Progress test 1 + 2

Derivational morphemes can be both prefixes and suffixes, so they can come at the start or end of....? A. A word. B. Multiple words. C. Paragraph

A

How many consonant letters are there in the language of English? A. 21 B. 22 C. 23 D. 24

A

In the study of language, IPA stands for A. International Phonetic Alphabet. B. India Pale Ales C. Internet Protocol Address D. Institute for Public Accuracy

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Freedom / Liberty A. Synonymy B. Antonymy C. Hyponymy

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What is the correct diphthong for the word "beard"? A. /eɪ/ B. /aʊ/ C. /ɪə/ D. /aɪ/

C

In the sentence "The fat man ate food," which part is the noun phrase? A. Man B. Ate C. The fat man D. Ate food

C

Choose the two words that begin and end with fricatives. A. Hash. B. Death. C. Sick. D. That.

A

"It is believed that language is a God-given gift to human species". Which of the following origins of language does the statement mention? A. The Divine Source. B. The Natural Sound Source. C. The Social Interaction Source. D. The Physical Adaptation Source.

A

"One belief is that human languages originated from these onomatopoeic words that mimic the sounds of entities or actions to which they refer". Which of the following theories does the statement mention? A. The "Bow-Wow" Theory. B. The "Yo-heave-ho" Theory. C. The "Pooh-pooh" Theory.

A

"The early humans tried to imitate the sounds and then used them to refer to those objects even when they were not present." Which of the following theories does the statement mention? A. The "Bow-Wow" Theory. B. The "Yo-heave-ho" Theory. C. The "Pooh-pooh" Theory. D. The Yalo Theory.

A

23. Which one feature is NOT typical of caregiver speech?A. extra loudnessB. frequent questionsC. longer pausesD. repeated syllables

A

25. An example of a natural language acquisition is when children are able todiscover the important rules of a language.A. TrueB. False

A

29. Native language literacy assists students who are learning English.A. TrueB. False

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30. ............ is an old method which was originally used to teach dead languageswhich explains why it focuses mainly on the written form at the expense of the oralform.A. The grammar - translation methodB. The audiolingual methodC. The communicative approach

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34. Which word contains the fewest digraphs?A. shepherdB. philanthropistC. choreographerD. thatcher

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35. ......... is a writing system that relies predominantly on the representation of thesounds of words.A. Phonographic writingB. Syllabic writingC. Alphabetic writing

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5. Define PragmaticsA. a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which contextcontributes to meaning. It encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature,talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy, sociology,linguistics and anthropology.B. features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech. It is asimportant to teach learners .......... features as successful communication depends asmuch on intonation, stress and rhythm as on the correct pronunciation of sounds.C. Some definitions limit this to verbal communication that is not words. Bodylanguage, gestures, facial expressions, tone and pitch of voice are all examplesof...........

A

9. Choose one statement that contains a hedge.A. Correct me if I'm wrong, but he is from Canada.B. The earth moves around the sun.C. He knows I am wrong.D. Ask about the questions in chapter 5.

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A collocation is two or more words that A. often go together B. have similar meanings C. must be used together

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Aphasia is the inabilityA. to speak, write, or understand speech or writing because of damage to the brainB. to perceive facial emotions and moodC. to understand musicD. to communicate with others using gestures

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Choose one phrase that could NOT be generated by: NP → Art (Adj) N? A. ancient castles B. an old building C. a museum D. the new school

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Choose one thing a speaker usually knows about an expression in the tip of thetongue phenomenon.A. initial soundB. number of lettersC. number of syllablesD. part of speech

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Choose one word that belongs to a closed class. A. because B. break C. follow D. sad

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Choose the group of words that represents a minimal set. A. laugh life loaf B. big bag back C. fear free reef D. sip ship shop

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Choose the two phrases that would typically be pronounced with elision of part of a consonant cluster. A. she must be / me and you B. I have to / you can go C. we ask you / they want it D. they want it / I have to

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Inflectional morphemes don't change the words meaning or class, they just add more....? A. Grammatical information to the word. B. Information to the word. C. Strategical information to the word.

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It is what the writer intends to convey even though the text containsungrammatical forms.A. Interpreting DiscourseB. CoherenceC. CohesiveD. Speech events

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NP + VP = ? A. Clause or sentence B. PP C. NPV D. (D) (AP) N

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The .......... refers to the processible language the learners are exposed to whilelistening or reading (i.e. The receptive skills)A. inputB. output

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The study of the relationship between language and the brain is called ........A. NeurolinguisticsB. LinguisticsC. PsychophysicsD. Combinatorics

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What do we call symbols that are used for concepts such as "daytime"?A. ideogramsB. pictogramsC. logograms

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What is it called when two words, phrases or sentences have the same semantic meaning? A. synonym B. antonym C. hyponym D. homonym

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What is the maxim of manner?A. Speakers should be brief and orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity.B. Speakers should be as informative as is required, that they should give neither toolittle information nor too much.C. Speakers are assumed to be saying something that is relevant to what has been saidbefore.D. Speakers are expected to be sincere, to be saying something that they believecorresponds to reality.

