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The difference between phonetics and phonology is...
Syntax is...
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Syntax is...
Closed
Rigid
Open
Fuzzy
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The difference between phonetics and phonology is...
Phonetics is human speech sounds; phonology is a language's sounds.
None of the above.
Phonetics is the study of human speech sounds; phonology is about NLP.
Phonetics is the sounds in a language; phonology is about human ability.
3
Sentiment analysis is...
A type of treatment
Manually using words to determine emotions likely present in a text.
None of the above
Computationally using words to determine emotions likely present in a text.
4
Historically, modern English was most influenced by...
French
Spanish
German
Arabic
5
Free functional morphemes in English are said...
Relatively fast
At the same speed as other morphemes
Loudly
Relatively slow
6
New words are invented from scratch - "coined"...
Never
Frequently
More often than borrowed
Rarely
7
According to a linguist, "I ain't got no time" is...
a morphologically incorrect sentence.
a valid sentence
a syntactically incorrectly sentence
a bad sentence
8
Globally, compared with the number of native English speakers...
there are about the same number of nonnative English speakers.
there are more French speakers.
there are more nonnative English speakers.
there are fewer nonnative English speakers.
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A phoneme is...
A speech sound that can impact meaning
none of the above
another name for "a word"
a type of communication device
10
Syntactic form ___ corresponds to illocutionary force.
Never
Often but not always
None of the above
Always
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Words that don't tend to be borrowed from other languages are...
none of the above
names of people
place names
kinship terms and numbers
12
"My kitty went over the rainbow pet bridge" is an example of a...
euphemism
pragmatism
collocation
colloquialism
13
You can make consonant sounds by directing air through your nose.
true
false
It's genetic - some people can and others can't
14
A morpheme is...
A character on a kids' show about robots
A kind of slang
A significant speech sound
A part of a word that can't be further divided
15
Some people may feel hungry when I say "cafeteria" and others may feel repulsed. This is an example of...
connocation
fish sticks
collocation
a fixed phrase
16
"Cran" is an example of a...
Free lexical morpheme
A yummy juice
A bound inflectional morpheme
Bound derivational morpheme
17
Most words...
are onomatopoeia.
sound like what they mean.
None of the above.
are a collection arbitrary sounds that have a culturally agreed on meaning
18
Cartoon villains such as Scar or Boris Badenov have pseudo Russian accents because...
None of the above
Russian voice actors are cheap.
Russian pragmatics sounds hostile to English speakers.
Russian prosody sounds hostile to English speakers.
19
A bag of words approach is...
using words in a contextualized way to do statistical analysis
using words in a decontextualized way to do statistical analysis.
employed by most politicians
used by my professor during lectures
20
The highest front vowel in English is...
<o> as in <note>
None of the above
Schwa
/i/ as in <eat>
21
Which statement is most direct?
What can I do for you?
What do you want?
Can I help you?
What would you like?
22
A collocation that would go with bread is...
"I want a sandwich"
"and butter"
"salt and pepper"
"My goldfish died"
23
The three ways we classify consonant sounds are...
place, airflow, tone
place, manner, voicing
duration, place, voicing
place, obstruction, vibration
24
"My dreams dance wildly with his purple polka dotted ideas" is an example of...
A syntactically valid sentence
A euphemism
A collocation
A moving piece of poetry
25
Most people agree linguistics is...
descriptive
none of the above
prescriptive
ameliorative
26
The study of human speech sounds is...
syntax
phonology
phonetics
morphology
27
An example of displacement would be...
"I put the phone on the counter."
"I redid it."
"'Cat' is a verb."
"The toy is under the blanket".
28
The name of a famous linguist is...
George Mendel
Noam Witowsky
Steven Pinker
Rebecca Allen
29
The way I make meaning from an utterance is always the same way you make meaning.
None of the above
False.
True.
I don't know you well enough to say.
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Sentence meaning tends to be fixed, while utterance meaning can be variable.
True
False
I can't calculate this
It depends who you ask
