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What are the three ways consonants are described?
Height, backness, roundness
Voicing, structure, height
Tenseness, height, manner
Voicing, manner, place
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What is syntactic ambiguity?
Incorrect sentence structure
Lack of agreement
Two or more grammatical interpretations
A sentence with no clear meaning
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What is a minimal pair?
Words with same length
Words differing by one sound
Words with same meaning
Words with same spelling
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What term refers to rules about permissible sound sequences in a language?
Phonemes
Morphological rules
Syntax
Phonotactic constraints
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What is an allomorph?
Morphemes that are pronounced the same but have two different meanings.
Phonemes that are represented differently based on environment.
A sound that can appear in multiple environments.
Morphemes that are represented differently based on environment.
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True or false: Syntax studies word meanings.
False
True
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Which is an example of entailment?
If X is true, Y must be true
X and Y are always unrelated
If X is true, Y must be false
If X is false, Y is always true
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At what age does the early language stage typically begin?
12 months
36 months
6 months
24 months
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What is the lexicon?
A list of all the sound rules
A speaker’s mental dictionary
The punctuation system
The grammar rules of a language
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What is the critical period hypothesis?
Language acquisition stops after adolescence
Language must be learned before a certain age for full proficiency
All children learn language at the same speed
Language can only be learned through imitation
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What is/are the morpheme(s) in "rewinding"?
re-, wind, and -ing
Only re-
Only wind
re- and -ing
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What is a diphthong?
Two vowel sounds in a single syllable
A single consonant
A single vowel
Two consonant sounds in a single syllable
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What defines mutual intelligibility?
Having identical vocabularies
Sharing the same grammar rules
Being able to understand each other’s speech
Using the same dialect
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Which brain hemisphere is typically dominant for language?
Both equally
Varies for every person
Right
Left
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What is Grice's maxim of quantity?
Be relevant
Be truthful
Avoid ambiguity
Say as much as needed, no more
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Which is an inflectional morpheme?
re-
-ed
-ness
un-
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Which of the following is a syntactic constituent?
Blue quickly
Very running
On top because
Ate the cake
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What is the maximal onset principle?
Onsets are maximized within phonotactic constraints
Syllables must end with a vowel
Consonants prefer to close syllables
All vowels start new syllables
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Which is a common bilingual language development phenomenon?
Presupposition
Implicature
Overregularization
Code-switching
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True or false: "The girl is in the house" is a proposition.
False
True
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What does a natural class refer to in phonology?
Sounds that are spelled the same
A group of words with similar meaning
A group of sounds sharing common phonetic features
A set of sounds that behave differently
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What is a symptom of Broca's aphasia?
Severe comprehension problems
Non-fluent, effortful speech
Complete loss of language
Fluent but nonsensical speech
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Which term refers to how speech sounds are perceived by the ear?
Articulatory phonetics
Auditory phonetics
Sound phonetics
Acoustic phonetics
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What does the term 'language variation' refer to?
Errors in language use
Different ways of using language based on region or group
Fluctuations in pitch and tone
Learning different languages
25
Which of the following is a dialect of English?
Sabine River Spanish
AAVE
French
Irish Gaelic
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What area of linguistics is known as "word-level grammar"?
Semantics
Syntax
Phonology
Morphology
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True or false: "The horse is an animal" is an analytic sentence.
True
False
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What is it called when a word is repeated (entirely or partially), such as in "she like-likes him"?
Imitation
Blending
Alphabetism
Reduplication
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What is simultaneous bilingualism?
Learning two languages from birth
Learning two languages at different times
Learning one language and forgetting another
Only understanding two languages passively
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Which feature distinguishes voiced from voiceless sounds?
Manner of articulation
Nasal airflow
Place of articulation
Vocal fold vibration
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What distinguishes phonetics from phonology?
Phonetics studies speech sounds; phonology studies sound patterns
Phonology is concerned with vocabulary; phonetics with syntax
Phonetics deals with morphology; phonology with semantics
Phonology studies speech production; phonetics studies word meaning
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Which term refers to the pitch, stress, and intonation in speech?
Allophones
Phonemes
Suprasegmentals
Segments
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True or False: Apple is a hypernym of fruit.
True
False
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True or False: The relationship between form and meaning is arbitrary.
False
True
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What is an adjunct in syntax?
A part of the verb phrase
A synonym of argument
An optional element that adds information
A required argument
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Which category is typically closed in lexical categories?
Verbs
Nouns
Prepositions
Adjectives