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What is the most important aspect of L2 input?A. comprehensibleB. error-freeC. grammaticalD. sociolinguistic

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What kind of morpheme is the affix in suddenly? A. Derivational B. Free C. Functional D. Inflectional

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Which deals with the physical properties of speech as sound waves in the air? A. Acoustic phonetics. B. Articulatory phonetics. C. Auditory phonetics. D. Index phonetics.

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Which is neologism in word formation? A. A new word or expression, or a new meaning for an existing word. B. The study of the origin and history of words, or a study of this type relating to one particular word. C. A word adopted from another language completely or partially naturalized. D. A word that combines two or more different words.

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Which letters are consonant phonemes in the word: 'raining'? A. r, n and ng B. r, ai and n C. r, n and g D. r, ai, ng

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Which lexical relation is illustrated in: She liked those crackers so much that she ate the whole packet? A. metonymy B. hyponymy C. homonymy D. prototype

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Which of the following pairs has coherence, but not cohesion?A. The movie theater was empty. We could sit wherever we wanted.B. Which movie theater will we go to? Let's go to the one in the mall.C. My friend got a job in the movie theater. She says she loves it there.D. They closed the old movie theater. It's been closed for over a month.

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Which of the following utterances illustrates inversion?A. how is that open?B. owl eat a candyC. you want eat?D. what book name?

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Which of the following words contains the consonant sound /θ/? A. Thesis. B. The. C. There. D. Them.

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Which of these morphemes can almost all English verbs have added to them? A. "_ing" B. "_ly" C. "_un" D. "_dd"

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Which of these pairs has a morpheme in common? A. walked/went B. teacher/parents C. food/hunger D. cat/sheep

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Which word formation does BRUNCH belong to? A. Blending B. Clipping C. Compounding D. Conversion

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Your public self-image; the emotional and social sense of self that everyone hasand expects everyone else to recognizeA. faceB. wordsC. contextD. reference

A

In the sentence "I saw the car with Patrick." there are distinct ___ structures underlying one ___ structure. This sentence is ___, because it has two different meanings. A. phrase structure rules B. surface structure C. deep; surface; structurally ambiguous D. deep and surface structure

C

33. Which language is written with the Cyrillic alphabet?A. GreekB. RussianC. ArabicD. Italian

B

Approximately how many languages are there?A. 6000B. 7000C. 8000D. 9000

B

Approximately how many years ago did written language develop? A. 3000. B. 5000. C. 7500. D. 20.000.

B

Choose one set that contains a pair of co-hyponyms and a superordinate A. banyan / pine / rose B. bird / duck / parrot C. animal / dog / terrier D. daffodil / turnip / vegetable

B

In simple terms, English conversation can be described as an activity in which,for the most part, two or more people ___.A. The Quantity maximB. Take turns at speakingC. Turn-takingD. The Quality maxim

B

The study of how words are put together is A. Syntax B. Morphology C. Phonology D. Semantics

B

What are morphemes? A. The largest written unit that still has a meaning as a whole. B. The smallest written unit that still has meaning as a whole. C. The written unit that still has meaning as a whole.A random unit that still has meaning as a whole.

B

What is the meaning of the morpheme "pre"? A. go B. before C. after D. soon

B

What is the role of you in "Did you hear those weird noises last night?"? A. agent B. experiencer C. goal D. location

B

Which deals with how speech sounds are made? A. Acoustic phonetics. B. Articulatory phonetics. C. Auditory phonetics. D. Index phonetics.

B

Which is a very common collocation? A. quick food B. fast food C. rapid food

B

Which semantic role is "The entity that undergoes an emotion, a state of being, or a perception expressed by the verb"? A. Agent B. Experiencer C. Goal D. Source

B

Which word is stressed on the third syllable? A. Decision. B. Interrupt C. Alphabet D. Internet.

B

1. How many deictic expressions are there in this sentence? "We were students therelast year, but those instructors didn't care about us, so now I'm studying hereinstead" A. 7B. 8C. 9D. 10

C

2. What term describes the need to be independent and free from imposition?A. face savingB. positive faceC. negative faceD. face threatening

C

24. The most useful term for describing the linguistic input to the language learningchild is ______.A. mothereseB. infant-directed speechC. child-directed speechD. caregiver speech

C

A phoneme is ..... A. A set of rules to describe the patterns of linguistics use B. The study of the sounds of language C. A class of functionally equivalent sounds D. A speech sound

C

Choose one phrase that would best characterize scriptsA. Being a janitorB. Making your contribution informativeC. Eating in a cafeteriaD. Knowing what is in a classroom

C

Choose the word that ends with a voiced sound. A. Race. B. Rush C. Fudge. D. Bath.

