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1. LINGUISTICS

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1. When the gate broke and all the goats A. systematic changes that occurs
escaped, it created on the farm. within speech sounds
A. chaos B. systematic changes that occurs
within written language
B. opaque
C. systematic changes that occurs
C. chronicle within a language’s grammar
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D. character D. systematic changes that occurs

within word choice s
2. Branches of linguistics are phonology
,morphology & sintax. 5. Possessive adjectives and possessive
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pronouns. Choose the correct word

A. False. to complete the sentence.The coffee is
B. True .
A. my
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C. Can be.
B. mine
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3. Forensic linguistics is a branch of

6. When is NLP started?
A. Applied linguistics
A. 1970’s
B. Psycholinguistics
B. 1950’s
C. Neurolinguistics C. 1980’s
D. Comparative linguistics
7. What is the ultimate goal of linguistics
according to Syeed?
4. Jacob Grimm formulated ’Grimm’s
Law’ which is a series of rules de- A. find universal linguistic traits that
signed to capture the aid language acquiring

1. A 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A
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B. Study particular languages A. antiqe

C. discover the divine language B. antike
D. discover language-specific rules C. anteque
D. antique
8. A structured skill-based approach fa-
cilitates the acquisition of a second 14. An interpretant is:
language.
A. True
B. False

9. Linguistics is the study of language

related to the human mind including
sound speech structure meaning and
usage?
A. true
B. false A. Whatever stands for something
B. Whatever a sign stands for
10. What is psycholinguistics?
C. Whatever a sign creates insofar as
A. It is the scientific study of lan-
it stands for an object
guage.
B. It is the study of the psychologi- 15. Words that have opposite meanings
cal and neurobiological factors that A. Synonym
enable humans to acquire, use, and
B. Antonym
understand language.
C. Diction
C. It is the science of behavior and
mind. D. Connotation

D. It is the scientific study which in- 16. Describing how language is used to-
vesigates the production and percep- day or at a specific time in the past.
tion of sounds. A. Synchronic view
11. *Diachronic linguistics is the study of B. Applied Linguistics
a language through different periods C. Diachronic view
in history.
D. Prescriptivism
A. true
E. Productivity
B. false
17. What is an antonym?
12. The official language of the Union
A. Words that have similar semantic
shall be Hindi in script.
value.
A. Sanskrit B. Words that have the opposite se-
B. Roman mantic value.
C. Pali C. Words that have the same seman-
tic value.
D. Devanagari
D. Words that provide extra detail
13. Which is spelled correctly? and information.

8. A 9. A 10. B 11. A 12. D 13. D 14. C 15. B 16. A 17. B 18. A

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18. Look! The boys (play) with the 23. Language learning processes, like
neighbour’s dog. how language is acquired, how lan-
guage is stored in the brain, how lan-
A. are playing
guage is accessed and processed by
B. play the brain, are studied under
C. plays A. Socio Linguistics

D. is playing B. Psycho Linguistics

C. Applied Linguistics

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19. Written and/or spoken language to
which the learner is exposed. 24. Which is spelled correctly?

A. Intake A. sophmore

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B. sophomore
B. Input
C. sophamore
C. Interlanguage
D. sophmor
20. Originally used to teach Greek and
25. how is work suggested

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Latin
A. puzzle games, the game of hang-
A. Direct Method
man
B. Grammar Translation B. annoying
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C. Communicative Approach C. with patience
D. Natural Approach D. books on various topics for chil-
dren
21. Is it important to understand the stu-
dent’s learning process? 26. what is linguistic

A. Yes, together with the subject mat- A. b

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ter B. e
B. No, only the subject matter is im- C. eb
portant D. re
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C. Maybe 27. is the structure of human language

22. Which of the following statements is A. European structuralism
NOT the aim of applied linguistics B. American structuralism
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research?
C. structural linguistics
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A. To gain basic knowledge or theory

about language learning or use 28. "If Jasmine cannot go to the morn-
ing appointment, she will go to the
B. To confirm existing knowledge, the- afternoon one. (one = appointment)."
ories or ideas about language learning This is an example of what type of
linguistic reference?
C. To address problems in language A. Anaphora
learning
B. Coreference
D. To reduce or minimize issues C. Deixis
concerning unfairness or inequality
among people 29. Diachronic linguistics means

19. B 20. B 21. A 22. D 23. B 24. B 25. A 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. A 29. B
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A. the study of language at a given A. releasing

point in time B. being released
B. the study of language through time C. released
36. Semantic is the study of
C. the study of language dealing with
A. the structure of the words
time
B. language use and communication
D. the study of language as a
metaphor for time C. linguistics meaning
D. clause and phrases
30. The phone is ringing. I get it.
37. Semantics is
A. will
A. the study of word formation.
B. I’m going to
B. the study of the sound system of
31. How should a bibliography/references language.
be organized? C. the study of meaning of words,
phrases, and sentences.
A. most important to least important
38. How do you say "got to" in short
form?
B. in the order in which you read
A. Get
C. least important to most important
B. Got
C. Gotta
D. alphabetically
D. Getto
32. Select the preposition that best com-
pletes the sentence below:The poem 39. At mid-semester, an ESOL student is
was written the man. socializing well with bot ESOL and
non-ESOL students and is excelling
A. with in sports after school. However, she is
B. by struggling in many of her content area
classes. In which area is she lacking
33. ASL syntax is the same as English proficiency?
syntax. A. BICS
A. True B. CALP
B. False C. TPR
D. SIOP
34. We can also use the upper teeth with
the lower lip, for sounds. This is 40. Alveolar nasal voiced
how we make an f sound. A. t
A. Uvular B. n
B. Labiodental C. s
C. Velar D. z

D. Nasal 41. The study of interrelation between lin-

guistic factors and psychological as-
35. The prisoners are all women. pects is called :

30. A 31. D 32. B 33. B 34. B 35. B 36. C 37. C 38. C 39. B 40. B 41. A
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A. Psycho linguistics 46. After being sick for days, Mary had a
B. Sociolinguistics weak and got tired easily.

C. Neurolinguistics A. physique
D. Comparitive Linguistics B. clique
42. The branches of linguistics that focus C. charisma
on the sound system of a language
D. grotesque
A. phonetics & semantics

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B. phonetics & phonology 47. The essence of Materialism

C. semantics & syntax A. the understanding of mind and

consciousness is essential to the un-
D. morphology & pragmatics

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derstanding of the intellectuality of
43. Decide which words are function human beings, particularly language
words in the following sentence:The B. the understanding of material is
children will be swimming in the essential to the understanding of the
ocean at five o’clock.

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intellectuality of human beings, par-
ticularly language
C. the understanding of mind and
consciousness is not important to the
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understanding language
D. the understanding of material is
important to the understanding lan-
A. The, will be, in, the, at guage

B. Children, swimming, ocean, five, E. I have no idea

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48. Reconstruction of a language’s

C. The children will be
change over time is the concern of
D. In the ocean at five o’clock
A. historical linguistics
44. A good translation is:
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B. language analysis
A. Adhering to the theories of trans-
lation C. historian

B. Being faithful to what the author D. old language

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was trying to say

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C. Both above a person

D. None of the above
A. Intermixes two languages
45. After winning the spelling bee, Anna
B. Shifts from one language to an-
received a with her name on it
other
that will hang in the school lobby.
A. plaque C. Speaks Native speaker’s accent

B. lacquer D. Speaks standard variety of lan-

guage
C. scholar
D. etiquette 50. A comparison to show a resemblance

42. B 43. A 44. B 45. A 46. A 47. A 48. A 49. B 50. A

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A. Metaphor C. fall/autumn
B. Simile D. winter
C. Symbolism 55. Leonard Bloomfield
D. Hyperbole A. He studied at Harvard and
Chicago universities
51. select the right option
B. He created the theory of Genera-
A. prescriptive grammar dictates tive Grammar
what aspeaker’s grammar shouldn’t
C. He was an English Teacher
be, and they don’t include teach-
ing grammar, which is written to D. He was an American linguist
helpteach a foreign language. 56. This is apple.
B. prescriptive grammar dictates what A. an
aspeaker’s grammar should be, and
they include teaching grammar, which B. a
is written to helpteach a foreign lan- C. some
guage.
57. It develops the hypothesis that all the
C. prescriptive grammar dictates information necessary to semantically
what aspeaker’s grammar should do, interpret a sign is in the syntactic
and they include teaching grammar, structure of the text.
which is oral to helpteach a foreign
A. generative semantics
language.
B. diachronic semantics
52. The contrastive analysis hypothesis
C. synchronic semantics
sustains that learning a second lan-
guage is easier when L1 and L2 are 58. Consider the word antidisestablish-
similar and it’s more difficult when L1 mentarianism. How many mor-
and L2 are very different. phemes does it have?
A. TRUE A. 11
B. FALSE B. 6
C. 9
53. Competence is the knowledge that
persons have of their grammar. D. 5

A. True 59. The study of language language

sounds production
B. False
A. Phonetics
54. Select the season in the picture. B. Discourse
C. Semantic
D. Pragmatic
60. Complete the following sentence us-
ing will or going to. Have you got any
plans for tomorrow?- Yes, I visit
my grandparents.
A. summer A. will
B. spring B. am going to

51. B 52. A 53. A 54. D 55. A 55. D 56. A 57. A 58. B 59. A 60. B
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61. Most of the concepts of multicultural A. pragmatics
education are simply too difficult to B. semantics
apply when working with children
with disabilities. C. syntax

A. True D. morphology

B. False 68. is the language of communication

between persons who have different
62. Semantics can be divided into the first languages who speak different
study of which three categories? tribal languages.

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(Choose the three that apply)
A. Business Language
A. Sense
B. Code-Switching
B. Reference

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C. Lingua Franca
C. Pragmatics
69. Educators and practitioners can sup-
D. Truth port the home language of multilin-
gual learners even when they do not
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speak the language(s) of their stu-
could affect the outcomes of research
dents.
findings on gender and language use.
A. Strongly Agree
A. TRUE
B. Agree
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B. FALSE
C. Disagree
64. Air stream mechanism used in En- D. Strongly Disagree
glish.
70. "A triangle has four sides" is an ex-
A. Pulmonic Eggressive
ample of a sentence.
B. Pulmonic Ingressive
A. synthetic
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C. Velaric Eggressive B. analytic

D. Glottalic Eggressive C. contradictory
65. When two words are said together, 71. who says Orientations can not be
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an extra sound is sometimes placed defined as either integrative or instru-

between them in order to make them mental because there are a number of
easier to say is defined as different orientations.
A. simplification A. Belmechri and Hummel
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B. intrusion B. Lambert and Gardner

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C. stress C. Kruidenier and Clement

66. Which is spelled correctly? 72. It is important to start with the stu-
dents’ strengths in planning and im-
A. stomak
plementing instruction and interven-
B. stomache tion for multilingual students.
C. stomach A. Strongly Agree
D. stumack B. Agree

67. the study of the ways in which context C. Disagree

contributes to meaning D. Strongly Disagree

61. B 62. A 62. B 62. D 63. A 64. A 65. B 66. C 67. A 68. C 69. A 70. C
71. C 72. A
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73. The word person has multiple words A. Linguistics

that mean the same thing with slightly B. Languange
different connotations - human and
homosapien - is an example of C. Creole

A. syntax D. Pidgin

B. phonology 79. The girl is wearing a

C. lexicon
D. semantics

74. Read the following statement and

answer whether it is true or
false."Linguistics is a person who spe-
cializes in linguistics."
A. True
B. False

75. Pathos A. pink suit.

A. appeal/trigger to emotions B. pink dress.

B. repeating certain sounds in words C. pink sweatshirt.

C. exaggeration 80. Which is spelled correctly?

A. arcaeologist
D. punctuating sentences
B. archaeologest
76. The green slime we made in science
C. archaelogist
class was so and stinky that it
made us gag! D. archaeologist
A. grotesque 81. What are the principles in which lan-
guages can be compared and classi-
B. opaque
fied?
C. chaos A. Genetic, Areal and typologycal
D. chemist B. Genetic, Real and typologycal
77. The students not sad when they 82. How do you write this number?
visited Jakarta
A. are
B. were
C. did
D. do

78. a grammatically simplified form of a A. one hundred and for

language, used for communication be-
tween people not sharing a common B. one hundred fur
language. C. one hundred and four

73. D 74. B 75. A 76. A 77. B 78. D 79. A 80. D 81. A 82. C 83. B 84. A
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83. Punctuation to connect two indepen- 88. Students in this degree have to read
dent clauses that are closely related William Sakespeare.
A. Colon
B. Semicolon

84. Select the two words that would be

an example of "gradable antonyms".
A. hungry

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B. borrower
C. lender

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D. full
A. Metonymy
85. Bilingual speakers switch from one
B. Metaphor
language to the other in the same dis-
course. C. Synaesthesia

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D. Blending

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A. the presence or absences of collo-
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quial/slang in a person’s communica-
tion
B. the emotional content of commu-
A. Code-switching nication and indicates how someone
B. Creolisation feels about the topic.

