number of sentences
C. a property claimed to be characteristic of all languages D. animals‘ capacity to learn more than one human language
8. The major development in linguistics before 20th century was ___ grammar. (D) A. speculative B. structural C. transformational-generative D. traditional 9. ―Competence‖ refers to __B__. A. knowledge of meaning of words and sentences
B. a speaker‘s unconscious knowledge about his/her language
C. the actual use of a speaker‘s unconscious knowledge about his/her language D. the laws that pertain to all languages throughout the world
10. __A__ refers to unintentionally deviation from the adult grammar of a native speaker.
A. An error B. A mistake C. A slip of the tongue D. Fossilization
1. __C__ is a multiword construction that is a semantic unit whose meaning cannot be deduced from the meanings of its constituents.
A. semantic component B. collocation C. idiom D. reference 2. The distinction between langue and parole is similar to that between __B__. A. prescriptive and descriptive B. competence and performance C. speech and writing D. synchronic and diachronic 3. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives can be classified as __A__. A. open class words B. grammatical words C. closed class words D. function words
4. What is the meaning relationship between the two words ―furniture/bed‖? __B__ A. polysemy B. hyponymy C. homonymy D. antonymy
5. All of the following are meaningful except for ________. (D) A. morpheme B. allomorph C. lexeme D. phoneme
6. Which of the following distinctive features can be used to separate [t] and [d]? (C) A. alveolar B. stop C. voiced D. fricatives
7. In structural grammar, distributional analysis is used to define __D__, which are taken as the basic building blocks.
A. morphemes B. words C. syllable D. phonemes 8. ―Speech Act Theory‖ was proposed by __D__ in 1962.
A. Saussure B. Chomsky C. Jane Austin D. John Austin 9. The major new development in linguistics in 20th century was __D__ grammar. A. speculative B. traditional C. structural D. transformational-generative 10. Two words that are differentiated by one phoneme, such as ―lead‖ and ―lid‖, are called _______. (B)
A. code B. minimal pair C. distinctive feature D. argument
1. The most recognizable difference between American English and British English are in __D__ and vocabulary.
A. structure B. grammar C. usage D. pronunciation 2. The study of how we do things with utterance is the study of __C__, the nature of which is determined by context.
A. context B. pragmatics C. speech act D. semantics
3. A(n) __A__ is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression that replaces a taboo word or serves to avoid more direct wording that might be harsh, unpleasantly direct, or offensive, e.g. ―pass away‖ for ―die‖. A. euphemisms B. delete C. coinage D. taboo
4. In many societies of the world, we find a large number of people who speak more than one language. As a characteristic of societies, __B__ inevitably results from the coming into contact of people with different cultures and different languages. A. transfer B. bilingualism C. diglossia D. inter-language 5. Pragmatics differs from traditional semantics in that it studies meaning not in
isolation, but in __D__.
A. relationship B. dependence C. sentence D. context 6. ________ studies the linguistic meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. (A) A. Semantics B. Morphology C. pragmatics D. syntax
7. _____ is different from the others according to places of articulation? (D) A. [p] B. [b] C. [m] D. [n]
8. __A__ is defined as any regionally or socially definable human group identified by shared linguistic system.
A. Speech community B. A race C. A society D. A country 9. __A__ invasions established three major groups in England: Saxons, Angles and Jutes.
A. Germanic B. Norman C. French D. Roman 10. There are ________ morphemes in the word ?friendships‘. (B) A. two B. three C. four D. five
1. __C__ is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, i.e. a word or group of words, which serves as a definable ―center‖ or ―head‖.
A. Exocentric construction B. Coordination C. Endocentric construction D. Collocation
2. Of the following linguists, __A__ should not be grouped into American school. A. Firth B. Sapir C. Bloomfield D. Boas
3. When people learn a foreign language for external goals such as passing exams, financial rewards or furthering a career, we say they learn a foreign language with a (n) __D__. A. intrinsic motivation B. resultative motivation C. integrative motivation D. instrumental motivation
4. What is the sense relation in the sentence ―My unmarried sister is married to a
bachelor.‖ __B__ A. Presuppose B. Contradiction C. Entailment D. Inconsistent 5. ---TRUTH.
---Do not say what you believe to be false.
---Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. Those can be defined as the features of __B__ of Gricean maxims. A. maxim of quantity B. maxim of quality C. maxim of relation D. maxim of manner
6. __C__ caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords refers to the use of pitch in language to distinguish words.
A. Intonation B. Stress C. Tone D. Aspiration
7. ―Autumn‖ and ―fall‖ are used respectively in Britain and America, but refer to the same thing. The words are __B__ synonyms. A. collocational B. dialectal C. complete D. stylistic
8. Which of the following country are those loanwords ―garage, champion, beauty, parliament‖ borrowed from __D__.
A. Latin B. Dutch C. German D. French
9. In the sentence ―The angry man went furiously through the rooms.‖ The first division into immediate constitute should be between __B__. A. angry and man B. man and went C. furiously and through D. The and angry 10. __C__ refers to the effect of the utterance. A. Illocutionary act B. Locutionary act C. Perlocutionary act D. Speech act
1. The consonant sound /p/ is described as __A__. A. voiceless bilabial stop B. voiceless alveolar stop
C. voiced bilabial stop D. voiced alveolar stop 2. A new word created by cutting the final part or cutting the initial part is referred to as __C__. A. acronym B. borrowing C. clipping D. blending
3. According to the author our brain is divided into two hemispheres. Language functions are mainly located in __C__.
A. right hemispheres B. front hemispheres C. left hemispheres D. back hemispheres 4. ―A language pattern which occurs in all known language‖ is called __C__. A. a phonemic representation B. a phonetic representation C. a language universal D. language change 5. In the sentence-------―The child found the puppy‖, __C__ is not a constituent. A. The child B. found the puppy C. found the D. the puppy
6. __D__ is the abstract syntactic representation of a sentence, namely, the underlying level of structural organization which specifies all the factors governing the way the sentence should be interpreted.
A. surface structure B. syntactic ambiguity C. syntactic component D. deep structure
7. __C__ is the learner‘s process of adapting to the culture and value system of the target language community.
A. Acquisition B. Assimilation C. Acculturation D. Articulation 8. What is the relationship between the two words ―flower / rose‖? __C__ A. Homonymy B. Antonymy C. hyponymy D. Polysemy 9. The function of the sentence ―How are you?‖ __D__ A. directive B. informative C. performative D. phatic
