ENG522 Quiz 1 Set 2

Q1. Who among the following says that ‘the focus of applied linguistics is on trying to resolve language-based problems that people encounter in the real world’?

1. Cook
2. Nunan
3. Grabe
4. Rampton

Correct answer: Grabe

Q2. A child enters a two-word stage of language at around ________ months of age.

1. fifteen
2. ten
3. twelve
4. eighteen

Correct answer: eighteen

Q3. Choose the correct option. Children on the first _______ level/s of language tend to rather make a ‘little rule’ out of sentences.

1. four
2. two
3. one
4. three

Correct answer: two

Q4. The earliest known attempts to describe a language in a systematic way originated in ancient northwestern_______.

1. Africa
2. India
3. England
4. America

Correct answer: India

Q5. Descriptive Linguistics focuses on the ________ forms taken by a particular language at a given point in its development.

1. diachronic
2. synchronic
3. descriptive
4. systematic

Correct answer: synchronic

Q6. The rules that express the relation of deep and surface structures in sentences are called grammatical

1. transformation
2. alternation
3. transition
4. formation

Correct answer: transformation

Q7. The phrase ‘Me wanna show mommy’ is an example of ________stage.

1. complex
2. monographic
3. telegraphic
4. morphemic

Correct answer: telegraphic

Q8. A child stays at the telegraphic stage for about_______.

1. one year
2. half a year
3. one and a half year
4. two years

Correct answer: one and a half year

Q9. What particular term Chomsky uses for ‘the way in which people use language in everyday life’?

1. Innateness
2. Universality
3. Performance
4. Competence

Correct answer: Performance

Q10. Saussure thought of language sounds as a series of linguistic signs that are purely _______.

1. desired
2. arbitrary
3. intentional
4. random

Correct answer: arbitrary