Linguistics Vocabulary Quiz

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Linguistics Vocabulary Terms
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Questão 1

Questão
Linguistics is the study of _____________?
Responda
  • Language
  • Speaking
  • Writing
  • Communicating

Questão 2

Questão
How many different consonants are in the words "consonant"?
Responda
  • Three
  • Four
  • Five
  • Six

Questão 3

Questão
When somebody says, "You're just arguing semantics!" what are they really saying?
Responda
  • Your argument is irrelevant.
  • You are contradicting yourself.
  • You are arguing word meanings.
  • You are arguing word pronunciations.

Questão 4

Questão
The word "bunt" is an example of baseball _____________.
Responda
  • Lexicon
  • Register
  • Dialect
  • Fricatives

Questão 5

Questão
How many bound morphemes are in the word "fearlessly"?
Responda
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
  • Four

Questão 6

Questão
If the word order of a sentence is confusing, the sentence has a problem with ____________.
Responda
  • Prescriptive grammar
  • Stops
  • Semantics
  • Syntax

Questão 7

Questão
The first and last sounds in "five" are examples of _______________.
Responda
  • Fricatives
  • Affricatives
  • Nasals
  • Glides

Questão 8

Questão
The sentence "The television drank my water" has a problem with ______________?
Responda
  • Semantics
  • Phonology
  • Descriptive grammar
  • Pragmatics

Questão 9

Questão
Aside from abbreviations, acronyms, and some controversial words such as "psst," almost all words in Standard English have at least one vowel.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

Questão
A dialect is the exact same thing as an accent.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 11

Questão
True or False: Inaudible movements of the mouth can not be considered a form of communication.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 12

Questão
Standard English applies to a common norm of grammar, vocabulary, and spelling.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 13

Questão
The letter P is a voiced consonant.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 14

Questão
AAVE is commonly known as Ebonics outside of the academic community.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 15

Questão
The first and the last sounds in "cat" are examples of stops.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 16

Questão
Which of the sounds in the phrase "my name" are nasals?
Responda
  • M in my
  • Y in my
  • N in name
  • A in name

Questão 17

Questão
Which words with a voiceless affricative?
Responda
  • Cheap
  • Jeep
  • Church
  • Jog

Questão 18

Questão
Which words begin with glides?
Responda
  • Wet
  • Dry
  • Me
  • You

Questão 19

Questão
Which of the following are considered rules of prescriptive grammar?
Responda
  • You must not begin a sentence with "Because".
  • You must not use first person in a formal essay.
  • You must not split an infinitive.
  • You must not end a sentence with a preposition.

Questão 20

Questão
Which words have 4 or more phonemes?
Responda
  • Blanket
  • Chair
  • Pizza
  • Box

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