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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which one is considered as linguistic communication?
Raising of eyebrows
Posting status in English on your Facebook
Moving hands in different gestures
Clenching of fists
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which is not true about the language?
Many animals have languages much like human languages.
Language is a linguistic code.
The speaker and the listener have to share the same linguistic code in order to understand each other.
We simply don't know how language originated.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is symptomatic sign?
Traffic lights
Icons
Grimacing face
Pictographs
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which is correct about the origin of language?
We simply don't know how language originated.
Some believed that language is the present from gods.
The primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds.
All answers are correct.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is "onomatopoeia"?
Language that echoed natural sounds.
It consists of sounds and meaning.
The pictures that the primitive people painted on the cave wall.
Human speech sounds
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which is not true about language?
Correct spelling preserves a language.
The same words in the same order don't always mean the same thing.
All language reflect social and cultural aspects of a society.
It's easier to learn English if you are in the environment where English is used all the time.
- 7. Multiple Choice
There is no connection between form and meaning. How can we call it.
Displacement
Discreteness
Arbitrariness
Productivity
- 8. Multiple Choice
The elements of language are composed of, or can be broken into, distinct smaller linguistic units. What is it?
Displacement
Duality
Productivity
Discreteness
- 9. Multiple Choice
We acquire a language in a culture with other speakers and not from parental genes?
Arbitrariness
Duality
Cultural transmission
Productivity
- 10. Multiple Choice
A French tourist said to you "Il pleut dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville" and you don't understand. It means that you don't have a __________________.
linguistic performance
linguistic competence
linguistic knowledge
both linguistic competence and linguistic knowledge are correct.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is the study of the production and perception of speech sounds
phonology
morphology
phonetics
syntax
- 12. Multiple Choice
The study of the sound patterns of language is called ______________.
articulation
phonetics
pragmatics
phonology
- 13. Multiple Choice
In actual speech, these [t] sounds are all different.
•[th] in tar, [t] in star and [D] in the word water.
True
False
- 14. Multiple Choice
________________ is the study of word formation and structure.
Phonology
Syntax
Morphology
Semantics
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which sentence is ungrammatical?
I will pick that package up at eight o’clock.
At eight o’clock, I will pick up the package.
I will picks the package up at eight o’clock.
- 16. Multiple Choice
______________is the study of meaning.
Semantics
Pragmatics
Syntax
Phonetics
- 17. Multiple Choice
What is pragmatics?
a study of a word in our mind
a study of meaning in context in which a word or a sentence is used.
a study of phrases and sentences
- 18. Multiple Choice
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Anthropological linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Neurolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
- 19. Multiple Choice
Why is lingustics worth studying?
to help people who have problems with using language
the more effective the desired communication is likely to be
to help learners learn another language effectively
All of the above
- 20. Multiple Choice
If you are studying rules of syntax, are you studying linguistic competence or linguistic performance
Linguistic competence
Linguistic performance
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