language. This is known as the notion of ____. (B) A. linguistic relativism B. linguistic determinism C. linguistic nativism D. linguistic behaviorism
9. According to Searle, those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action are called __C__. A. expressives B. directives C. commisives D. declaratives 10. There are ________ morphemes in the word ?usefulness‘. (B) A. two B. three C. four D. five
1. Linguistics is the scientific study of __C__. A. a particular language B. the English language
C. human language in general D. the system of a particular language 2. __A__ is the language that a learner constructs at a given stage of SLA. A. Interlanguage B. Ideology C. Dialect D. Interference
3. Phonological rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called __ B__ rule. A. Deletion B. Sequential C. suprasegmental D. Assimilation
4. ―There is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to‖. This is the __B__ view concerning the study of meaning. A. naming theory B. conceptualist C. contextualist D. behaviorist
5. English consonants can be classified into stops, fricatives, nasals, etc. , in terms of __A__. A. manner of articulation B. openness of mouth C. place of articulation D. voicing
6. According to Chomsky, __A__ is the ideal user‘s internalized knowledge of his language.
A. competence B. parole C. performance D. langue 7. __A__ is not a suprasegmental feature. A. Aspiration B. Intonation C. Stress D. Tone
8. __A__ is a phenomenon that L2 learners subconsciously use their L1language in their learning process.
A. Language transfer B. Blending C. Interference D. Cooperative 9. __C__ are affixes added to an existing form to create a new word, e.g. in-,-er. A. inflectional morpheme B. free morpheme C. derivational morpheme D. root 10. Writing is the secondary language form based on __B__. A. sound B. speech C. gesture D. sign
1. __C__ covers the study of language use in relation to context, and in particular the study of linguistic communication.
A. Semantics B. Sociolinguistics C. Pragmatics D. Linguistics
2. Morphemes that represent ―tense‖, ―number‖, ―gender‖, ―case‖ and so on are called __A__ morphemes. A. inflectional B. free C. bound D. derivational 3. Which of the following is not a compound word? __C__ A. clearway B. rainbow C. scarcity D. without
4. The fact that ability to speak a language is transmitted from generation to generation by process of learning, and not genetically is referred to as __A__. A. culture transmission B. performance
C. competence D. acquisition
5. __C__ is the language of Angles, Saxons and Jutes who invaded Britain after AD 450.
A. Old Norse B. Celtic C. Old English D. Middle English 6. A group of two or more consonants together in a syllable is called a (n) __C__. A. arresting cluster B. releasing cluster C. consonant cluster D. syllable 7. The semantic features of the word ―woman‖ can be expressed as __C__. A. +ANIMATE, -- HUMAN, +ADULT, +MALE B. + ANIMATE, + HUMAN, -- ADULT, + MALE C. + ANIMATE, + HUMAN, + ADULT, -- MALE D. + ANIMATE, -- HUMAN, -- ADULT, -- MALE
8. Two words that are ―opposite‖ in meaning are called_________. (C) A. synonyms B. homonyms C. antonyms D. homophones
9. __A__ is the study of the relationship between brain and language, including research into how the structure of the brain influences language learning. A. Neurolinguistics B. Psyhcholingistics C. Applied Linguistics D. Sociolinguistics
10. Modern synchronic linguistics traditionally dates from the __B__ of Swiss scholar Ferdinand de Saussure.
A. Syntactic structure B. Cours de Linguitique General C. De Lingua Latina D. Language and Mind
1. According to the strong version of the __A__ hypothesis, language determines speakers‘ perceptions and patterns their way of life. A. Sapir Whorf B. input C. Grim D. Innateness 2. Which of the following is true? __D__ A. In the history of any language the writing system always came into being before the spoken form. B. A compound is the combination of only two words.
C. The division of English into old English, Middle English, and Modern English is nonconventional and not arbitrary.
D. If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikely to learn a language successfully later on.
3. Which of the following statements is not true? __D__ A. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. B. Language is human specific
C. Language is relatively stable and systematic while parole is subject to personal and situational constraints D. The first language was invented by Adam, the first man. 4. ―Can I borrow your bike?‖ ________ ―You have a bike‖. (D) A. is synonymous with B. is inconsistent with C. entails D. presupposes 5. ―Your money or your life?‖ is an example of __C__. A. representative B. expressive C. directives D. commissives
6. Which of the following distinctive features can be used to separate [p] and [b]? _D_ A. stop B. fricatives C. bilabial D. voiced
7. There are ________ morphemes in the word ―speechlessness‖. (B) A. two B. three C. four D. five 8. ?boy‘ and ?girl‘ are a pair of ________ opposites. (C) A. gradable B. relational C. complementary D. converse
9. Of all the speech organ, the ________ is /are the most flexible. (C) A. mouth B. lips C. tongue D. vocal cords
10. According to Chomsky, the child is born with a built – in set of rules, which have
the specific function of enabling her to construct the grammar of her mother tongue. This view is to be seen as __C__. A. Input hypothesis B. X-theory
C. Language acquisition device D. Universal grammar
1. ―Old‖ and ―Young‖ are a pair of __D__ opposites. A. complementary B. relational
C. converse D. gradable 2. Systemic-Functional Grammar, one of the most influential linguistic theories in the 20th century, is put forward by __B__. A. Chomsky B. Halliday C. Firth D. Malinowski
3. Vowels that are produced between the positions for a front and back vowel are called __D__ vowel. A. back B. front C. unrounded D. central
4. From Halliday‘s viewpoint, language is a form of realization of __D__ rather than a form of realization of______.
A. knowing, doing B. thinking, knowing C. doing, thinking D. doing, knowing
5. The right description of componential analysis for the word ?man‘ is_____. (C) A. +human, +adult, - male B. +human, - adult, - male C. +human, +adult, + male D. +human, - adult, + male
6.__C__studies the physical properties of speech sound, as transmitted between mouth and ear.
A. Articulatory phonetics B. Physiological phonetics C Acoustic phonetics D. Auditory phonetics 7. Creativity refers to __B__. A. the unconscious knowledge that language users have in their minds
B. the capacity of language users to produce and understand an indefinitely large
