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The television drank my water. => Is semantically incorrect but grammatically correct.
True
False
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In German the Präteritum von er singt is er sang; in English it is he sings and he sang. => This is positive transfer.
False
True
3
The German [ɛ] in ‘bed’ is lower (tongue position) than [æ] in 'bad'.
False
True
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In sleepwalker, -er is a ....
bound lexical morpheme
free lexical morpheme
free inflectional morpheme
bound derivational morpheme
5
Cocacola is a/an ....
exocentric compound
neo-classical compound
endocentric compound
copulative compound
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What is phon*eme*?
smallest identifiable unit found in a stream of speech
IPA-symbol
represented between square brackets [t]
smallest sound unit in a language which distinguishes meaning
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Partial synonyms can differ with respect to ...
collocation
level of formality
regional distribution
connotation
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What is NOT a loan translation or calque?
Oktoberfest
zeitgeist
worldview
earworm
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He plays the piano. => He is a noun phrase.
False
True
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Would you like to meet for dinner? Yes, of course, at 9? => What kind of response is it?
preferred response
dispreferred response
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He she it - das "s" muss mit is ....
prescriptive grammar
descriptive grammar
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Are you ready for the weekend?
yes, studying is going to be so much fun
yes, I have planned some fun things :)
I am not just ready I need it!
noooooooooooo
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I love having you in my tutorials.
representative speech act
comissive speecha act
expressive speech act
comissive speech act
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This is is a ....
inconic gesture
beat
deicitc gesture
symbolic gesture
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Oh my, you look amazing - is negative politeness.
False
True
16
Lab is a back-clipping (form orig. laboratory)
True
False
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Open and close are ....
reversives; synonyms
gradable antonyms
reversives; antonyms
non-gradable antonyms
18
American sign language ...
uses visemes
is similar to British Signlanguage
was introduced by Laurent Clerc
is 500 years old
19
What is a co-hyponym of rose?
tulip
plants
lily
flower
20
What is NOT an allophone of /t/
[th]
[θ]
[ʔ]
[t]
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What are indications for dispreferred responses?
pragmatic markers
token acceptance
hesitation
short
22
Jane hit her father with a baseball bat. => What is possible?
her father with a baseball bat => direct object
with a baseball bat => direct object
with a baseball bat => indirect object
with a baseball bat => adjunct
23
I play chicken with home at great lunch break is. => is Broca's aphasia!?
False
True
24
ATM is an initialism
True
False
25
fit - sit are minimal pairs
True
False
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James gave his christmas present to *his boyfriend*.
benefactive
agent
indirect object
direct object
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What can be associated with first language acquisition?
starts after pregnancy
caregiver speech
sensitive period
intensive interaction
28
James gave *his christmas present* to his boyfriend.
direct object
indirect object
patient/theme
instrument
29
Structural ambiguity is when sentence trees can be drawn in different ways.
True
False
30
A logogram is a symbol that represents a concept.
False
True
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Neologism is the study of the origin and history of words.
True
False
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Gestures and sign language are the same thing.
False
True
33
James gave his christmas present to his boyfriend. => What is the verb phrase?
complex transitive
ditransitive
intensive
intensive
34
The inflectional morpheme {-s} is pronounced ...
/ɪz/ after sibilants
/tz/ after sibilants and before voiced sounds
/z/ after voiced sounds
/s/ after voiceless sounds
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Interlanguage is ...
variable
preventing students from making mistakes
neither L1 or L2
developing naturally
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She loves her mother. => Her is a determiner.
False
True
