Which of the following is the study of language as a whole?
Phonemics
Semantics
Linguistics
Pragmatics
Phonemics, or phonology, is the study of ______________.
symbols
smallest unit of sound
cell phones
grammar
Morphology is the study of how words change and came to be what they currently are.
Semantics studies the grammatical rules to form sentences.
In English, the verb follows the noun. For example 'he ran'. Which of the following is responsible for us not writing 'ran he'?
Sentence
Syntax
Phonics
Morpheme
The following statement can be interpreted in two ways:
Flying planes can be dangerous.
This is an example of pragmatics.
Which of the following would be categorized as a morpheme?
chicken
dog
hens
cats
All of the following are vowels except:
A
E
L
O
Which of the following words begins with a liquid?
bed
mom
love
go
Which of the following words begins with a fricative?
again
hello
phone
class
Which of the following words begins and ends with a consonant?
car
apple
sea
ear
There are more nasals in English than there are in French.
The 'o' sound in 'cow' is an example of which of the following:
Fricative
Nasal
Glide
Liquic
The ending of the word 'stop' is an example of a fricative.
The ending of the word 'stop' is an example of a ______________.
fricative
stop
nasal
liquid
There are variants to the Standard English used in the United States and these variants are known as dialect.
In linguistics, register refers to the cost of producing sounds when forming words.
Syntax includes all of the following except:
Generative grammar
Categorical grammar
Dependency grammar
Middle grammar
AAVE is a ________.
Dialect
Phoneme
Language
The main way to distinguish between voiced and voiceless is by______
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,