C. Diglossic C. the use of facts, statistics, direc-

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tions, etc
D. Interlanguage
D. how well you know somebody
86. Below is a zero morpheme.
90. What type of utterance meaning does
ay

A. sheep this sentence have?"Spiders are in-

sects"
B. boyish
A. contradictory
C. loved
B. truth valued
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D. rewrite
C. proposition of a statement
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87. is the general term used to de-

note a form of language (pronunci- 91. The to - infinitive nominal clause can
ation, grammar, vocabulary) that is occur as:
used by particular social groups in A. Subject
particular social contexts.
B. Direct object
A. Dialect C. Indirect object
B. Variety D. Subject complement
C. Jargon
92. General system of rules that govern a
D. Register language is known as

84. D 85. A 86. A 87. B 88. A 89. B 90. A 91. C 92. B

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A. language 98. son las especificaciones a seguir

para elaborarlo, deben incluir to-
B. Langue
dos o la mayoria de los sigu-
C. Linguistics ientes rubros:*proposito del exa-
D. Lexicon men*nivel del examen*lenguaje ade-
cuando de acuerdo al nivel*numero
93. A person who speaks many languages de secciones*tiempo para cada
is called seccionvaalor o puntaje*habilidades
del lenguaje*elementos del lenguage
A. Monoligual
*instrucciones*etc
B. Polyglot
A. calificacion
C. Multilingual
B. reactivos
D. Both B & C
C. evaluacion
94. The was blowing. I had to
thread around the spool D. medicion
A. stop
99. Which word is spelled correctly?
B. breeze
A. constraint
C. open
B. constreint
D. wind
C. constreynt
95. The type of grammar that provides
rules and tells speaker how they 100. Input hypothesis
SHOULD use the language.
A. learners progress in their knowl-
A. Descriptive Grammar
edge of the language when they com-
B. Universal Grammar prehend language input that is slightly
more advanced than their current
C. Prescriptive Grammar
level
96. The study of words and their struc-
B. It states that there are two inde-
ture
pendent ways in which we develop
A. semantics our linguistic skills: acquisition and
learning
B. psycholinguistics
C. morphology C. It states that there are two inde-
pendent ways in which we develop
D. dialectology our linguistic skills: input and output
97. The text producer’s attitude and in- D. It states that there are two inde-
tentions as the text producer uses co- pendent ways in which we develop our
hesion and coherence to attain a goal linguistic skills: input and interaction
specified in a plan is?
E. meaningful interaction in the tar-
A. Acceptability get language - natural communication
B. Coherence - in which speakers are concerned not
with the form of their utterances but
C. Intentionality
with the messages they are conveying
D. Informativity and understanding

93. D 94. D 95. C 96. C 97. C 98. B 99. A 100. A

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101. Two languages or varieties of a lan- 105. To what concept did Noam Chomsky
guage exist side by side, one is used regard the relationship of competence
for formal situations and the other for and performance?
informal situations. A. form and substance
B. part to whole
C. form and part
D. substance and whole

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106. is the adoption of elements of one
A. Code-switching culture by members of another culture,
and it’s considered negative for being
B. Creolisation
between a dominant and a minority

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C. Diglossic culture.
D. Interlanguage A. Cultural Relativism

102. How many morpheme are here /cats/ B. Interculturality

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C. Cultural Interconnection
A. One
D. Cultural Appropiation
B. Two
107. inflectional morpheme
C. Three
A. changes meanings and parts of
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D. Four
speech
103. Which word does NOT contain this B. does not change meanings or parts
sound? of speech
C. makes adverbs from adjectives
D. smallest part of a word that pre-
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cedes the root

108. Language influences the culture.
A. Linguistic determinism
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B. Linguistic relativism
109. A source in the semantic role can
come from
r

A. Another source
A. hat
B. The place of origin
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B. bat
C. The main meaning
C. park
D. The action
D. bat
110. A morpheme that cannot stand alone
104. Identify the English verb tense. Paul is referred to as a morpheme.
went for a run. A. Derivational
A. Past progressive B. Root
B. Simple past C. Inflectional
C. Past perfect progressive D. Bound

101. C 102. B 103. C 104. B 105. B 106. D 107. B 108. B 109. B 110. D 111. A
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111. Nick had to the hot air balloon 116. Lack of negative evidence refers to:
by putting weights on long ropes at- (2)
tached to the basket. A. missing a sound in a language (the
A. anchor Japanese have "r" but not "l".
B. christen B. Sounds that are produced differ-
ently in different locations
C. plaque
C. Children’s grammatical mistakes
D. lacquer
are usually not corrected.
112. People who share a set of linguistic D. Ungrammatical elements in spo-
norms and expectations regarding the ken language are not explained to chil-
use of language. dren.
117. Bahasa bersifat arbitrer. Artinya,
A. bahasa bersifat manasuka
B. bahasa bersifat dinamis
C. bahasa bersifat sistematis
D. bahasa bersifat unik
118. ASL is a shortened from of English.
A. True

A. Pragmalinguistic B. False

B. Sociolinguistics 119. inflection

C. Speech community A. happy - happily
D. Contact zones B. declare - declaration
C. memory - memorable
113. Which is spelled correctly?
D. foot - feet
A. technice
B. technique 120. "Language and Mind don’t always
coincide" was the idea of
C. techneque
A. Descartes
D. tecnique
B. Leibniz
114. "John served dinner." is an example C. Potebnja
of which sentence pattern?
D. Steinthal
A. SVA
121. Noam Chomsky’s theory about lin-
B. SOV
guistic, except
C. SVO A. Language acquisition device/ LAD
115. Learning about your own cultural in human’s brain
background could help you be more B. language can be received naturally
respectful of your students’ cultural
backgrounds
C. how people exchange meaning by
A. True languaging
B. False D. Universal grammar

112. C 113. B 114. C 115. A 116. C 116. D 117. A 118. B 119. D 120. C 121. C 122. B
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122. It is a conjunction used to show rea- A. monarch
son.
B. monach
A. If
C. manarch
B. Because
D. monark
C. But
129. "Punch" is a borrowed lexical word
123. One of the basic conditions for acqui- from what language?
sition of a new language is exposure
A. German

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to the new language community.
A. True B. Hindi

B. False C. Dutch

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D. Italian
124. This research method is a descriptive
technique in which one individual or 130. In an ESOL Classroom, may Spanish-
group is studied in depth in the hope speaking students routinely make mis-
of revealing universal principles takes saying sentences such as, "is cold

an
A. Case Study today," or "Alejandra is growing. Is
tall now." The teacher could guess
B. Hypothesis that this interference is due to what?
C. Experimental A. prepositions in Spanish
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D. Survey B. dropped pronouns in Spanish
125. Many teachers have little or no train- C. using gerunds in Spanish
ing in working with children from
diverse cultural and linguistic back- D. Spanish not having noncount
grounds. nouns

A. True 131. Languages have rules regarding

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grammar and word choice .

B. False
A. exceptionally
126. The teacher provides comprehensi-
ble input-spoken language that is un- B. strict
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derstandable to the learners-or just a C. determine

little beyond the learners’ level.
132. Do language teachers need to study
A. GTM
Linguistics?
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B. DM
A. Yes
Na

C. No answer
B. No
127. is the language of communication
133. Language learning processes, like
between persons who have different
how language is acquired, how lan-
first languages who speak different
guage is stored in the brain, how lan-
tribal languages.
guage is accessed and processed by
A. Code Switching the brain, are studied under
B. Lingua franca A. Socio-linguistics
C. Business language B. Psycho-linguistics
128. Which is spelled correctly? C. Applied linguistics

123. A 124. A 125. A 126. C 127. B 128. A 129. B 130. B 131. B 132. A 133. B
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134. How many plant species can we find A. fishing

in Cerro Blanco?
B. phishing
C. fiphing
D. shifing

139. Which of the following linguists be-

long to the Prague school?

A. 3 A. Bloomfield & Boas

B. 700 B. Jakobson & Andre martinet

C. 15 C. Saussure & Jakobson

D. 22 D. Bloomfield & Saussure

135. Is known as the father "structural lin- 140. Indicate which of the infinitive
guistics"? clauses express a purpose.

A. Noam Chomsky A. He stopped to drive his car.

B. Ferdinand de Saussure B. He learned to look after himself

C. Leonard Bloomfield C. He volunteered to help the dis-

abled.
D. Charles Bally
D. He moved to another place to find
136. Read the following statement and a new job.
answer whether it is true or
false."Pragmatics is a description of 141. is the variety of language, includ-
how humans form linguistic struc- ing vocabulary and grammar, spoken
tures." in a particular social group.

A. True A. Variety
B. Accent
B. False
C. Dialect
137. Grapheme
142. A type of communication created by
A. The smallest meaningful unit into
two speakers from different cultures
which words can be separated, as in-
is:
describe-able.
B. Smallest unit of sound that makes
up a spoken language. Ex. go has 2
/guh/ & /oh/ . The English language
has about 44.
C. The smallest part of written
language that represents a single
phoneme in the spelling of a word. A. Cocultural Group
(May be just one letter or more than
one -ck,-igh) B. Code Switching
C. Intercultural Interaction
138. Saleh took his boat last weekend to
go D. Third Culture Style

134. B 135. B 136. B 137. C 138. A 139. B 140. A 140. D 141. C 142. D 143. A
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143. Order the events: Which of the fol- B. The pictures that the primitive peo-
lowing if the eighth and last landmark ple painted on the cave wall
in the evolution of linguistics that we
C. It consists of sounds and meaning.
mentioned in class?
A. Noam Chomsky proposes that hu- D. Human speech sounds
mans are born with the ability to learn
languages and introduces new linguis- E. Human imitation of animal sounds
tic concepts that are part of modern
146. Which is spelled correctly?
linguistics nowadays.

er
A. allthough
B. The era of Reconstruction: an era
in which language families were iden- B. although
tified. Families of languages were C. althogh

gd
formed by the looking at aspects of
different languages that demonstrate D. althoghe
they were genetically related. 147. How many physical adaption sources
C. Structuralism: There is a shift in can a human possess?

an
describing unwritten languages, and A. 1
language is seen as a structure. Rad-
ical views such as language equality, B. 15
and the distinction between descrip- C. 5
Ch
tive and prescriptive grammar were
D. 6
introduced.
D. Comparative linguistics: since ac- 148. Language enables humans to do
cess to the grammar of different lan- many things, thus serving different
guages was available, linguists started functions in the society.
to look at similarities and differences A. True
among different languages.
an

B. False
144. Mention the characteristics of human 149. What number is being signed?
language!
A. Written, Spoken, Sounds, Arbi-
ay

trary, Social
B. Arbitrary, Social, Written, Spoken,
Productive
r

C. Arbitrary, Social, Systematic, Spo-

Na

ken, Productive
D. Social, Primitive, Arbitrary, Sys-
temic, Productive
E. Arbitrary, Social, Performance,
Productive, Spoken A. 13
B. 23
145. Which is correct about the origin of
Language? C. 33
D. 30
A. Language that echoed natural
sounds. E. 32

144. C 145. A 146. B 147. D 148. A 149. B

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150. A new or hybrid language that devel- 157. "The study of the system of rules un-
ops a new or sophisticated grammar derlying our knowledge of the struc-
or vocabulary and is spoken as some ture of words"
group’s first language is:
A. Morphology
A. Lingua Franca
B. Linguistics
B. Pidgin
C. Semantics
C. Standard Language
D. Syntax
D. Creole

151. What would be an example of a pos- 158. For the party, Ellen dressed up
sessive pronoun in ASL? as Cardi B.

A. He A. masquerade
B. His B. chronicle
C. Himself C. boutique
D. They D. clique
E. Us
159. Which is not a clinical marker for
152. Complex vocalization and object ma- SLI?
nipulation are close to each other in
which hemisphere of the brain? A. non-word repetition

A. Right hemisphere B. sentence repetition

B. Left hemisphere C. verb tense issues

153. According to research language D. developmental articulation errors

learners have the same language learn-
ing styles. 160. Parents and teachers need to take
(there, their) responsibilities as men-
A. TRUE tors seriously.
B. FALSE
A. their
154. There is NO existing corpus for Ba- B. there
hasa Melayu
A. True 161. Why is linguistics worth studying?

