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How is language acquired in childhood?
What is suppletivity?
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What is suppletivity?
A spelling error
A type of prefix
Repetition of a word
When two different roots express a grammatical contrast
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How is language acquired in childhood?
Through reading books only
Naturally through exposure
By listening to music only
By memorizing grammar rules
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1.What is the definition of a syntagma?
) A set of words with the same root
) A dictionary entry
A sentence
) A linear combination of language units
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. What is the goal of Universal Grammar?
Discover rules common to all languages
Teach grammar in every country
Create universal textbooks
Classify all dialects
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1.What is the syntagmatic relation?
Word arrangement in linear order
Word repetition
Word deletion
Word choice
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What is the aim of teaching grammar?
To create grammar books
To develop language awareness and accuracy
To memorize all rules
To write dictionaries
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Descriptive grammar is different from prescriptive grammar because:
It teaches how to write poems
It only focuses on spoken English
It is outdated
It describes how language is used
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How many inflectional affixes exist in modern English?
20
12
8
15
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What makes a predicative syntagma different?
) It is always interrogative
It has no verb
It contains a verb and shows subject-predicate relation
) It is only used in poetry
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What is Chomsky's Transformational-Generative Grammar about?
Teaching writing styles
Showing how sounds are pronounced
Explaining how deep structure turns into surface structure
Describing dialects
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What is the difference between inner and outer inflection?
Outer is older than inner
No difference
Inner changes the root vowel; outer adds affixes
Inner is suffix-based, outer is prefix-based
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What is linguistic competence?
Knowledge of grammar rules
Knowledge of language structure in the mind
Ability to speak multiple languages
Ability to perform well in exams
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What does creativity in language mean?
The ability to form and understand infinite sentences
Creating strict grammar rules
Inventing new letters
Using rhymes only
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.What is a word family?
Words used in the same story
) Words from the same language
Words sharing a root morpheme
Words with same number of letters
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. Paradigmatic relations refer to:
Word repetition
Vertical choice of words in a sentence
The order of words
) Text structure
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What is a morpheme?
A synonym of a word
The smallest unit of meaning
A punctuation mark
A sentence part
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What does a grammatical category refer to?
A group of languages
A dictionary section
A set of grammatical forms expressing a concept
A part of speech
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. What are free morphemes?
Morphemes that cannot stand alone
Morphemes without meaning
Morphemes that can stand alone as words
Morphemes used only in poetry
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What is the origin of the word 'grammar'?
French 'grammare' meaning book
Latin 'grammatica' meaning drawing
Greek 'gramma' meaning letter
Arabic 'gharam' meaning passion
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What are the three main subsystems of language?
Syntax, Semantics, Logic
Vocabulary, Spelling, Syntax
Pragmatics, Semantics, Grammar
Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