C

Damage to Wernicke's area is characterized by the inability to:A. Produce speechB. Use correct grammarC. Comprehend languageD. Recognize a melody

C

I'm hoping that if I work hard, I'll ......................... promotion soon. It would be great to have a higher position with more responsibility. A. earn B. make C. get D. do

C

Lexical ambiguity refers to... A. words that have the same meaning. B. a word that contains the meaning of more general words. C. a word that has more than one meaning. D. words that have different meanings.

C

The process where syllables (rather than morphemes) is omitted. A. Acronym B. Compounding C. Clipping D. Blending

C

What is Deixis?A. A word that is quite hard to spellB. An implied meaning that has to be inferred as a result of a conversational maximbeing broken.C. Words that are context bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to,where something is happening or when something is happening.

C

What is V → {followed, helped, saw}? A. a deep structure B. a surface structure C. a lexical rule D. a lexical ambiguity

C

What is generative grammar? A. A set of rules that help us to write B. A set of rules that help us to read C. A set of rules that we usually are unaware but help us to understand sentences D. A set of rules that help us to communicate

C

What percentage of human breathing while speaking involves exhalation? A. 70. B. 80. C. 90. D. 100.

C

When there is something more to or something different from the literal meaningthat is conveyed, we explain those situations using ___.A. politenessB. referenceC. pragmaticsD. face

C

Which English sound has the features: +voice, +velar, +stop? A. /a/ B. /b/ C. /g/ D. /k/

C

Which description characterizes the audiolingual method?A. memorization is encouragedB. learning vocabulary listsC. language is a set of habitsD. specific purpose learning

C

Which is borrowing in word formation? A. A new word or expression, or a new meaning for an existing word. B. The study of the origin and history of words, or a study of this type relating to one particular word. C. A word adopted from another language completely or partially naturalized. D. A word that combines two or more different words.

C

Which is conversion in word formation? A. word adopted from another language completely or partially naturalized. B. word that combines two or more different words. C. the word formation process in which a word of one grammatical form becomes a word of another grammatical form without. D. The invention of a new word or phrase in a language.

C

Which of the following phrases illustrates perseveration?A. a pimple ('pit bull')B. a tup of tea ('cup')C. not now, another nay ('day')D. a highly played player ('paid')

C

Which set of words is a minimal pair? A. Sink - Single B. Their - There C. These - Those

C

Which sources of language 'The "Bow-Wow" Theory' and 'The "Pooh-Pooh" Theory' belong to? A. The Genetic Source. B. The Tool-Making Source. C. The Natural Sound Source. D. The Social Interaction Source.

C

You should always confirm appointments you ........................ on the phone by sending a follow-up email. A. take B. do C. make D. get

C

You will need to ......................... better qualifications if you want to have a good career. A. take B. do C. get D. make

C

"Instead of looking at the type of sounds as the source of human speech, we can look at the type of physical features human possess. Especially those that is distinct from other creatures." Which of the following source of language does the statement refer to? A. The Genetic Source. B. The Tool-Making Source. C. The Natural Sound Source. D. The Physical Adaptation Source.

D

12. Coherence applies toA. SentencesB. ParagraphsC. Whole argumentsD. All of the above

D

16. Where is control of the articulatory muscles located?A. corpus callosumB. right hemisphereC. Wernicke's areaD. motor cortex

D

26. Which of these examples illustrates overgeneralization?A. she name is LolaB. little lines each sideC. the rabbit of EasterD. four mens

D

3. Choose one indirect speech act used to make requests.A. I'm going to close the doorB. Please leave the door closedC. Close that doorD. Would you mind closing the door

D

At what age (in months) can infants hear the difference between [ba] and [ga]?A. 2B. 3C. 4D. 5

D

Choose one example of blending A. fax B. handbook C. smoke D. telethon

D

How many phonemes are in the word teacher? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

D

Orthography is ......... A. The pronunciation of a word that represents the alphabetic spelling. B. The production of any speech C. The study of the phonetics symbols D. The alphabetic spelling of words that represents the way they are pronounced

D

The alphabet can be divided into two groups. What are the names of the groups? A. Vowels and others B. Vowels and y C. Consonants and y D. Consonants and vowels

D

The process of forming new words by adding affixes. A. Borrowing B. Backformation C. Compounding D. Derivation

D

Which italicized part is not bound morpheme? A. "age" in wastage B. 're" in reconsider C. "s" in cars D. "poet" in poetic

D

Which of the following sources of language aren't we sure about because Apes and other primates live in social groups and use grunts and social calls, but they do not seem to have developed the capacity for speech? A. The Genetic Source. B. The Tool-Making Source. C. The Natural Sound Source. D. The Social Interaction Source.

D

Which of these expressions can be used to rewrite PN? A. She B. The woman C. A dog D. Mary

D

Which process is illustrated by the underlined word in The cost of the project has snowballed? A. Coinage B. calque C. clipping D. Conversion

D

Which property allows us to use language to talk about language? A. displacement B. cultural transmission C. productivity D. reflexivity

D