B. False A. to help people who have problems

with using language
155. are my new shoes
B. to account for various linguistic
A. That codes
B. This
C. to help learners learn another lan-
C. These guage effectively
156. Select the correct preposition. I cut D. all of the above
the papers my scissors.
162. Identify the semantic roles of the fol-
A. with
lowing sentence:The doctor put a new
B. by computer into his home office

150. D 151. B 152. B 153. B 154. B 155. C 156. A 157. A 158. A 159. D 160. A
161. D 162. B
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A. doctor=patient, computer= agent, 167. We follow very strict exam rules.
his=possesor, into his home of- Does it mean that you have the free-
fice=goal dom to behave as you wish during the
exam?
B. doctor=agent, computer=patient,
his=possesor, into his home of- A. Yes
fice=goal B. No
C. doctor=possesor, computer=agent, 168. What are good methods for teaching
his=possesor, into his home of- vocabulary?

er
fice=goal
A. constant testing
D. doctor=agent, computer=agent,
his=possesor, into his home of- B. create a routine for introducing
new words

gd
fice=goal
C. teach multiple meanings of words
163. In English [p] and [ph] are in
D. read vocab off a list and expect
A. Complementary distribution students to remember it

an
B. Defective distribution 169. Vowels are the sounds:
C. Contrast A. that create impossibility in the flow
of air
D. Free variation
B. that do not create obstruction in
Ch
164. Lexicon: the flow of air
A. A dictionary for people who speak C. that partially create obstruction in
at public events. the flow of air
B. Internet jargon D. None of these
C. The vocabulary of a language, an 170. It is an abstract structure whose in-
an

individual speaker or group of speak- stances participate in a linguistic sys-

ers tem
D. New vocabulary words. A. Signified
B. Signifier
ay

165. Listening to the is so relaxing

that it can lull you right to sleep. C. Linguistic Sign
A. symphany D. Langue
r

B. symphone 171. Use was or were to complete the sen-

tence. He happy.
Na

C. symphoney
A. was
D. symphony
B. were
166. The chemist added corn starch to
172. The scientific study of human lan-
the water, it became and cloudy.
guage
A. opaque A. linguistics
B. scheme B. phonetics
C. unique C. pragmatics
D. conquer D. syntax

163. A 164. C 165. D 166. A 167. B 168. B 168. C 169. B 170. C 171. A 172. A
173. A
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173. Victor Shklovsky’s concept of defa- A. rapid switching from one language
miliarisation is achieved by to another within a conversation.
A. making particular textual features B. A system of words, letters, figures,
becomes prominent or other symbols substituted for other
B. making particular imagery features words, letters, etc.
becomes prominent C. Any set of linguistic forms which
C. making particular imagery fea- patterns according to social factors.
tures becomes obscure D. Program instructions
D. making particular textual features
178. Identify the English verb tense. I
becomes obscure
had been planning on celebrating this
174. Allophone is weekend
A. the smallest sound units capable A. Past progressive
of conveying a distinct meaning B. Simple past
B. kind of phoneme that changes its C. Past perfect progressive
sound based on how a word is spelled
179. Little or no attention is given to pro-
C. the repetition of the sound of a nunciation.
vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming A. GTM
stressed syllables
B. DM
175. Daisy, rose, carnation C. No answer

180. Spot two similes:

A. The teacher roared like a bull
B. You have to agree with me
C. He moved as fast as the wind
D. The path twisted up the mountain

181. Language consists of signs occurring

not in a random collection, but in a
system.
A. Meronymy A. true
B. Hyperonym of flower B. false
C. Hyperonym of flowers
182. At which stage , redundancies , rep-
D. Hyperonym of orchid etitions , curicumlocutions , and lan-
176. The acquisition learning hypothesis guage enhancement strategies are im-
sustains that there are two processes portant for teachers to use when inter-
of learning a language and the most acting with ELLs?
effective is acquisition. A. The preproduction stage
A. TRUE B. The early production stage
B. FALSE C. The speech emergence
177. Code (or variety) D. The intermediate fluency stage

174. B 175. B 176. A 177. C 178. C 179. A 180. A 180. C 181. A 182. B
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183. which one is the "verb" from the sam- 187. Which is spelled correctly?
ple of analysis above?
A. taught
B. teached
C. taght
D. taughte

188. When signing the number 34 which

way is your palm orientation?

er
A. which is lying on the mat A. In
B. the cat B. Out

gd
C. loves C. Down
D. dogs D. Up

184. What was one of the most important E. Side

contribution of Plato to Linguistics

an
189. What is Standard of Coherence?
was
A. Our awareness of whether some-
thing is making sense to us
B. How well we can read
Ch
C. How intelligent we are
D. To what extent we make sense of
a text

190. Synonym is
A. The sentence
A. One of two or more words or ex-
an

B. The subject pressions of the same language that

C. The verb have similar meanings.

D. The Cratylus B. Three words that mean the same

ay

thing.
185. By what other term is comparative
C. One or two more words or expres-
linguistics known?
sions of the same laguague that have
A. etymology opposite meanings
r

B. sociolinguistics D. Words that have similar meanings

Na

but are from opposite languages.

C. ethnolinguistics
D. diachronic and/or historical lin- 191. At , ELLs may demonstrate near-
guistics native or native like fluency in every-
day social English , but not in Aca-
186. Which is spelled correctly? demic English?
A. enough A. The preproduction stage
B. enoff B. The early production stage
C. enugh C. The speech emergence
D. enaugh D. The intermediate fluency

183. C 184. A 185. D 186. A 187. A 188. B 189. D 190. A 191. D 192. A
26 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

192. The characteristics of the speech of A. look

an individual which refers to a geo- B. stair
graphical or social group is
C. keep
A. Idiolect
D. put
B. Dialect
199. Language can be described in terms
C. Variety of observable and verifiable data as it
is being used
193. Girl and boy
A. Structuralist’s View
A. gradable
B. Transformationalist’s View
B. non-gradable C. Functionalist’s View
C. gradation D. Interactionalist’s View

194. Which language are you more likely 200. How many bird species can we find
to find on the playground at recess or in Cerro Blanco?
during lunch in the cafeteria?
A. BICS
B. CALPS

195. what is not part of Intrinsic motiva-

tion?
A. Acomplishment.
B. Stimulation. A. 221
B. 12
C. External regulation.
C. 24
196. What is the smallest segment of D. 1
sound that comprises the basic build-
ing blocks of a language? 201. According to Saussure the social use
of language corresponds to
A. Metameme
A. Parole
B. Morpheme
B. Langue
C. Phoneme
C. Langage
D. Terameme D. Linguistics
197. The study of the cultural meaning of 202. Select the color in the picture.
words
A. Pragmatics
B. Linguistics
C. Phonetics A. white
D. Morphology B. brown

198. I always my eye on my little sister C. blue navy

when she’s playing in the garden. D. green

193. B 194. A 195. C 196. C 197. A 198. C 199. A 200. A 201. B 202. B 203. C
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203. refers to the communication among A. The phoneme
members of different national/ ethnic B. The linguistic
communities.
C. The Syntax
A. Interculturality
D. The morpheme
B. Sociolinguistics
209. Affixes can be subdivided into
C. Cross cultural communication and
D. Multilingualism A. roots

er
B. prefixes
204. Thefollowing are the examples of
Secondary source, EXCEPT; C. suffixes
210. Punctuation used to connect an in-

gd
A. Textbooks
dependent clause and a dependent
B. Journal entries clause
C. Book reviews A. Colon
B. Semicolon

an
D. Biographies
211. Drills, substitution table, and dia-
205. Think twice before you this ad-
logue memorization
vice down.
A. GTM
Ch
A. turn
B. DM
B. play
C. No answer
C. take
212. The study of how linguistics vary
D. hold from one place to the next and one
speaker to the next.
an

206. The type of grammar that merely A. comparative linguistics

describes the way in which speakers of
a language actually use the language, B. linguistic typology
following the mental rules they know C. ethnolinguistics
ay

A. Descriptive Grammar D. sociolinguistics

B. Universal Grammar 213. Knowledge of linguistics may not be

useful for explaining problems con-
C. Prescriptive Grammar cerning language learning.
r

207. The simplest method in acquiring A. True

Na

L2 is . B. False
A. The audio-lingual method. 214. Select can or could for the follow-
B. The grammar-translation method ing definition: We use to talk about
possibility in the past.
C. Communicative approaches
A. could
D. Passive learning method B. can
208. What are the right answers for " fun- 215. A variation in the form of a single
damental units of linguistic descrip- word for grammatical purposes is said
tion" to be

204. B 205. A 206. A 207. B 208. A 208. D 209. B 209. C 210. A 211. A 212. A
213. B 214. A 215. D
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A. Suffix 221. A specifically selected word; word

choice
B. Prefix
A. Diction
C. Derivation
B. Literal
D. Inflection
C. Connotation
216. Schools in which there are no minor-
D. Denotation
ity groups do not necessarily need to
incorporate a multicultural perspec- 222. What is the most popular dialect in
tive. Vietnam?
A. True A. South
B. False B. Central
217. Complete the following sentence. Se- C. North
lect article The or No article. Do you 223. The relationship between cognition
speak English? and language has not been clearly es-
A. The tablished post-lingually.
B. No article A. True

218. The term intelligence has only one B. False

definition: the ability to perceive or 224. Some the causes of multilingualism
infer information and solve problems. in the current world include the ef-
A. TRUE fect of colonialism, migration of peo-
ple from one place to another, inter-
B. FALSE marriages among people from differ-
219. NP + VP =? ent language groups, and introduc-
tion of multilingual learning systems
A. Clause or sentence in schools.
B. PP A. true
C. NPV B. false
D. (AP) N 225. Distinguishing grammatical form
220. By studying the effects of TV view- from ungrammatical ones is
ing on language learning, one can in- A. a syntactic ability
vestigate the effects of
B. a phonological ability
A. input and interaction between the C. a syntactic rule
child and TV characters like the Tele-
tubbies D. a rule of sentence formation

B. input and interaction between chil- 226. The input hypothesis sustains that
dren as they watch together the language information learners re-
ceive has nothing to do with the level
C. linguistic interaction in the ab-
of their linguistic competence.
sence of normal input
A. TRUE
D. linguistic input in the absence of
normal interaction B. FALSE
E. linguistic input from the electronic 227. The study of the sound patterns of
media language is called

216. B 217. B 218. B 219. A 220. D 221. A 222. C 223. B 224. A 225. A 226. B
227. D
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A. Articulation 232. Applying human qualities to non-
human things:
B. Phonetics
A. Personification
C. Pragmatics
B. Alliteration
D. Phonology
C. Imagery
228. Why is it important to know about
D. Metaphor
Linguistics?
233. It is the process of creating and in-
A. It has a relationship with the ac-

er
terpreting symbols.
quisition and history of language.
B. It has a relationship with the struc-
ture, usage, acquisition, and history of

gd
the language.
C. It gives you more knowledge.
D. You can communicate better.

an
229. Corpus-based studies provide basis
for deciding which language features A. Semiotics
and structures are important and how
B. Symbolism
various features and structures are
used. C. Signification
Ch
A. True 234. Phonetics is the study of the sounds
of language. What do we call these
B. False
sounds?
230. What would be an example of a per- A. morpheme
sonal pronoun in ASL?
B. phoneme
an

A. Yours C. syntax
B. Ours D. lexicology
C. Itself
235. Which is spelled correctly?
ay

D. Ourselves A. conker
E. They B. conguer
231. Select the pronoun that best de- C. conquer
r

scribes the person (s) saying Hi! D. conequer

Na

236. Decide which words are content

words in the following sentence:The
children will be swimming in the
ocean at five o’clock.

A. we
B. they
C. I
D. it

228. B 229. A 230. E 231. C 232. A 233. B 234. B 235. C 236. B

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A. The, will be,in, the, at A. Practicing minimal pairs

B. Children, swimming, ocean, five, B. Identifying phonemic distinctions
o’clock
C. Cutting sentences apart
C. The children will be
D. Learning orthographic skills
D. In the ocean at five o’clock
241. is the study of meaning.
237. This hypothesis stated that linguists
were able to predict the areas of dif- A. Pragmatics
ficulty for second language learners B. Syntax
through a comparison of their first
C. Semantics
language to the second language.
A. Interlanguage D. Phonetics

B. Morpheme Acquisition Studies 242. relative clause

C. Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis A. i found her at the back of class
238. Wayuu indigenous group belongs to B. she collects the letter for her secret
the Arawak linguistic family. We can admirer
find this indigenous group in C. the face was very beautiful in the
night
D. the lame dog that is following me
might be lost

243. Pragmatics also focuses on conversa-

tional , which is a method of com-
munication in which the speaker im-
A. Vichada department plies and the listener infers. For exam-
ple, when someone is using pragmatic
B. La Guajira department
language, they are suggesting or hint-
C. Amazonas department ing a meaning towards the listener
who supposes the accurate intention.
239. The properties of language are:
A. creativity, displacement, arbitrari- A. inference
ness, productivity, duality B. implication
B. displacement, arbitrariness, pro- C. implicature
ductivity, cultural transmission, dual-
D. evidence
ity
C. cultural transmission, duality, dis- 244. The knowledge that a person has
placement, arbitrariness about a language to produce a word
or a sentence; the rules s/he knows in
240. Which of the following activities order to produce sentences. Knowl-
should the teacher implement to best edge of the grammar, vocabulary and
help students address the L1 interfer- structure of one’s native language.
ence?
A. Linguistics
B. Linguistic performance
C. Linguistic competence
D. Applied Linguistics

