Question 1
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Which of the following is the study of language as a whole?
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Phonemics
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Semantics
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Linguistics
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Pragmatics
Question 2
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Phonemics, or phonology, is the study of ______________.
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symbols
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smallest unit of sound
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cell phones
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grammar
Question 3
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Morphology is the study of how words change and came to be what they currently are.
Question 4
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Semantics studies the grammatical rules to form sentences.
Question 5
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In English, the verb follows the noun. For example 'he ran'. Which of the following is responsible for us not writing 'ran he'?
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Sentence
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Syntax
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Phonics
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Morpheme
Question 6
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The following statement can be interpreted in two ways:
Flying planes can be dangerous.
This is an example of pragmatics.
Question 7
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Which of the following would be categorized as a morpheme?
Question 8
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All of the following are vowels except:
Question 9
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Which of the following words begins with a liquid?
Question 10
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Which of the following words begins with a fricative?
Question 11
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Which of the following words begins and ends with a consonant?
Question 12
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There are more nasals in English than there are in French.
Question 13
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The 'o' sound in 'cow' is an example of which of the following:
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Fricative
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Nasal
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Glide
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Liquic
Question 14
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The ending of the word 'stop' is an example of a fricative.
Question 15
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The ending of the word 'stop' is an example of a ______________.
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fricative
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stop
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nasal
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liquid
Question 16
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There are variants to the Standard English used in the United States and these variants are known as dialect.
Question 17
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In linguistics, register refers to the cost of producing sounds when forming words.
Question 18
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Syntax includes all of the following except:
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Generative grammar
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Categorical grammar
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Dependency grammar
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Middle grammar
Question 19
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AAVE is a ________.
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Dialect
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Phoneme
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Pragmatics
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Language
Question 20
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The main way to distinguish between voiced and voiceless is by______
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seeing how loud you are speaking.
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noting the vibrations of lack there of on your throat (vocal cords).
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noticing if people can hear you well from a reasonable distance.
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hearing yourself, if you can hear yourself well it is voiced,