ENG502 Grand Quiz by Maha Malik

1. New functional morphemes cannot normally be . (coined)
2. The main three branches of phonetics are articulatory, and auditory. (acoustic)
3. In tradition grammar, a is a category of words have similar grammatical

properties. (Part of speech)

4. Recursive rules have the capacity to repeat or generate the of a sentence more

than once. (structure)

5. Except only in certain educational contexts, modern linguists utterly rejects .

(prescriptivism)

6. The word ‘syntax’ literally means ‘putting together’ or . (arrangement)
7. In Latin, each of the verb forms of different, according to the categories of person

and . (number)

8. In phonology, no word ends with more than consonants. (four)
9. Lexical morphemes are class words. (open)

10.

Which of the given words is pronounced as a single word? (NASA)

11.

One of the properties of generative grammar is that grammar has number

of rules but is capable of producing number of sentences. (finite, infinite)

12.

The most important practical issue that deals with is the learning of second

or foreign languages. (applied linguistics)

13.

Linguistics can be defined as the study of language. (scientific)

14.

In morphology, the difference between dog and dogs is that of form.

(lexeme)

15.

The study of language in general is often referred to as . (linguistics)

16.

Which of the following branches of linguistics discusses the way in which

language is represented and processed in the brain? (psycholinguistics)

17.

The branch of linguistics named is mainly concerned with the analysis of

the distribution patterns and spatial structures of languages in contact. (geographical

linguistics)

18.

In linguistics, is the set of structural rules governing the composition of

clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language? (grammar)

19.

A simple way to understand both phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is

considered the physics of sound, and phonology is considered the of sound.

(psychology)

20.

According to approach of grammar, a sentence is considered grammatical

if a native speaker produces that in speaking. (descriptive)

21.

In English morphology, fast-food comes under the heading of compounding

and comes under the heading of blending.

Smaze smog smurk

all of the given

22.

A group of different morphs, all version of one are called allomorphs.

(morpheme)

23.

In English, a phrase consists of a preposition and a noun phrase.

(prepositional)

24.

Sound waves can be described in terms of properties such as cycle, period,

frequency, and amplitude. (physical)

25.

The element of reduction that is noticeable in blending is even more apparent in

the process described as . (clipping)

26.

The mentalistic approach by Piadget states that all languages must be by the

child. (learnt)

27.

The intra-disciplinary branch linguistics entitled linguistics is mainly

interested in general patterns that shape each and every language, both in their current

structure and in their historical developments. (descriptive)

28.

A phoneme is a basic unit of phonology. It is the unit which causes a change

in meaning. (smallest)

29.

Segmental phonology is not interested in the production, the physical properties,

or the perception of these sounds, but in the and possible combinations of

sounds within the sound system. (function)

30.

In morphology, a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function is called a .

(morpheme)

31.

In morphology, phone is actual realization of the phonemes and morphs are actual

forms to realize . (morphemes)

32.

If the second syllable is strong, it is stressed in such as arrive or apply.

(Verbs)

33.

English is a language. (stress timed)

34.

Segment or forms that cannot normally stand alone and are typically attached to

another from are called Morphemes. (Bound)

35.

Phonology is the study of the sound system of languages. It studies how

sounds categories are manipulated in the processing of language. (abstract)

36.

Closed classes of words take no affixes in English. (inflectional)

37.

In phonology, a minimum syllable is a syllable which has no onset and no .

(coda)

38.

Affixes added to the end of a word are called . (suffixes)

39.

The truth of a proposition is determined by sense reference to experience.

(common)

40.

Choose the word with two syllables. (painted)

41.

Juncture, in linguistics, is the manner of moving (transition) or mode of

relationship between two sounds. (consecutive)

42.

The pronoun must be in comparative case after comparative adjective is the

subject matter of . (descriptivism)

43.

Grate-ciel is an example of loan-translation or a direct translation of the elements

of a word into the language. (borrowing)

44.

The branch of linguistics in which the technique of computer science are applied

to the analysis and synthesis of language and speech is titled as linguistics.

(computational)

45.

The term “adjective” and “noun” are used to label forms in the language as

the or parts of speech. (word classes)

46.

The word ‘transformation’ is a/an . (noun)

47.

Instrumental phonetics is a approach. (quantitative)

48.

Old is an adjective and older is a/an . (adjective)

49.

The language studies involving two or more distinct academic disciplines are

named as studies. (interdisciplinary)

50.

Derivational morphemes often change the part of . (speech)