237. C 238. B 239. B 240. C 241. C 242. D 243. C 244. C 245. B

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245. I had the of my life when we were 251. The branch of linguistics which
together. studies how utterances communicate
meaning in context is known as:
A. memory
A. Semantics
B. time
B. Syntax
C. day
C. Pragmatics
D. fun
D. All of the above
246. It could be argued that women use

er
252. Which animals communicate
the more standard forms of language
through a dance?
to avoid offending others.
A. Bees
A. TRUE

gd
B. Cats
B. FALSE
C. Swans
247. At which stage , teachers need to
D. Zebras
teach metacognitive strategies in or-

an
der to help ELLS predict , describe , 253. Spot all the personification:
demonstrate , and problem solve?
A. The clouds smothered the sky
A. The preproduction stage
B. The road ran up the mountain
B. The early production stage
Ch
C. The Sun glared down at us.
C. The speech emergence stage D. The car coughed and spluttered.
D. The intermediate fluency stage
254. Based on the position of lips, vowel
248. The cardinal problem of language sounds are classified into and
and the pivotal concern of linguistics vowels.
is:
an

A. front, back
A. Multilinguality B. close, open
B. Equivalence in difference C. rounded, unrounded
C. Learning capability
ay

255. Berenang adalah kegiatan yang

D. None of the above menyenangkan.Predikat kalimat di
atas adalah
249. The word "Bratru" in Sanskrit is A. berenang
r

closely related to
B. adalah
Na

A. the word Brother in English

C. kegiatan
B. the word Padre in Spanish
D. menyenangkan
C. the word Bro in common coinage
256. Nama lain awalan
D. to the word branthu in malayalam
A. Sufiks
250. What is a corpora? B. Infiks
A. Plural form of Corpus C. Prefiks
B. A new set of language data D. Konfiks
C. Corpus that is duplicated E. Afiks

246. A 247. C 248. B 249. A 249. C 250. A 251. C 252. A 253. A 253. B 253. C
253. D 254. C 255. B 256. C 257. C
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257. We refer to MORPHOLOGY to D. z

study words structure.
261. Which is spelled correctly?
A. False
A. carisma
B. Can be
B. charisma
C. True
C. charesma
258. In order for the to sail smoothly,
D. chrsma
you need steady gusts of wind to fill
the two sails. 262. Comparing things using ’as’ and
A. schooner ’like’

B. choir A. metaphor

C. charisma B. simile

D. christen C. linking vocab

D. conjunction
259. Order the events: Which of the fol-
lowing if the seventh landmark in the 263. At , ELLs understand the aca-
evolution of linguistics? demic English?
A. Noam Chomsky proposes that hu- A. The preproduction stage
mans are born with the ability to learn
B. The early production stage
languages and introduces new linguis-
tic concepts that are part of modern C. The speech emergence stage
linguistics nowadays. D. The intermediate fluency stage
B. The era of Reconstruction: an era
in which language families were iden- 264. What NMS is used with a rhetorical
tified. Families of languages were sentence?
formed by the looking at aspects of A. pursed lips
different languages that demonstrate
B. raised eyebrows
they were genetically related.
C. lowered eyebrows
C. Structuralism: There is a shift in
describing unwritten languages, and 265. Aspects of meaning are
language is seen as a structure. Rad-
A. Feeling, Tone, Intention, and Test-
ical views such as language equality,
ing
and the distinction between descrip-
tive and prescriptive grammar were B. Feeling, Writing, Intention, and
introduced. Sense
D. Comparative linguistics: since ac- C. Speaking, Tone, Intention, and
cess to the grammar of different lan- Sense
guages was available, linguists started D. Feeling, Tone, Intention, and
to look at similarities and differences Sense
among different languages.
266. Semantic is
260. Alveolar stop voiceless
A. It learns about the phonetic sym-
A. t
bol.
B. d
B. It learns about the structure of lan-
C. s guage.

258. A 259. C 260. B 261. B 262. B 263. C 264. B 265. D 266. C

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guage.
B. Pre-Spanish Period
D. It learns about speaking.
C. Japanese Period
267. The study of language meaning, in- D. Period of Enlightenment
cluding connotative meaning, is called
A. lexicology 273. Psycholinguists view that in order to
comprehend a language, human rely
B. syntax on for a full interpretation.

er
C. semantics A. autonomous linguistics processes
268. The notion that language shapes B. non-linguistic cues from texts
thought and experience of its speakers

gd
C. knowledge of characters, entities
is known as:
& events not explicitly mentioned
A. Cultural Relativism
D. the speaker’s language compe-
B. Behaviorism tency

an
C. Linguistic Relativity E. cues from the choice of words
D. Cultural Anthropology
274. glotal’s sound
269. She got a dog. A. /t/
Ch
A. has B. /h/
B. have C. /m/
C. is
D. /v/
270. System of rules underlying our
275. Some vowels sounds are different
an

knowledge of words and sentence

in their pronunciation from one part
meaning
of the country to another.
A. Semantics
A. strict
B. Pragmatics
ay

B. notably
C. Morphology
C. non-standard
D. Syntax
276. The sounds made by holding the lips
r

271. He cut the meat with a knife. What is together and then releasing the sound,
the semantic role of the word in italic? such as p and b
Na

A. Theme A. Liquid
B. Agent B. Nasal
C. Source C. Bilabial
D. Instrument
D. Nasal
E. Location
277. Relationship between language use
272. The Philippines had literature such and the social world, particularly how
as legends, folktakes, folksongs, and language operates within and creates
the like. social structures.

267. C 268. C 269. A 270. A 271. D 272. B 273. A 273. B 273. C 274. B 275. B
276. C
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C. additive bilingual
D. subtractive bilingual

281. in chemical reaction, rearrange to

form new substances.
A. atoms
B. product
C. reactants
D. bonds

282. Descriptive grammar focuses of de-

scribing the language as it is used, not
saying how it should be used.
A. Pragmalinguistic A. True
B. Sociolinguistics B. False
C. Speech community 283. Using more than one language, ei-
D. Contact zones ther by an individual or a community
of speakers
278. Synchronic linguistics is the study of
a language A. multilingualism

A. at a given point in time B. inference

B. in a relation with its mother lan- C. standardization

guages
284. The study of interrelation between
C. that is extinct linguistic factors and psychological as-
pects is called
D. as spoken by proto-indo-
europeans A. Neurolinguistics

279. The vocal cords can be tightened B. Psycholinguistics

and loosened and can vibrate when C. Sociolinguistics
air is past them, creating sounds
called examples include the con- 285. When we say that an accent is iden-
sonants b, d, g, v, z and r. tifiable, it means that you cannot rec-
ognize where it is from.
A. unvoiced
A. True
B. nasal
B. False
C. Voiced
D. bilabial 286. The development of oral language
is integral to learning for multilingual
280. When a person is able to learn a sec- learners.
ond language without experiencing in-
A. Strongly Agree
terference with the first language, then
this is referred to as: B. Agree
A. simultaneous bilingual C. Disagree
B. sequential bilingual D. Strongly Disagree

277. B 278. A 279. C 280. C 281. A 282. A 283. A 284. B 285. B 286. A 287. B
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287. The walls of the fortress were not 293. Corpus Linguistics is the same as
strong enough to block the invading Discourse Analysis
army. In the sentence above, the word A. True
block means
B. False
A. a length of houses.
294. (Ona marzy) about having her
B. to stop the movement of.
own room since her childhood.
C. to forget a memory.
A. She dreams
D. a piece of wood or stone.

er
B. She is dreaming
288. A sequence of two or more words C. She dreamt
that acts as a unit in a sentence
D. She has dreamt

gd
A. Phrase
295. We are our final exams next
B. Dependent Clause week.This course is quite unusual but
C. Independent Clause I don’t regret it up.
D. Colon A. passing

an
289. Choose the correct option for each B. doing
gap below.I’d rather go in December C. taking
in May.
D. sitting
Ch
A. than
296. A group of Norwich men who were
B. to interviewed claimed that they prefer
290. the study of how different parts of to use the more standard forms of lan-
the brain are involved in performing guage.
different functions related to language A. TRUE
A. neurolinguistics B. FALSE
an

B. cognitive psychology 297. Who works in a company?

C. psycholinguistics
D. cognitive science
ay

291. Which of the following number has

palm in?
A. 25
r

B. 14
Na

C. 10 A. businessman/businesswoman
D. 32 B. teacher
E. 100 C. policeman/ policewoman
292. Which is spelled correctly? 298. Linguis adalah
A. schedule A. sistem bahasa
B. skedule B. pegiat bahasa
C. scedule C. ahli bahasa
D. schedile D. ilmu bahasa

288. A 289. A 290. A 291. B 292. A 293. B 294. D 295. C 296. B 297. A
298. C
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299. Linguistics have studied bee dances 305. Two beautiful . are sitting on the
and kept careful records in order to bench in the park.
understand that form of communica- A. ladyes
tion.
B. ladies
A. True linguistics is a science,
C. lady
meaning it involves thorough research
306. True or False: Culturally and linguis-
B. False the bee dance has only tically diverse students should be pro-
been observed and records are merely vided opportunities for self directed
anecdotal learning.
A. True
300. Who published the first linguistics
B. False
study in ASL
A. Edward Gallaudet 307. An important tool in acoustic re-
search is a computer program?
B. William Castle
A. yes
C. William Stokoe B. no
D. Albert Einstein
308. Which of the following is an exam-
E. Thomas Gallaudet ple of a simile?
A. Her eyes shined like the sun
301. ASL is a language capable of express-
ing abstract ideas. B. He is such a pig
A. True C. Their dinner was as cold as ice

B. False D. News travels quickly around here

309. The Egyptian pharaoh experi-
302. Phonetics is the study of mented the divine source by isolating
A. Production of speech sound two newborn babies with dogs and
cats.
B. Organisation of speech sound
A. True
C. Articulation of speech sound
B. False
D. Reception of speech sound
310. Words that have similar meanings
303. The great majority of general and A. Synonyms
special education teachers in the
United States come from the domi- B. Antonyms
nant culture. C. Diction
A. True D. Literal
B. False 311. The study of the minimal meaningful
units of language
304. Which is spelled correctly?
A. Semantics
A. echo B. Phonology
B. ecko C. Phonetics
C. ecco D. Morphology
D. echa E. Syntax

299. A 300. C 301. A 302. A 302. C 302. D 303. A 304. A 305. B 306. A
307. A 308. A 308. C 309. B 310. A 311. D
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312. A message that requires considering 317. Theory of the origin of the different
the body language and tone of the languages.
speaker is:
A. Bow-wow theory

B. Tower of Babel

C. Pebble theory

318. What is the difference between a

er
metaphor and a simile?

A. A metaphor compares two things

A. High Context by saying that one of them is the other,

gd
B. Direct whereas a simile uses ’like’ or ’as’.

C. Pragmatic B. A simile compares two things by

saying that one of them is the other,
D. Elaborative
whereas a metaphor uses ’like’ or ’as’.

an
313. Which words are onomatopoeias?
319. Italic or Latin descendants include
A. Hum all the following languages except
B. Wrong
A. French
Ch
C. Buzz
B. Portuguese
D. Silence
C. Scots Gaelic
314. Language aims to:
D. Catalan
A. To study, understand and create
new words and phrases.
an

320. The social interaction theory’s idea

B. To understand how the language is that the sound of a person involved
faculty of the mind works and to de- in effort could be a source of our
scribe how language itself works. language.
ay

C. To discover the mistery of the hu- A. physical

man mind system of communication
and language, then to create more lan- B. psychological
guages.
r

321. A standard set of basic written sym-

315. Study of language is called . bols or graphemes used to write a lan-
Na

A. linguistic guage based on the general principle

that the letters represent phonemes of
B. Linguistics the spoken language is called:

316. What is the metalinguistic function A. Alphabet

of language according to Jakobson?
B. Hieroglyph
A. maintaining contact
C. Klingon
B. referring to itself (i.e. language)
C. reflecting the states of mind of the 322. Select the part of the face indicated
speaker by the pink box in the picture.

312. A 313. A 313. C 314. B 315. B 316. B 317. B 318. A 319. C 320. A 321. A
322. A
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327. The study of speech as a physical

process
A. phonetics
B. photography
C. morphology
D. pragmatics

A. tongue 328. In the sentence "The fat man ate

food," which part is the noun phrase?
B. nose
A. Man
C. jaw
B. Ate
D. eye
C. The fat man
323. by the boy’s behavoiour, she com- D. Ate food
plained to the headteacher.
329. How do you say "valigia" in English?
A. Annoyed
A. handbag
B. Annoying
B. bookcase
C. Having annoyed
C. dresser
324. Is considered now a disciplined and
systematic language, used as mental D. suitcase
gymnastics and important to develop 330. Which of these statements is a re-
mental abilities quirement of Acquisition?
A. English A. Pre-language" use of sound pro-
B. Lingua Franca vides the child with some experience
of the social role
C. Latin
B. The child gradually becomes capa-
D. Spanish ble of producing sequences of vowel-
like sounds
325. The culture that we grew up, in the
culture we have adopted, the predom- C. Child need interaction with other
inant culture in the society - all have language-users
their effects on us, and push us into
D. A conversational structure that
thinking in particular ways.
seems to assign an interactive role to
A. TRUE the young child
B. FALSE 331. Linguistics is a
326. Billy created a to play a practical A. interpretative field
joke on his brother by replacing the B. descriptive field
sugar with salt.
C. analytical field
A. scheme
D. explanatory field
B. schedule
332. starts to develop in the two-word
C. critique
stage when the child speaks like a tele-
D. charisma gram, using mostly nouns and verbs.

