Linguistics Vocabulary Quiz

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ASPD Solorio Linguistics Vocabulary Quiz
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Question 1

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Which of the following is the study of language as a whole?
Answer
  • Phonemics
  • Semantics
  • Linguistics
  • Pragmatics

Question 2

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Phonemics, or phonology, is the study of ______________.
Answer
  • symbols
  • smallest unit of sound
  • cell phones
  • grammar

Question 3

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Morphology is the study of how words change and came to be what they currently are.
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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Semantics studies the grammatical rules to form sentences.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 5

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In English, the verb follows the noun. For example 'he ran'. Which of the following is responsible for us not writing 'ran he'?
Answer
  • Sentence
  • Syntax
  • Phonics
  • Morpheme

Question 6

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The following statement can be interpreted in two ways: Flying planes can be dangerous. This is an example of pragmatics.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 7

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Which of the following would be categorized as a morpheme?
Answer
  • chicken
  • dog
  • hens
  • cats

Question 8

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All of the following are vowels except:
Answer
  • A
  • E
  • L
  • O

Question 9

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Which of the following words begins with a liquid?
Answer
  • bed
  • mom
  • love
  • go

Question 10

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Which of the following words begins with a fricative?
Answer
  • again
  • hello
  • phone
  • class

Question 11

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Which of the following words begins and ends with a consonant?
Answer
  • car
  • apple
  • sea
  • ear

Question 12

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There are more nasals in English than there are in French.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 13

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The 'o' sound in 'cow' is an example of which of the following:
Answer
  • Fricative
  • Nasal
  • Glide
  • Liquic

Question 14

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The ending of the word 'stop' is an example of a fricative.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 15

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The ending of the word 'stop' is an example of a ______________.
Answer
  • fricative
  • stop
  • nasal
  • liquid

Question 16

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There are variants to the Standard English used in the United States and these variants are known as dialect.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 17

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In linguistics, register refers to the cost of producing sounds when forming words.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 18

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Syntax includes all of the following except:
Answer
  • Generative grammar
  • Categorical grammar
  • Dependency grammar
  • Middle grammar

Question 19

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AAVE is a ________.
Answer
  • Dialect
  • Phoneme
  • Pragmatics
  • Language

Question 20

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The main way to distinguish between voiced and voiceless is by______
Answer
  • seeing how loud you are speaking.
  • noting the vibrations of lack there of on your throat (vocal cords).
  • noticing if people can hear you well from a reasonable distance.
  • hearing yourself, if you can hear yourself well it is voiced,
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