The study of the smallest units of speech that make one word different from another word is:
phonetics
dialect
approximant
lexicon
The identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonations and stresses, or implied context is
morphology
glides
nasals
fricatives
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language is:
syntax
phonology
linguistics
liquids
The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning is:
semantics
phonemes
The study of how language is affected by the situation in which it is used, of how language is used to get things or perform actions, and of how words can express things that are different from what they appear to mean is:
pragmatics
socialism
The study of how language is used by different groups in society is:
sociolinguistics
Standard English
Dialect
Grammar
The process by which messages or information is sent from one place or person to another, or the message itself is:
communication
morhphology
All the words used in a particular language or subject, or a dictionary are:
vowels
consonants
Which of the following describe descriptive grammar?
a set of rules about language based on how it is actually used
there is no right or wrong language
a set of rules based on how people think language should be used
Which of the following describe prescriptive grammar?
Which of the following describe Standard English
Refers to whatever form of the English language is accepted as a national norm in any English-speaking country.
It encompasses grammar, vocabulary and spelling.
abbreviated as SE
a form of a language that is spoken in a particular part of a country or by a particular group of people and that contains some words, grammar, or pronunciations (= the ways in which words are said) that are different from the forms used in other parts or by other groups
This definition matches which of the following terms?
slides
Which of the following are vowels?
a
b
c
e
i
p
Which of the following are consonants?
m
d
o
The sounds /w/, /l/, and /r/ are examples of approximants in English.
English has two liquid phonemes, one lateral, /l/ and one rhotic, /ɹ/, exemplified in the words led and red.
Glide consonants, also known as semivowels /j/ /w/. Sounds with little or no obstruction to the airstream in the mouth.
The /s/ in "said" and the /z/ in "zoo" are fricatives.
P is an unvoiced sound (no vibration of the vocal cords) and B is a voiced sound (vocal cords vibrate).
Linguistics is the study of the way animals move and work together.