323. A 324. C 325. A 326. A 327. A 328. C 329. D 330. C 331. B 332. C
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A. telegraphic speech
B. semantics
C. syntax
D. broken speech

333. You do more exercise.

A. Semantics
B. Pragmatics

er
C. Linguistics
D. Grammar

gd
337. The brain is especially ready to learn
language in early childhood.
A. should no’n
B. should A. TRUE

an
C. shoud B. FALSE

334. sew - so - sow 338. According to Saussure, sign is the

union of
A. homophone
A. Sign & signature
Ch
B. homonym
B. Signature & signifier
C. polysemy
C. Signifier & signifie
335. Language probably emerged 10,000
years ago and there were some condi- D. Signifiant & signifie
tions.
339. In bilingual speakers, the choice to
an

A. Humans had a view of the world, use 1st language (L1) or 2nd language
they produces a range of soundsthey (L2) is influenced by the following,
produce sound sequences that can be except
symbols for people and objects.
A. Environmental situation and con-
ay

B. Humans had a view of the world, ditions.

they produces a range of words they
produce sound sequences that can be B. The function of each language.
symbols for people and objects. C. The socio-economic level of the
r

C. Humans had a view of the world, speaker.

Na

they produces a range of sounds, they D. Status of each language.

produce sound sequences that can be
symbols for people and animals. 340. the are divided on the basis of
Konkani and Marathi languages.
336. The branch of linguistics and logic
concerned with meaning. The two A. Goans
main areas are logical semantics, con- B. Karnataka
cerned with matters such as sense
and reference and presupposition and C. Belgaon
implication, and lexical semantics, D. Maharashtra
concerned with the analysis of word
meanings and relations between them. 341. Which is spelled correctly?

333. B 334. A 335. A 336. A 337. A 338. D 339. C 340. A 341. D

40 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

A. schemee 346. Homographs

B. skeme A. Words that are spelled identically
C. sceme and pronouced differently.
D. scheme B. Words that are spelled identically
342. Process (after pidginisation) speakers and possibly pronounced the same.
develop an elaborated code that can C. Words that are pronounced the
accommodate the full range of life’s same but spelled differently.
functions.
D. Words that are spelled differently
and pronouced the same

347. The components of language

A. phonology, syntax, semantics,

pragmatics, phonetic
A. Code-switching B. phonology, morphology, semantics,
B. Creolisation syntax, pragmatics
C. Diglossic C. phonetics, morphology, semantics,
D. Interlanguage syntax, pragmatics

343. Language variety distinguished by 348. is the variety of language, includ-

features of linguistic structure: gram- ing vocabulary and grammar, spoken
mar (specifically morphology and syn- in a particular social group.
tax) and vocabulary
A. dialect A. Dialect

B. accent B. Accent
C. pidgin C. Variety
344. Macy likes the bright green car be-
cause it is from all the boring nor- 349. Which of the following BEST de-
mal ones. scribes Language?
A. unique A. A system that associates sounds
B. plaque (or gestures) with meanings in a way
that uses words and sentences.
C. charisma
D. chronicle B. It is the scientific study of human
language.
345. Words in different languages that are
related to each other because they de- C. Attempts to make practical use of
rive from a common mother language the knowledge derived from general
linguistic research
A. creoles
B. collates D. It existed much earlier than writ-
ing.
C. cognates
D. collatives 350. Intertextuality is?

342. B 343. A 344. A 345. C 346. A 347. B 348. A 349. A 350. C

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A. The situation in which a text is A. 15
exchanged influences the comprehen-
B. 55
sion of the text.
C. 13
B. The processing of highly informa-
tive text demands greater cognitive D. 25
ability but at the same time is more E. 50
interesting
354. How many countries are there in
C. The factors which make the uti-
Africa?
lization of one text dependent upon

er
knowledge of one or more previously A. 54
encountered text.
B. 50
D. The text receiver’s attitude that

gd
C. 45
the text should constitute useful or
relevant details or information such D. 48
that it is worth accepting
355. Subtractive bilingualism is not asso-
351. A comparison between two things ciated with:

an
using the words ’like’ or ’as’ is called A. Loss of identity
a
B. A sense that one’s language and
A. foil culture are inferiority
Ch
B. direct comparison C. The home language being re-
C. simile placed by the L2
D. figurative language D. Positive views toward one’s home
E. metaphor language

352. What involves knowledge for using 356. The area of communicative compe-
tence that deals with being able to
an

competence so that the process of sen-

tence production and understanding recognize and repair instances of com-
can be realized? munication breakdown is compe-
tence.
A. Knowledge
ay

A. linguistic
B. Language Competence
B. discourse
C. Language Performance
C. sociolinguistic
D. Speech Error
r

D. strategic
353. What number is being signed?
Na

357. By whom the earliest significant

work in comparing languages was
done?
A. William June
B. William Jones
C. William Jenkins
D. William Janis

358. The purpose of the time sign in ASL

is to

351. C 352. C 353. D 354. A 355. D 356. D 357. B 358. B

42 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

A. identify the noun A. Like

B. Identify the type of verb tense B. Basically

C. extablish the adjective C. Okay

D. Suddenly
D. know the time of day
364. Kim and Jake to leave now.
E. establish the pronoun
A. are wanting
359. Which statement is NOT true? Lan-
B. want
guage is a human system of commu-
nication which: 365. Function (Referential) indicates
A. can be expressed by gestures A. How well you know somebody
B. can be spoken B. the use of facts, statistics, direc-
tions, etc.
C. can be written
C. the emotional content of commu-
D. has fixed reference nication and indicates how someone
feels about the topic.
360. Read the following statement and
answer whether it is true or D. social ranking
false."Because of external only, En- 366. which one is the "relative clause"
glish has changed quite significantly from the sample of analysis above?
from the Old English period to the
present."
A. True
B. False

361. Two paradoxes of interlingual com-

munication are
A. which is lying on the mat
A. Complex and natural
B. the cat
B. Complex and compound
C. loves
C. Completely complex and artificial
D. dogs
D. Unnatural and complex
367. Which word starts with a voiced con-
362. The study of language change over sonant?
time, including the study of language A. ferry
families and relationships among the
B. space
world’s languages.
C. victory
A. Corpus Linguistics
D. cake
B. Sociolinguistics
368. It is more natural and similar to
C. Historical Linguistics learning a mother tongue or L1.
D. Computational Linguistics A. GTM

363. Which of these are examples of dis- B. DM

course markers? C. No answer

359. D 360. B 361. A 362. C 363. A 363. B 363. C 364. B 365. B 366. A 367. C
368. B 369. D
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369. Give an example of word pertaining 375. Select the correct form of irregular
to only linguistic acquaintance: plural for the folowing noun: tooth
A. Gods A. tooths
B. Nectar B. teeth
C. Ambrosia
C. teeths
D. All above
376. This involves the EXTENSION or
370. Copulas indicate a change of state GENERALIZATION of a regularity

er
due to some force or action. on the basis of the inference that if
A. True elements are ALIKE in some respects,
they should be alike in others as well.
B. False

gd
A. Articulatory Simplification
371. It is a testimony or an account of
someone who isnot an eyewitness to B. Reanalysis
the event being narrated. C. Language Contact

an
A. Physical source
D. Analogy
B. Cultural source
377. What is American Sign Language?
C. Primary source
D. Secondary source A. A visual form of English and a lan-
Ch
guage that relies on mime
372. *What is Localization of the Lan-
B. A language that relies on mime
guage in the brain?
and picture-like gestures to express
A. *It Split-brain distinguished ideas and concepts
B. Localization have specific aspects C. A language capable of expressing
of the Language ability and specific
an

abstract ideas and utilizing space and

location in the brain. movement to convey meaning
373. To show the difference between the D. Language using picture-like ges-
following word pairs, one should pay tures to express ideas and concepts
ay

attention to which of the following 5 and a visual form of English

parameters?cold freezing coldrain
raining cats and dogshot swel- 378. Phonology is a branch of Linguistic.
teringwindy windstormcloudy
A. True
r

fluffy cloudssnow blizzard

A. location and palm orientation B. False
Na

B. handshape and location C. May be

C. movement and handshape 379. ’When 1) John loves Lisa, do you
D. NMS and movement think that 2) Lisa loves John?’ The
expression above represents the types
374. Does linguistic applied take into con- of true and false condition of
sideration different perspective at the
time of solving language problems? A. utterance

A. Yes. B. proposition
B. No. C. sentence

370. A 371. D 372. B 373. D 374. B 375. B 376. D 377. C 378. A 379. B
44 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

380. "A conversational structure that 385. Speakers fail to convey their mean-
seems to assign an interactive role to ing because the the message’s prag-
the young child even before he or she matic force is misunderstood (cultural
becomes a speaking participant"The norms are different than in L1).
above statement is the meaning of:
A. Babbling
B. Cooing
C. The two-word stage
D. Caregiver Speech

381. Once a multilingual learner has been

diagnosed with Special Education
Needs, it would be better to focus on
learning one language.
A. Strongly Agree
B. Agree
C. Disagree A. Pragmalinguistic
D. Strongly Disagree B. Sociolinguistics
C. Speech community
382. I . play the guitar very well.
D. Contact zones
A. can
386. What word is spelled correctly?
B. have
A. claimant
C. am
B. claymant
383. Which of these can be placed in a C. cleimant
separate document?
387. Paul and Pam are twins. . are ten.
A. Header
A. They
B. Tagging B. We
C. Contextual events C. He
D. Grammatical label 388. What is prosody?
A. computer-mediated communica-
384. The elements of language are com-
tion
posed of, or can be broken into, dis-
tinct smaller linguistic units. What is B. use of bold or italics
it? C. stress, intonation and emphasis in
A. Displacement spoken language
D. use of emoticons
B. Duality
389. the study of the mental representa-
C. Productivity
tions and processes involved in lan-
D. Discreteness guage use

380. D 381. D 382. A 383. A 384. D 385. A 386. A 387. A 388. C 389. A
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A. psycholinguistics 395. A method of instruction developed
according to Behaviourist theory: it
B. neurolinguistics
provided appropriate stimuli for learn-
C. cognitive psychology ers to imitate; it fostered associa-
tion formation and mistakes were cor-
D. lexicon rected immediately.

390. Which of the following is NOT an A. Morpheme Acquisition Studies

English corpus? B. Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

er
A. Brown Corpus C. Audiolingual Method

B. COBUILD Corpus 396. At which stage , ELLs may have de-

veloped up to 12,000 word receptive

gd
C. SEALang Corpus vocabulary and a 4,000 active vocab-
ulary?
391. Changes in the language (for ex-
A. The preproduction stage
ample, difference pronunciation and
word choice s) associated with certain B. The early production stage

an
geographical areas. C. The speech emergence stage
A. Geographical variation D. The intermediate fluency stage

B. Sociolinguistic variation 397. The concept-oriented framework ex-

plains language learning as driven by
Ch
C. Strategic competence a general pressure to communicate
intended meanings. Acquisition pro-
392. What letter comes next?A - B -? ceeds when the means available to the
A. D learner do not suffice for conveying
the desired functions and concepts in
B. E their messages.
an

C. C A. True
B. False
393. Which of the following is the small-
est unit within a language system? 398. Which is spelled correctly?
ay

A. Syntax A. geographe
B. gegraphy
B. Morpheme
C. geogriphy
r

C. Phoneme
D. geography
D. Word
Na

399. Using words to represent sounds in

E. Sentence poetry or literature is called
A. imagery
394. Read the following statement and
answer whether it is true or B. onomatopoeia
false."Linguist is the study of struc- C. exclamation
ture and development of language in D. stage direction
general or of particular languages."
E. expletive
A. True
400. The scientific study of languages has
B. False led to linguists concluding that

390. C 391. A 392. C 393. C 394. B 395. C 396. D 397. A 398. D 399. B
400. A
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A. Primitive languages are no less sys- 407. According to Peirce, which are the3
tematic types of signs?
B. All dialects are not equally good
C. Certain languages are less system-
atic and structured
D. Certain dialects indicate the ge-
netic flaw of the users

401. How many morphemes are there in

the word ’intolerable’?
A. 1 A. Referent, Index & Signifier
B. 2 B. Icon, Signified & Referent
C. 3 C. Icon, Index & Symbol

D. 4 408. We use MUST for the things WE

THINK or FEEL that are NECES-
402. Nasal consonant? SARY.
A. w A. True
B. m B. False

