ENG522 Midterm Quiz

ENG522

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1. Saussure thought of language sounds as a series of linguistic signs that are purely

. (Arbitrary)

2. In general terms, quantitative methodology aims to uncover facts and truths in
3. In America, a structural approach was continued through the efforts of Franz
4. The earliest known attempts to describe a language in a systematic way originated in ancient northwestern . (India)
5. A child stays at the telegraphic stage for about . (Half a year)
6. Deep structure determines interpretation. (Semantic)
7. Who among the following said, “The term applied linguistics” raises fundamental difficulties? (Kaplan & Grabe)
8. Who among the following calls applied linguistics as ‘an open field of interest in language’? (Ben Rampton)
9. Who among the following presents the ‘Seven Ways of Looking at (Ron

Macaulay)

10. Defining the research question is a crucial step. (first)
11. Who among the following collected the very first steps of language in children in his article ‘Language Growth and Maturation’? (Lenneberg)
12. Applied linguistics is a methodology in itself, because it is concerned with problems in which central role. (Real-world)
13. The revolutionary attempt of Chomsky in linguistics starts from his concept of grammar. (Transformational)

Q14. Who among the following is known as arguably the first descriptive linguist?

(Panini)

15. At what age children begin to imitate activities and utterances from the people
16. The rules that express the relation of deep and surface structures in sentences are called (Transformation)
17. An etic study is often known as a/an study. (Comparitive)
18. The analytic study of language began around 500 BC in Greece and .

(India)

19. Children are exposed to imperfect language from the from the adults around them and yet they learn language . (Perfectly)
20. A child enters a two-word stage of language at around months of age.

(Eighteen)

21. At what age children learn their first words? (Around ten to twelve months)
22. What particular term Chomsky uses for ‘the way in which people use language
23. What specific name Chomsky uses for ‘the representation of language in the mind’? (Competence)
24. Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire, had its first grammar written in

(1560)

25. Surface structure is the aspect of description that determines the form of sentences. (phonetic)
26. Children still show greater comprehension than at the telegraphic stage. (production)
27. One important source of that enrichment has been the journal Language Learning, published from the university of . (Michigan)
28. Descriptive linguistics is closely allied with the . (Social sciences)
29. In functional linguistics, the concern is with language as a means of

(Communication)

30. Which of the following errors occurs when the learner is unaware of the existence
31. The analytical study of language begin around 500 BC in Greece and .

(India)

32. Descriptive language focuses on the forms taken by a particular language at a given point in its development. (synchronic)

Q33. Who among the following say that ‘in a three-year-old child “grammatical complexity of utterances is roughly that of colloquial adult language’?

(Lenneberg)

34. Who among the following calls applied linguistics as “the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems? (Brumfit)
35. The acronym AILA stands for . (International Association of Applied

Q36. Who said these words?

“language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words”. (Henry Sweet)