ENG509 Quiz 1

Q1. If we change the order of -------------- in a word, we generally end up with something ungrammatical.

1. lexemes
2. phones
3. graphemes
4. morphemes

Correct answer: morphemes

Q2. The smallest linguistic unit with a grammatical function is known as a/ an ----------.

1. morpheme
2. grapheme
3. lexeme
4. phoneme

Correct answer: morpheme

Q3. To which of the following categories function words belong?

1. Adjectives
2. Determiners
3. Verbs
4. Nouns

Correct answer: Determiners

Q4. Linguists use the term --------------in particular to refer to the mental dictionary.

1. vocabulary
2. lexicon
3. grapheme
4. lexeme

Correct answer: lexicon

Q5. Which of the following is a content word?

1. This
2. I
3. Was
4. Bargain

Correct answer: Bargain

Q6. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), one of the first modern linguists, believed that language was a system of _______.

1. letters
2. terms
3. forms
4. signs

Correct answer: signs

Q7. deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes.

1. Phonotactics
2. Morphophonetics
3. Semantics
4. Phonetics

Correct answer: Phonotactics

Q8. Which of the following is a function word?

1. Bargain
2. Was
3. Sleep
4. Girl

Correct answer: Was

Q9. The grammar that describes the interactions taking place between morphology and phonology is known as ---------------.

1. lexicology
2. prosodic morphology
3. phonetics
4. morphophonology

Correct answer: morphophonology

Q10. More actual representations of a morpheme, such as the plural ending -s (as in bats),z (as in bugs ), and ɪz(as in buses ) are the examples of ---------.

1. lexemes
2. allomorphs
3. graphemes
4. allophones

Correct answer: allomorphs