C. o 409. Struktur gramatikal yang terdiri atas

P disebut dengan
403. In sociolinguistics, the social vari-
A. fungsi/unsur sintaktis
ables that influence speech are usually
B. frasa
A. personal variable
C. klausa
B. general variable
D. kalimat
C. group variable
410. What is a lexicon
D. stylistic variable
A. a website with a list of all known
404. I am fishing for bass.I play the bass words in the english language
instrument. B. a book that has more words than
a dictionary
A. Homonym
C. the mental capability to think of
B. Homophone
pictures that correspond to every
C. Homograph word you know
D. a mental dictionary residing in the
405. The room line is shorter.
brain that contains more information
A. mens about words than a published dictio-
B. men’s nary would be able to print

C. mens’ 411. Which term refers to any unit of lan-

guage with meaning?
406. ASL is a universal language A. morpheme
A. True B. phoneme
B. False C. lexis

401. C 402. B 403. A 403. B 404. C 405. B 406. B 407. C 408. A 409. C 410. D
411. A 412. B
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412. Holmes and Wilson (2017) suggested A. syntax
that standard forms carry connota- B. anaphora
tions of toughness and masculinity.
C. repetition
A. TRUE
D. loose/periodic sentence
B. FALSE
419. All of us have a large store of
413. The deciphering of the Rosetta Stone information- "everybody knows" that
allowed people to read and under- we apply to new situations and prob-
stand other ancient writings. lems: it usually reflects the simplest

er
A. Greek way of looking at things.
A. Prior Knowledge
B. Egyptian
B. Conventional Wisdom

gd
C. Latin
C. Senses
414. A particular form of a language
D. Experiences
which is peculiar to a specific region
420. It is defined as the study of meaning

an
A. social dialect
communicated through language.
B. diglossia
C. regional dialect
Ch
415. Which is spelled correctly?
A. pamphet
B. pamphlet
C. pamflet A. Linguistics
D. pamphlit B. Semantics
an

416. Which is spelled correctly? C. Sociolinguistics

A. chemist 421. is the first set of sounds (burping,

crying) that the infant (0-2 months)
B. chemest
ay

makes.
C. chemisst A. vegetative sounds
D. chimist B. cooing
r

417. In linguistics, the term is used to re- C. true babbling

fer to the rules or principles by which D. speech
Na

a language works, that is, its system

or structure. 422. What was the main economic activ-
ity of the Indigenous groups in Colom-
A. phonology bia?
B. syntax
C. grammar

418. a form of a regular repetition of the

same word or phrase at the beginning
of successive phrases or strategically
placed paragraphs

413. B 414. C 415. B 416. A 417. C 418. B 419. B 420. B 421. A 422. A
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A. Agriculture. 429. One of its qualities is?

B. Pottery. A. Ease of learning new languages
C. Knitting B. distracted

423. The following concepts were theo- C. none

rized by Ferdinand de Saussure D. all of the above
A. Diachronic axis 430. What is a metaphor?
B. Synchronic axis A. Using like or as as a descriptive
C. Asynchronic axis device.
D. Dual axis B. A word which describes a noun.
C. Saying something IS something
424. Which word below uses the sound of
else for description.
the IPA symbol [j]?
A. young 431. Which is spelled correctly?

B. jump A. stomak

C. man B. stomache

D. boy C. stomich
D. stomach
425. Which word is spelled correctly?
A. faythfully 432. Who is the father of literature?

B. feithfully A. A

C. faithfully B. B
C. C
426. According to Hart and Risley (1995),
the amount that parents speak to their D. D
children is not related to the variation 433. Who added a dynamic dimension to
in children’s IQ and language abilities. language structure through the use of
A. True transformations?
B. False A. Vinay Dharwadkar

427. How do you say "Am not" in short B. Chomsky

form? C. Labov
A. I’m D. Gumperz
B. Ain’t 434. Grammatical constructions play a
C. Am’I central role in the relation between
the form and meaning of simple sen-
D. I am tences (Goldberg 1995).
428. Morphology is
A. Sounds of words
B. Meaning of words
C. Structure of words
D. Origin of words

423. A 423. B 424. A 425. C 426. B 427. B 428. C 429. A 430. C 431. D 432. D
433. B 434. A 435. B
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A. true A. True
B. false B. False
435. lluvia 441. Linguistics help us to
A. hiato
A. 1.understand our world.
B. diptongo
B. 2.improving communiction be-
C. triptongo tween people .

er
436. Which side we speak? C. 3. One & two is right.
A. Left
442. When something is used to represent
B. Right something else

gd
437. How do you define linguistic? A. Symbolism
A. the system that regulated with B. Hyperbole
methodology of research
C. Euphemism

an
B. the scientific study about language
D. Pun

C. the term to explain the unique be- 443. Strategy for Linguistic Intelligence
havior
Ch
A. Calculation
D. the term to determine how fast
somebody talk B. Body Answers

438. It allows language users to commu- C. Storytelling

nicate about events or things that are
444. The students’ samples best illustrate
absent from the current environment.
a pattern of L1 interference in
It can cope with any subject no matter
an

how far away the topic of conversation

is in time and space.
A. DISPLACEMENT
ay

B. DUALITY
C. STRUCTURE DEPENDENCE
A. phonology.
439. Which of the following does not B. morphology.
r

stand for signifier?

C. semantics.
Na

A. Concept
D. syntax.
B. Word
C. Image 445. Which word is spelled correctly?
D. Sound A. pertrayal
E. Phonetic Component B. portrayal
440. Researchers have noted that some C. portrayel
mothers treat the burps or smiles of
their infants as though they are inten- 446. Ide Pokok di awal paragraf
tional messages. disebut

436. A 437. B 438. A 439. A 440. A 441. C 442. A 443. C 444. D 445. B 446. C
447. B
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A. Induktif A. May be
B. Induktif-Deduktif B. True
C. Deduktif C. False

D. Deduktif-Induktif 451. What is the study of language as

it pertains to social classes, ethnic
E. Konduktif
groups, and genders?
447. Morpheme is A. Psycholinguistics
A. A unit of measuring syllables in B. Comparative linguistics
poetry.
C. Sociolinguistics
B. The smallest unit of linguistic
D. Linguistics
meaning or function.
C. The largest unit of linguistic mean- 452. It defines how language should be
ing or function. used, and that mistakes result from
when those rules are broken.
D. The structure of vowel pronounca-
tion A. Prescriptivism
B. Descriptivism
448. It corresponds to the definition of
sentence meaning. 453. T/F: Word meanings are more or less
arbitrary and developed and evolved
by agreement
A. True
B. False

454. Which takes the added stress in a

word?
A. consonant
A. The meaning of a sentence in only B. vowel
one context.
C. syllable
B. The explanation of a word used
individually. 455. is used to ask about time. Select
the correct Wh-word for questions.
C. The meaning of an expression de-
termined by its component parts.

449. Brunch is an example of , which

combining parts of different words
into one.
A. Compounding
B. Blending
C. Clipping A. What
D. Back-formation B. When
C. Why
450. Humans acquire a language firstly
by LISTENING. D. Who

448. C 449. B 450. B 451. C 452. A 453. A 454. B 455. B 456. B

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456. Which ASL-gloss phrase below A. The image looks at the reader
would be the best ASL for "What is
B. The reader talks directly to the au-
your name?"?
thor
A. WHAT IS YOUR NAME Q
C. The characters talk to each other
B. YOU NAME WHAT Q
D. The author talks directly to the
C. NAME YOU WHAT Q reader
D. YOUR NAME WHAT Q
462. The smallest meaningful unit of lan-

er
457. when do children start forming ques- guage is known as a
tions? A. morpheme
A. s22-30 month B. phoneme

gd
B. 18-26 months C. word
C. 24-40 months D. syllable
458. Cultural differences have little effect

an
463. A term which refers to the sequential
on the way students learn. characteristics of language is called:
A. True
A. Paradigmatic
B. False
B. Synchrony
Ch
459. Bilingual speakers switching from C. Syntagmatic
one language to the other in the same
discourse D. Both A & B

A. creole 464. Which word is spelled correctly?

B. code-switching A. paynestakently
an

C. diglossia B. painstakingly
460. The connection of sensory modali- C. peinstakingly
ties in the understanding of informa-
465. The approach towards the language
ay

tion involves:
acquisition that the capacity for lan-
guage is innate in human beings is
said to be
r

A. Interactionism
Na

B. Mentalism
C. Behaviourism

466. An example of an allophone

A. Synaesthesia A. S - skit/sill
B. Metaphor B. T - table/water
C. Metonymy
C. V - very/every
D. Blending
467. What is NOT an example of an ASL
461. Direct address is when conversational Regulator?

457. B 458. B 459. B 460. A 461. D 462. A 463. C 464. B 465. B 466. B 467. E
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A. understand 473. What word is signed first in

ASL?Mrs. Cammel will never ever eat
B. oh i see
broccoli.
C. same
A. Broccoli
D. true
B. Mrs. Cammel
E. Ummm
C. Eat
468. We use HAVE TO for . D. Never Ever
A. ability E. Will
B. probability 474. Nama lain Sisipan
C. written laws / rules A. Infiks
D. necessities that come from the out- B. Sufiks
side.
C. Konfiks
469. A dialect of the language which is D. Afiks
used in press, education, media and
E. Prefiks
politics is referred to as
A. Standard dialect 475. Why can’t English be the unifying
language to unite all of mankind?
B. Nonstandard dialect
A. English is not a divine language
C. substandard dialect
B. English is not an international lan-
D. Super standard dialect guage
470. The Commission was appointed C. Not everyone speaks English
in 1983 to examine the language prob- D. If USA falls as a superpower, En-
lem in India. glish will be obsolete
A. Tarpore
476. In Darwin’s vision of the origins of
B. Roy language, humans developed musical
ability prior language
C. Tendulkar
A. to know each other
D. Sarkaria
B. to be kind with others
471. Homonyms and songs are two exam-
C. to charm each other
ples of activities that teachers can do
in the classroom to promote acquisi- D. to express mutual love
tion.
477. select the type of code-switching ob-
A. TRUE served in the following sentence: Creo
B. FALSE que ya terminaste, right?
A. Intrasentential code-switching
472. Ada buku di meja.Subjek kalimat di
atas adalah B. Tag switching or extrasentential

A. ada C. Intersentential code-switching

B. buku 478. The age of arrival of an individual

into a second language community
C. meja
will not affect the degree of native-like
D. di meja pronunciation ultimately attained.

468. C 468. D 469. A 470. D 471. A 472. B 473. A 474. A 475. D 476. C 477. B
478. A 478. B
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A. True 483. It’s the native speaker knowledge of
B. False his own language
A. Linguistic performance
479. Select the option that best describes
the following noun:an egg B. Linguistic competence
C. Micro linguistics
D. Neurolinguistics

484. What symbol means two English

er
words one ASL sign?
A. -
B. /

gd
C. +
D. =

A. Countable Noun E. #

an
B. Uncountable Noun 485. Which of the following statements is
primarily true about the relationship
480. The most developed field of applied
between a student’s first- and second-
linguistics is
language acquisition?
Ch
A. teaching and learning of foreign
A. Cognitive development in L1
languages
should be discontinued through the
B. neurolinguistics elementary years in order to achieve
C. forensic linguistics cognitive and academic success in L2.
D. clinical linguistics
B. Cognitive development in L1
an

481. The repetition of a consonant at the should be limited through the elemen-
beginning, middle, or end of words tary years in order to achieve cogni-
A. Consonance tive and academic success in L2.
B. Onomatopoeia C. Students who receive formal
ay

schooling in L1 do better at acquiring

C. Rhyme
L2 than students with no schooling in
D. Phoneme L1.
r

482. She D. Students who receive formal

schooling in L1 do worse at acquiring
Na

L2 than students with no schooling in

L1

486. Why do the researchers write a pro-

posal before doing a research?
A. So they can advertise their re-
search
A. can swim. B. To make sure they have the right
B. can sing. steps for the research
C. can write. C. To get their research funded

479. A 480. A 481. A 482. A 483. B 484. A 485. C 486. D

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D. To plan their study so that the re- 493. relative clause, except
search can go smoothly
A. the face that launched a thousand
487. What is an example of an inflec- ships was very beautiful
tional morpheme?
B. the cat which is lying on the mat
A. -er to form a comparative adjec- loves dogs
tive
C. the woman who sat beside me was
B. -ly to form an adverb from an ad- telling me the story of her life
jective
D. the old man hit the man with the
C. -ize to form a verb from a noun
wooden leg
D. -ic to form an adjective
494. Language is utilized for communica-
488. The affective filter hypothesis is an tion.
imaginary barrier that learners should
have high up to learn the target lan- A. TRUE
guage more easily and effectively. B. FALSE
A. TRUE
495. The structure of a language affects
B. FALSE
its speakers’ world view or cognition
489. Typical statement begins with a sub-
ject, followed by a verb and, where
applicable, an object of that verb.
A. ENGLISH
B. SPANISH
C. BOTH
D. NONE

490. Which is spelled correctly?

A. thrugh A. Languages in contact
B. through
B. Linguistic relativity
C. throu
C. Micro-sociolinguistics
D. throwgh
D. Multilingualism
491. In the English language inflectional
morphemes can be 496. Match the vocabulary word with
its corresponding definition.Electrical
A. Prefixes, Suffixes and Infixes
signals
B. Prefixes, Suffixes
C. Suffixes only
D. Infixes only

492. poeta
A. hiato
B. diptongo
C. triptongo

487. A 488. B 489. C 490. B 491. C 492. A 493. D 494. A 495. B

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A. An atom or molecule with a net A. Sandwich
electric charge due to the loss or gain B. Molecular who?
of one or more.
C. H2O
B. One of a great many medical
conditions that are characterized by D. NaCl
episodes of uncontrolled electrical ac-
501. The only reason for studying a lan-
tivity in the brain (seizures).
guage is to be able to communicate.
C. are transmitted between segments
A. True
of the axon by successive opening of

er
channels down the axonal membrane, B. False
with negative or positive charge.
502. Language occasionally change over-
497. In linguistic data samples of lan- time.

gd
guage is called : A. True
A. Corpse B. False
B. Lingua
503. Berikut ini yang bukan merupakan

an
C. Corpus alat komunikasi adalah
D. Canon A. bahasa
498. What do the following consonant B. gambar
pairs have in common: p,b; f,v; s,z
Ch
C. patung
A. The first is the unvoiced sound,
D. simbol
and the second is voiced.
B. The first is the voiced sound, and 504. What is a consciousness-raising
the second is the unvoiced. task?

