's able to distinguish one word from the other.
- Da way to refer to two vowels following one another
8Which of the following statements is true?
- AZ and V are voiced. S and F are voiceless
- BS and F are bilabial, Z and V are voiced
- CS and Z are uvular, V is voiceless and F is a glottal stop
- DS is an open vowel, Z is interdental, V and F are palatal
9Which of the following sounds is an uvular?
- AThe French R
- BThe Spanish R
- CThe Y in yellow.
- DThe German Ü
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