General Linguistics 2024

Question 1

The study of the sound patterns that occur within languages

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Phonology

Question 2

A morpheme is the smalles unit of

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meaning or form

Question 3

According to Chomsky: a creative activity involves acquiring a finite set of rules...

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which will generate an infinite set of well- formed sentence structures

Question 4

Language is a system of oral _________ used for communication by human beings.

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symbols

Question 5

Pragmatics is concerned with...

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meaning in context

Question 6

The study of the form of words and word formation processes

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morphology

Question 7

The way in which the sentences of a language are constructed

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grammar

Question 8

Coherence refers to ...

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the logical development of a sequence of ideas

Question 9

The study of all human speech sounds.

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phonetics

Question 10

The arrangement of words in a sentence in a correct way is ______.

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syntax

Question 11

Cohesion is related to the ties and connections that exist

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within texts.

Question 12

The study of meaning

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semantics

Question 13

A phoneme is the smalles unit of

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contrast

Question 14

A person's individual speech pattern

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idiolect

Question 15

The words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language

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Lexis

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