C. The first is the stressed consonant, A. It’s when students are given infor-
an

and the second is unstressed. mation about a construction without

giving them the full picture of it.
D. The first is the unstressed conso-
nant, and the second is the stressed. B. It’s when students consult informa-
tion online.
499. Read the following statement and
ay

C. It’s when the student’s job consists

answer whether it is true or
in introducing a grammatical general-
false."Phonology is the study of the
ization from the data they are given.
form of words and phrases."
r

A. True
D. It’s a task that serves both as a
Na

B. False cognitive tool and as a means of com-

500. What is the molecular structure of munication to promote grammatical
table salt? development.

505. Language is what distinguishes hu-

man beings from other animals.
While many animals have codes of
communication, these differ in impor-
tant ways from human language.
A. True
B. False

496. C 497. C 498. A 499. B 500. D 501. A 502. B 503. C 504. C 505. A
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506. Seorang guru meminta muridnya A. "j" as in judge

untuk menganalisis unsur-unsur kali-
B. "ch" as i cheese
mat. Berarti guru tersebut sedang
menerapkan aliran C. "y" as in yes
A. tradisional 512. The theory ’speech is essential for
B. struktural thought’ states

C. transformasi A. thought is a kind of behavior that

originates from speech production
D. fungsional
B. thought is the basic for speech pro-
507. What does Ix in ASL glossing mean? duction
A. Verb C. speech production is the basis for
B. Adjective speaking

C. Noun D. human speaks on the basis of

thought
D. Pointing
E. human speaks on the basis of
E. Negative
speech perception
508. The relationships between elements
513. At which stage teachers of ELLs need
that can substitute each other in the
to proactively provide relevant con-
same position of linguistic structure
tent - based literacy experience like
are called
journaling and log writing?
A. syntactic relations
A. The preproduction stage
B. syntagmatic relations
B. The early production stage
C. kinship relations
C. The speech emergence
D. paradigmatic relations
D. The intermediate fluency
509. At which stage , ELLS may have in-
ternalized up to 1,000 words in their 514. When we analyze every single word
receptive vocabulary and anything in a sentence, how do we say that?
from 100 to 500 word in their active A. Tree diagram
vocabulary?
B. sentence mapping
A. The preproduction stage
C. Drawing
B. The early production stage
D. Sentence analyzing
C. The speech emergence stage
515. Freddie is a 10-year-old boy with
D. The intermediate fluency stage
a mental age of 12. according to
510. If you do not look at a person sign- the scoring of the Stanford-Binet test,
ing to you it is considered what? Freddie’s intelligence quotient score is
A. the polite thing to do. A. 12
B. ignoring them. B. 83
C. nosey. C. 95
D. the Deaf thing to do. D. 120

511. /j/ is the sound 516. Which is spelled correctly?

506. B 507. D 508. D 509. B 510. B 511. C 512. A 513. D 514. A 515. D 516. A
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A. although 522. Giving inanimate objects human
qualities
B. althogh
C. althaugh A. linear structure
D. althoug
B. metaphor
517. When it comes to language acquisi-
tion intelligence does not determine C. imagery
success.
D. personification

er
A. TRUE
B. FALSE 523. Which words describes the language
in use?
518. No one can understand the word

gd
’cheese’ unless he has a A. Pragmatics
A. Heard cheese
B. Phonology
B. Non linguistic acquaintance with

an
cheese". C. Morphology
C. Read the word. D. Lexicon
D. None of the above
524. Lexicon is
Ch
519. Tense and lax vowels relate to
A. phonetics. A. a pairing between a form and a
sound
B. phonology.
C. stress. B. arbitrary relationship between the
meaning and the sound
D. UG.
an

520. A vowel is a sound in which the C. our mental dictionary of all the
from the is not in any way in words we know
the the mouth or throat.
D. universal capacity to learn new
words
ay

525. Spring is my favorite season of the

year.
r
Na

A. stream / mouth / unblocked

B. airstream / blocked / lungs
C. stream / lungs / unblocked
D. aistream / lungs / blocked

521. I doing homework.

A. don’t like
A. A coil of metal that bounces.
B. liking
C. like B. A season.

517. A 518. B 519. A 520. D 521. A 522. D 523. A 524. C 525. B

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526. When signing numbers 1-5 your

palm is

A. Low-Context
B. High-Context

529. Productivity refers to

A. a process whereby language is
passed on from one generation to the
next
A. up B. ability to produce language in mul-
B. out tiple forms

C. sideways C. the human ability to combine lim-

ited linguistic signs to produce new
D. in sentences and expressions
E. doesn’t matter D. human language is composed of
sets of distinct sounds
527. Match the vocabulary word with its
corresponding definition.Channel pro- 530. Which of the following is the defini-
tein tion research objective?
A. To review the literature
B. To summarize what is already
known
C. To get an academic degree
D. To state the purpose of the re-
A. An organ or cell able to respond search
to light, heat, or other external stimu-
lus and transmit a signal to a sensory 531. "She said ’Ain’t no sunshine’ - how
nerve. interesting! Let’s see why she speaks
like this" is what would be said by:
B. A channel protein is a special ar-
rangement of amino acids which em- A. a prescriptivist
beds in the cell membrane, providing B. a descriptivist
a hydrophilic passageway for water
and small, polar ions. 532. The study of reference can be di-
vided into which two areas
C. One of a great many medical
conditions that are characterized by A. prototype
episodes of uncontrolled electrical ac- B. speaker reference
tivity in the brain (seizures).
C. linguistic reference
528. Skype video calls would be a good D. coreference
method of communication for a
speaker. 533. A definition of Linguistics could be

526. D 527. B 528. B 529. C 530. D 531. B 532. B 532. C 533. B

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A. scientific study of speech A. The surgical knife was a wand.
B. scientific study of human nature of B. Closes his eyes like a two year old.
language
C. scientific study of grammar and C. The surgical knife danced across
sounds the wound.

534. which one is the "subject" from the 539. Formal and informal style differs in
sample of analysis above? A. the choice of phonology, vocabu-

er
lary and syntax
B. vocabulary only
C. pronunciation only

gd
540. Denotation is:
A. The literal or primary meaning of
a word
A. which is lying on the mat

an
B. The feeling, ideas and cultural
B. the cat meanings which are associated with
the word
C. loves
C. Any motion, gesture, image that
Ch
D. dogs
conveys the meaning and communi-
cates
535. handkerchief means
A. fazzoletto 541. Elemen dari semantik adalah

B. tovagliolo A. Tanda, Acuan dan Makna

B. Tanda, Intonasi dan Makna
C. guanto
an

C. Tulisan, Acuan dan Makna

536. It refers to the acoustic image, or the
graphic representation D. Tanda, Acuan dan Ucapan

A. Linguistic sign 542. A school should reflect and sanction

ay

the range of languages and dialects

B. Signifier spoken by the students.
C. Signified A. True
r

D. Icon B. False
Na

537. It involves attempting to combine 543. Each of the symbols represents a sin-
neurological/neurophysiological the- gle type of sound
ory with linguistics theory.
A. Phonetics
A. Psycholinguistics B. Alphabetic writing
B. Neurolinguistics C. Rebus writing
C. Sociolinguistics D. Syllabic writing
D. Historical Linguistics E. Morpheme

538. Identify the simile 544. Which is spelled correctly?

534. B 535. A 536. B 537. B 538. B 539. A 540. A 541. A 542. A 543. B 544. D
60 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

A. alphebet A. 4
B. alfabet B. 7
C. alphabit C. 6
D. alphabet
550. Linguistics focuses on
545. Humor is hard to learn in a foreign
A. the study of world languages
language because it is:
B. the rules and conventions of lan-
guage
C. English phonetics
D. the scientific study of language

551. Connotation is:

A. The literal or primary meaning
A. Connected to specific cultural B. Not the literal meaning
things
C. The concept that a signifier refers
B. Mostly Political
to
C. Dynamic and Fleeting
552. A teacher transcribes the following
D. Inappropriate
from a student’s presentation:"For this,
546. When we say "BICS" we mean uh, holiday, my mother, uh, my mom,
she go to the store and buy many spe-
A. Basic Interpersonal Communica- cial fruits for family. We prepares the
tive Skills fruits for salad, uh, and for dessert,
B. Basic Intellectual Concept Studies we makes many things with fruits. My
father grill, uh, grills, meat for all the
C. Behaving Crazily In School family. My brother play special songs
547. Part of Speech: a word to describe a on piano. We all has happy time."
noun The student could benefit from some
practice with which of the following?
A. Adjective
A. object pronouns
B. Adverb
B. adverbs
C. Pronoun
C. subject-verb agreement
D. Proposition
D. diagnostic assessment
548. Globalization, how many morpheme
that include in that word? 553. When Kate got to the Grand Canyon,
A. 3 she and her brother had fun yelling
and hearing their return to them.
B. 2
A. echo
C. 1
B. antique
D. 4
C. charisma
549. How many cats does the teacher
have? D. character

545. A 546. A 547. A 548. D 549. B 550. D 551. B 552. C 553. A

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554. Match the vocabulary word with its A. memorize
corresponding definition.Epilepsy
B. imitate
C. practice
D. remember

558. How are languages that come from

basically the same source categorized?
A. dialects

er
B. families
A. are transmitted between segments
of the axon by successive opening of C. syntax
channels down the axonal membrane,

gd
D. semantics
with negative or positive charge.
559. sentences that seem to be anoma-
B. A neurological disorder marked by
lous but are understood in terms of
sudden recurrent episodes of sensory
meaningful concept
disturbance, loss of consciousness, or

an
convulsions, associated with abnormal A. metaphors
electrical activity in the brain. B. contradictions
C. atom or molecule with a net elec- C. metonyms
tric charge due to the loss or gain of
Ch
D. tautologies
one or more.
D. is a special arrangement of amino 560. The characteristic of linguistics (
acids which embeds in the cell mem- A. have a subject matter
brane, providing a hydrophilic pas-
B. produces careful objective descrip-
sageway for water and small, polar
tions
ions.
an

C. make generalization
555. Melodrama
D. make empowerment toward the so-
A. heightened sense of drama ciety
B. repeating capital letters
ay

561. This is a morpheme that is placed at

C. questioning readers the beginning of a word
D. emotional response A. a prefix
r

B. a suffix
556. The subclassification of inflect-
C. a root
Na

ing languages according to August

Schlegel is D. a morpheme
A. Synthetic and Analytic
562. "Chewing, licking and sucking are
B. Synchronic and Diachronic mammalian activities" This quotation
is associated with the theory
C. Signifier and Signified
A. Tool-making source
D. Langue and Parole
B. Physical adaptation source
557. Before language performance can be-
C. Genetic source
come automatic, learners are required
to D. Social interaction source

554. B 555. A 556. A 557. C 558. B 559. A 560. A 560. B 560. C 561. A 562. B
62 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

563. Morphemes that represent tense, A. True

number, gender and case are called
morphemes. B. False

569. There are physical features, as par-

tial adaptations, which appear to be
relevant for speech.

