Linguistics revision quizz

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This quizz will hopefully help you during your revision period.
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

Frage 1

Frage
What is language?
Antworten
  • Correctly spelt words and also knowing their etymology.
  • Systematic use of speech sounds, signs and written symbols to communicate among people.
  • Written language since it is one of the most important human inventions

Frage 2

Frage
Being a polyglot and being a linguist are the same thing.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 3

Frage
Linguistics is a systematic study of human language.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 4

Frage
Which of the following statements are true?
Antworten
  • Linguistics overlaps sciences and humanities
  • Animal communication is as complex as human communication.
  • There's 100 endangered languages.

Frage 5

Frage
If an innovation continues to spread and becomes a regular feature of the language, it is called...
Antworten
  • Zipf's law, since some words become more frequent.
  • comparative etymology.
  • Language change.

Frage 6

Frage
Define language death.
Antworten
  • The process of ''language transmission'' (passing a language from a generation to the next) stops.
  • A standard variant becomes so dominant that features found in rural areas are stigmatised.
  • A language switches from on writing system to another, which leads to texts being hard to read.

Frage 7

Frage
A phoneme is...
Antworten
  • It's the study of the systematic organisation sounds within a given language.
  • the study of sounds and how they are produced
  • A basic unit of sound that's able to distinguish one word from the other.
  • a way to refer to two vowels following one another

Frage 8

Frage
Which of the following statements is true?
Antworten
  • Z and V are voiced. S and F are voiceless
  • S and F are bilabial, Z and V are voiced
  • S and Z are uvular, V is voiceless and F is a glottal stop
  • S is an open vowel, Z is interdental, V and F are palatal

Frage 9

Frage
Which of the following sounds is an uvular?
Antworten
  • The French R
  • The Spanish R
  • The Y in yellow.
  • The German Ü
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