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World Languages, English, Social Studies
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Schools of Linguistics
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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.
According to Saussure, sign is the union of...
Sign & signature
Signature & signifier
Signifier & signifie
Signifiant & signifie
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Viewing a particular state of a language at some given point in time is known as...Synchronic approachSemantic approachDiachronic approachFunctional approach
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Grimm's Law concerns with..Similarities between languagestranslation methodDifferences between PIE and Germanic language groupDifferences between Proto Indo-European and Greek language
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Viewing the historical development of a language and looking into the language with all its features change are the characteristics of..Semantic approachDiachronic approachFunctional approachSynchronic approach
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Two primary theories that hugely influenced the views on Linguistics/language studies in 19th Century were...Mechanistic Physics & GeographyBiology & Mechanistic PhysicsAstronomy & AnthropologyChemistry & Physics
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The ways that linguistic units can be combined into longer constructions are best to define..syntagmatic relationsparadigmatic relationslexical relationscausal relations
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The relationships between elements that can substitute each other in the same position of linguistic structure are called..syntactic relationssyntagmatic relationskinship relationsparadigmatic relations
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The physical data of the language that can be tangibly observed, according to Saussure, called..languelanguageparolecreole
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The general system that governs the language and, therefore, intangible is Saussure's concept of..creolelangueparolelanguage
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The highest common factor of the phonemes whose opposition is neutralized, as coined by Trubetzkoy, called..archiphonemeallophonephonemicequipollent
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A linguistic response takes place after the presence of sensible stimuli surrounding the speaker is one of the ideas proposed by..BloomfieldSaussureBoasMathesius
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.An utterance uttered without prior stimuli presented to the speaker, according to Behaviourist, is called..speechdisplaced speechindirect speechdirect speech
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A linguistic school founded on the idea that there was no ideal type of language and thus human languages are of great diversity is..DescriptivistBehaviouristStructuralistJunggrammatiker
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.As part of Prague Linguist, Roman Jakobson developed a theory called..privativelinguistic relativitylinguistic universalphonological universals
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The understanding of the language element behind the sign in the form of the speaker's concept or called meaning is ...signifiantparolesignifielangue
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.According to Saussure, signifiant means..mental conceptspeech-soundlanguesyntagmatic relations
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following linguists belong to the Prague school?Bloomfield & BoasJakobson & Andre martinetSaussure & JakobsonBloomfield & Saussure
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Wave' theory in language studies was initially proposed by..SchleicherMartinetSchmidtJakobson
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Stammbaum theory considers that language is..an entity that expands across borderGodly giftbiological entitynot related each other
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The subclassification of inflecting languages according to August Schlegel is..Synthetic and AnalyticSynchronic and DiachronicSignifier and SignifiedLangue and Parole