What does the IPA stand for in linguistics?

International Phonetic Alphabet

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1
Who was the first President of The United States?
Donald Trump
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
2
What genre is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein often credited with launching?
Science fiction
Gothic horror
Romantic fiction
Detective fiction
3
What kind of a sound /h/ is in phonetics?
Glottal
Dental
Lateral
Bilobial
4
What does the word “etymology” mean?
Study of phonetics
Study of Poetry
Study of word origins
Study of syntax
5
What is the setting of The Canterbury Tales?
A court
A monastery
A pilgrimage
London
6
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Boston
Jamestown
New Amsterdam
Plymouth
7
What is a morpheme?
A phonetic symbol
A type of sentence structure
A grammatical tense
The smallest unit of meaning
8
What century was Old English primarily spoken?
5-11th century
14-17th century
3-5th century
11-14th century
9
What document, signed in 1215, limited the powers of the English king?
Domesday Book
Magna Carta
Habeas Corpus Act
Bill of Rights
10
How many president served more than 2 terms as the president of the USA?
3
2
0
1
11
What does the IPA stand for in linguistics?
Intra-Phonology Analysis
International Phonetic Alphabet
Interlanguage Phoneme Arrangement
International Pronunciation Association
12
Who wrote Paradise Lost?
William Blake
John Smith
John Milton
Andrew Marvell
13
Which of these is a Bildungsroman?
The Raven
Jane Eyre
Heart of Darkness
Dracula
14
What is the typical rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
ABC ABC DEF DEF
AABB CCDD EEFF GG
15
What major event happened in 1776
New Translation of the Bible
Boston Tea Party
Declaration of Independence
Battle of Yorktown

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