Deck 6: Linguistics Terminology and Concepts

Question 1

The -ish in the word 'childish' is -------

A)an adjective forming morpheme
B)plural morpheme
C)possessive morpheme
D)past morpheme

Answer 1

an adjective forming morpheme

Question 2

The -s in 'boys' is -------

A)an adjective forming morpheme
B)plural morpheme
C)possessive morpheme
D)past morpheme

Answer 2

an adjective forming morpheme

Question 3

The -s in 'john's' is -----

A)an adjective forming morpheme
B)plural morpheme
C)possessive morpheme
D)past morpheme

Answer 3

plural morpheme

Question 4

The final /t/ in walked is ------

A)an adjective forming morpheme
B)plural morpheme
C)possessive morpheme
D)past morpheme

Question 5

The -or in actor is

A)an adjective forming morpheme
B)plural morpheme
C)possessive morpheme
D)noun forming morpheme

Question 6

The -en in strengthen is a----

A)an adjective forming morpheme
B)plural morpheme
C)possessive morpheme
D)verb forming morpheme.

Question 7

The - s in 'she sings well' is ------

A)an adjective forming morpheme
B)plural morpheme
C)possessive morpheme
D)morpheme signaling third person singular.

Question 8

The shortened forms like 'photo' for photograph is an instance of-----

A)portmanteau
B)onomatopoeia
C)clipping
D)metanalysis

Question 9

-----is a method of word formation whereby on or more syllables are removed from longer words.

A)portmanteau
B)onomatopoeia
C)clipping
D)metanalysis

Question 10

------is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words.

A)portmanteau
B)onomatopoeia
C)clipping
D)metanalysis

Question 11

Words which represent the sounds of their referents are called-----

A)portmanteau
B)onomatopoeia
C)clipping
D)metanalysis

Question 12

The two great linguists who have contributed much to frame the device of Immediate Constituent analysis are:

A)leonard bloomfield & noam chomsky
B)leonard bloomfield & max-muller
C)max-muller & herman gundert
D)edward sapir & ferdinand de saussure

Question 13

----------- is the device used in modern linguistics for grouping together words and phrases so as to remove ambiguity of construction.

A)transformational generative grammar
B)the phrase structure grammar
C)immediate constituent analysis
D)all the above.

Question 14

The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ------

A)chomsky's "syntactic structures"
B)chomsky's "aspects of the theory of syntax"
C)leonard bloomfield's "language"
D)both "a' & "b"

Question 15

In transformational Generative Grammar, the 'Generative' means:

A)'to produce'
B)'to develop'
C)'to predict'
D)all the above

Question 16

Which among the following terms denotes the formal agreement between various constituent elements of a language?

A)concord
B)gerund
C)phrase structure
D)none of the above

Question 17

The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the -----------of the same phoneme /l/

A)allophones
B)allomorphs
C)morpheme variants
D)minimal pairs

Question 18

In which of the following words, is the sound /k/ aspirated

A)kill
B)skill
C)skin
D)skit

Question 19

The /k/ in 'kill' and 'skill' are --------

A)allophones
B)allomorphs
C)morpheme variants
D)minimal pairs

Question 20

The initial /l/ and the final /l/ in the word 'little' are----

A)allophones
B)allomorphs
C)morpheme variants
D)minimal pairs

Question 21

The word 'examination' is a ------word

A)monosyllabic
B)disyllabic
C)try syllabic
D)polysyllabic

Question 22

A syllabic division is marked with-------

A)a slash
B)an arrow mark
C)a hyphen
D)a vertical bar

Question 23

Words with more than three syllables are called -----words

A)multisyllabic
B)disyllabic
C)try syllabic
D)polysyllabic

Question 24

----- is the system of phonetic notation composed of symbols and letters devised by the International Phonetic Association

A)the international phonetic script
B)the international phonetic alphabet
C)the international phonemic script
D)the intelligible phonetic script.

Question 25

The IPA was established by a group of -----

A)european phoneticians
B)greek phoneticians
C)indian philologists
D)american linguists