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Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics
Unit 1
1. Syntax is the study of ____. (TEM 8, 2005)
A. language functions
B. sentence structures
C. textual organization
D. word formation
2. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language? (TEM 8, 2005)
A. Arbitrariness
B. Productivity
C. Cultural transmission
D. Finiteness
3. The distinction between parole and langue is made by ____. (TEM 8, 2006)
A. Halliday
B. Chomsky
C. Bloomfield
D. Saussure
4. The description of a language at some point in history is called a ____ study.
A. prescriptive
B. synchronic
C. descriptive
D. diachronic
5. ____ is the study of language in relation to the mind.
A. Historical linguistics
B. Psycholinguistics
C. Semantics
D. Morphology
6. Which of the following theories is NOT about the origin of language? ____
A. Divine-origin theory
B. Speech act theory
C. Invention theory
D. Evolution theory
7. The function of the sentence “A nice day, isn’t it?” is ____.
A. directive
B. informative
C. phatic
D. emotive
8. ____ is regarded as “father of modern linguistics”.
A. Halliday
B. Whorf
C. Saussure
D. Chomsky
9. The study which applies the findings of linguistics to teaching English as a foreign language is often referred to as ____.
A. psycholinguistics
B. applied linguistics
C. pragmatics
D. sociolinguistics
Answers:
1-5: BDDBB 6-9: BCCB
Unit 2
1. ____ refers to the study of the internal structure of words and the rules of word formation. (TEM 8, 2007)
A. Phonology
B. Morphology
C. Semantics
D. Sociolinguistics
2. Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language? ___(TEM 8, 2008)
A. Arbitrariness
B. Displacement
C. Duality
D. Diachronicity
3. The study of the mental processes of language comprehension and production is ____ (TEM 8, 2009)
A. corpus linguistics
B. sociolinguistics
C. theoretical linguistics
D. psycholinguistics
4. ____ is the knowledge of the rules of an ideal spe aker’s language.
A. Performance
B. Capacity
C. Ability
D. Competence
5. Which of the following is NOT a major branch of linguistics? ____
A. Phonetics
B. Pragmatics
C. Speech
D. Sociolinguistics
6. The fact that different languages have different words for the same object is a good illustration of the ____ feature of language.
A. duality
B. displacement
C. arbitrariness
D. productivity
7. In traffic lights, red can only mean stop. But in human languages, limited phonemes can form numerous words which can form unlimited sentences. This is a good illustration of the ____ feature of language.
A. duality
B. displacement
C. arbitrariness
D. cultural transmission
8. In linguistics, the study of meaning is called ____.