A. Teeth, lips, mouth, larynx and

pharynx

B. The tool-making source

C. The social interaction source

D. The physical adaptation source

A. inflectional 570. To form 3rd person singular in verbs,

inflectional morpheme -s or its varia-
B. free
tions are used.
C. bound
A. true
D. derivational
B. false
564. According to Saussure the concrete
use of the language that each individ- 571. Two lines that rhyme together are
ual has, corresponds to called a
A. Langage A. couplet
B. Langue
B. limerick
C. Parole
C. poem
D. Diachrony
D. rhyme scheme
565. Zero morpheme is:
A. Sheep (sing.) - Sheep (plural) 572. Calque refers to

B. Dog (sing.) - Dogs (plural) A. Words borrowed from another lan-

guage.
566. it has to be limited
B. Words borrowed from cognate lan-
A. NO
guage.
B. YES
C. Words borrowed from another lan-
567. The short form of "going to" is guage by a literal translation.
A. Goes
573. Jean-Francois Champollion could
B. Going read both: and
C. Go A. Greek and Coptic
D. Gonna
B. Coptic and Arabic
568. In actual speech, these [t] sounds are C. Greek and latin
all different.*[th] in tar, [t] in star and
[D] in the word water. D. Coptic and Italian

563. A 564. C 565. A 566. A 567. D 568. A 569. D 570. A 571. A 572. C 573. A
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574. The sign "Oh-I-see" is an ASL ex- 578. Social places where cultures meet, of-
pression that conveys all of the follow- ten in contexts of highly asymmetrical
ing, except relations of power, such as colonial-
ism, slavery , etc.

er
gd
A. Pragmalinguistic
B. Sociolinguistics
A. comprehension C. Speech community
B. sympathy D. Contact zones

an
C. concern
579. What is defined as the study of sen-
D. confusion tence structure’?
575. American Sign Language is used by A. Morphology
Ch
most Deaf people in which of the fol- B. Phonology
lowing countries:
C. Semantics
A. Canada and United States
D. Syntax
B. United States and Mexico
580. These are written to help people
C. Mexico and England learn a foreign language or a dialect
an

D. England and Brazil of their own language.

576. The Mughal Empire of India did not A. Descriptive grammars

succeed in propagating Islam among B. Teaching grammars
its people due to
C. mental grammars
ay

A. Not delving into a deeper Islamic D. Prescriptive grammars

thought
581. What type of phrase is "for a mo-
B. People of India were not receptive
ment"
r

of Islam
A. Verb
Na

C. using Persian as the language of

Islam B. Noun
D. Using Arabic as their national lan- C. Adverbial
guage
582. what are the three criteria based on
577. I to a restaurant. which vowel sounds are classified?
A. would like to go A. Part of the tongue raised, the
height to which the tongue is raised
B. would like to talk
and the position of lips
C. to go would like B. state of glottis, place of articulation
D. go would like and manner of articulation

574. D 575. A 576. C 577. A 578. D 579. D 580. B 581. C 582. A

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583. Fluke (A stroke of luck) and Fluke 589. Complete the following sentence
(The end parts of an anchor) with the correct words.I eat at
A. homophone A. dinner/night
B. homonym B. breakfast/night

C. homograph C. lunch/morning

590. The mutual intelligibility of lan-

584. Ibu sedang memasak ketika saya
guages or refers to a variety of a lan-
datang dan ayah makan.Berapa jum-
guage that is a characteristic of a par-
lah klausa pada kalimat tersebut?
ticular group of the language’s speak-
A. satu ers.
B. dua A. Dialect
C. tiga B. Pidgin
D. empat C. Creole

585. A variant of a morpheme 591. Traditional grammar teaching con-

sists of
A. allomorph
A. Presentation
B. allophone
B. Practice and communication
C. allo?
C. Presentation, practice, production
D. alloy
592. Match the vocabulary word with its
586. What is the name of processes which corresponding definition.Receptors
change the deep structure into surface
structure?
A. transformations
B. transportation
C. transmutations
D. translations
A. is a special arrangement of amino
587. Friction wears away the treads on a acids which embeds in the cell mem-
tire after miles of driving. Physical or brane, providing a hydrophilic pas-
chemical change? sageway for water and small, polar
A. Chemical change ions.

B. Physical change B. An organ or cell able to respond

to light, heat, or other external stimu-
588. properties that are part of the word lus and transmit a signal to a sensory
meanings and reflect our knowledge nerve.
of what the words mean C. An atom or molecule with a net
A. situational truths electric charge due to the loss or gain
of one or more.
B. syntactic features
593. The associative meaning of a word
C. semantic features
depends on cultursal context and per-
D. phrasal constituents sonal associations

583. B 584. C 585. A 586. A 587. B 588. C 589. A 590. A 591. C 592. B
593. A 594. A
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A. True 599. Linguistic stydies:
B. False A. Human language
594. I buy my girlfriend some flowers. B. Human behavor
A. must C. Human body
B. have to 600. The next stage of my journey lay
595. Simple, compound, complex or across a short stretch of the China
compound-complex: Lonely dogs Sea, but I was worried. It could

er
bark at night. still be long enough to encounter the
pirates I had heard about. Down
A. Compound at the harbour I asked one of the
B. Complex seamen there how long my journey

gd
would take.’About three days,’ he
C. Simple
replied.Three days? It seemed an
596. Linguistics is the age while dodging pirates, but the
map showed that this was a reason-
A. Scientific and systematic study of
able length of time.Qn. The author

an
the systems and principles underlying
says the journey seemed an ’age while
language.
dodging pirates’. Explain what the
B. Scientific and systematic study of word in italics tell you about his fears
speech sounds in general. for the journey. (2m)
Ch
C. Scientific study of arrangement of
speech sounds in language.
D. Scientific and systematic study of
language in use
597. In , the context of the situa-
an

tion and the communication between A. The author was very worried of
speaker and listener are important be- the pirates.
yond the meaning of the words and
B. The author was worried about the
phrases.
journey of three days.
ay

A. linguistic competence
C. The author was worried that three
B. pragmatics days seemed like a long time to avoid
C. Cognitive Academic Language the pirates.
Proficiency (CALP) D. The author was worried that the
r

D. phoenetics journey across the China sea was a

Na

long one.
598. is exhibited when a child 5 uses
’Bubby’ (the family’s baby talk word 601. Putting the subject in the beginning
for his brother) to refer first to his of the sentence like "My mom quickly
brother then to his 3 year old boy ran through the store" is an example
cousin and the little boy next door. of
A. underextension A. Syntax
B. categorical overextension B. Lexicon
C. associative overextension C. Semantics
D. analogical overextension D. Morphology

595. C 596. A 597. B 598. B 599. A 600. C 601. A

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602. Immigrants are in the US to stay. A. ate

The best thing teachers can do is to
B. eat
help them assimilate.
C. act
A. True
D. ask
B. False
609. In a particular regional accent
603. In the 19th century language was of
interest of A. Utterance
A. Linguists B. sentence
B. Philosophers C. proposition
C. all society 610. Morpheme is the unit of :
604. Older learners receive far less expo- A. Phonetics
sure to the language they are learning B. Morphology
A. True C. Syntx
B. False D. Semantics
605. What replaces the term "I am" in 611. The word Latin word "lingua" means
ASL?
A. Tongue
A. A shake of the head.
B. Mouth
B. A nod of the head.
C. Roof of the mouth
C. A wink.
D. Lungs
D. A hand wave.
612. Gender of the speaker could override
606. Ethnography of communication con- social class differences in accounting
cerns on for speech patterns.
A. the effect of social and cultural
A. TRUE
variables on linguistic behaviour
B. FALSE
B. the effect of individual and social
variables on linguistic behaviour 613. Eye contact, head nods, and signs
C. the effect of historical and cultural like "Oh I see" are all considered:
variables on linguistic behaviour A. Non-manual signals
D. the effect of social and historical B. The five parameters
variables on linguistic behaviour
C. Active listening behaviors
607. % of the population is multilin- D. Closing signals
gual
614. Who discovered it
A. 50 %
A. Laura Hernandez
B. 40%
B. Howard Granados
C. 18%
C. Howard Gardner
D. 60%
D. Sandi Aguirre
608. What can be an example of a bound
morpheme? 615. Free morphemes are

602. B 603. B 604. A 605. B 606. A 607. D 608. A 609. A 610. B 611. A 612. A
613. C 614. C
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A. Morphemes that cannot stand A. Is the non-continual and never-
alone as a word, and must be attached changing use and definition of words
to a free morpheme in informal conversation, often using
references as a means of comparison
B. Words or morphemes that keep the
or showing likeness.
same form every time used and are
unchangeable, including conjunctions B. Informal verbal communication
that is generally unacceptable for for-
mal writing
C. Words that are made up of only

er
one morpheme and can stand alone C. Jargon and made up words from a
as an English word foreign land.
D. Complete disregard of the english
616. The study of the structure of phrases language by using formal words in a

gd
and sentences proper setting.
A. Phonology 621. What is a concordancer programme?
B. Morphology A. a dance course taken with a part-

an
C. Syntax ner
B. a programme analysing concord
D. Semantics
areoplanes
617. The study of the literal meaning of C. a programme analysing language
Ch
words students
A. Semantics D. a programme analysing word pat-
terns
B. Pragmatics
622. Neuro refers to
C. Figurative Language
an

D. Linguistics

618. The branch of linguistics related to

the human mind is psycholinguistic.
ay

A. false
B. true
A. the process of thinking
619. In the nineteenth century languages B. our brain and our physiology
r

were compared with a view to deter-

C. our behavior
Na

mining their exact genetic relation-

ships and to reconstructing the proto- 623. Linguistics structure deals with
language from which the attested lan-
guages of a family derived. This A. how we are able to acquire/learn a
branch of linguistics is called: language
B. where languages come from
A. Comparative linguistics
C. why/how languages change
B. Contrastive linguistics
D. how our brain puts sentences to-
C. Comparative philology gether

620. Slang 624. The RIGHT brain is responsible for:

615. C 616. C 617. A 618. B 619. C 620. B 621. D 622. B 623. D 624. A 624. C
624. E
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A. visual images A. Sounds in relation to regional lan-

guage dialects.
B. logic and order/ pattern perception
B. The sub-field of linguistics that
C. recognizing faces studies structure and systematic pat-
tering of sounds in human language
D. verbal information (language and
speech)
C. The study of word sounds and the
E. reading and expressing feelings development of language arts.
and emotions
D. is the study of how sounds are
625. Which is spelled correctly? used in natural languages in North
A. chaos America.

B. choas 631. Why did the use of Persian Language

not help Islam’s propagation in India?
C. chasos
D. kaos A. It was a very difficult language to
master
626. When you say, "Could you repeat
B. It was not Arabic, the true lan-
please?" you express this function of
guage of Islam
language:
C. It was spoken by less than 1% of
A. informative
the population
B. directive
D. Persian language could not be Is-
C. emotive lamized
D. phatic
632. Normally, is used for educational
E. metalinguistic context for people who wants to learn
English as the second language.
627. Sociolinguistics studies
A. The language as a human faculty
B. The branches of linguistics
C. The relationship between language
and society

628. In the vocal tract, speech starts with

the which push air out (carbon
dioxide) and pull it in (oxygen(
A. Lungs
B. Stomach
C. Trachea A. Language Planning

629. All vowels are voiced B. Diglossia

A. True C. The Standard Language

B. False D. The Impromptu Language

630. Phonology 633. write, right, rite

625. A 626. B 627. C 628. A 629. A 630. B 631. C 632. C 633. B

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A. Homonym A. the Natural sound source
B. Homophone B. the Physical adaptation source
C. Homograph C. the Divine source
D. the Genetic source
634. Correct the Sentence: Do you play
piano? 639. The exact meaning, true to fact
A. Do you play piano? The is not A. Literal
used with titled names B. Connotation

er
B. Do you play piano? Do not use C. Denotation
"the" with a plural count noun when D. Synonym
you’re making a generalization

gd
640. The notion that human beings are
C. Do you play the piano? "The" is born with the features that are com-
commonly used with singular generic mon to languages generally hardwired
count nouns, such as instruments. into their minds is said to be
635. What early Christian belief halted A. Schema

an
progress of linguistics? B. Competence
A. English was spoken in the heavens C. Universal Grammar
641. In 1822 French scholar Jean Francois
Ch
B. Hebrew is the mother of all lan- Champollion cracked the code of hi-
guages eroglyphics because he could read
C. Christian language is the language A. German
of God
B. Chinese
D. The first language spoken is Latin C. Spanish
an

636. Which is spelled correctly? D. Greek

A. tough 642. The youngs gramarians Leipzig
B. tuff A. claimed that langiuage cjange is
regular
ay

C. taugh
B. the change affect occurences of the
D. tugh same sound in similar phonetic sur-
roundings
637. Clause
r

C. Today alla those changes have

A. A word that only contain a subject. been modified
Na

D. all the previous answers

B. A word that only contains a predi-
cate. 643. Philippine regional literature can be
BEST described as
C. A group of words that do not con-
tain a subject or predicate. A. Dynamic
B. Spoken
D. A group of words containing a sub-
ject and predicate C. Outdated
D. Traditional
638. A computer being pre-programmed
is an example of? 644. Write the correct plural form:tooth

634. C 635. B 636. A 637. D 638. D 639. A 640. C 641. D 642. D 643. A
644. B
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A. tooths A. Euphemisms
B. teeth B. Dysphemisms
C. teeths C. Optimisms

645. Read the following statement and D. Antonymies

answer whether it is true or false."The
650. Formality is a social dimension in
difference between a sentence and ut-
communication that indicates
terance is that while a sentence con-
veys a complete meaning through a A. the amount of information being
combination of clauses, an utterance shared in a discourse.
conveys a meaning through a few B. the social ranking
words that may not even compile a
clause." C. the style of speaking, presence or
absences of colloquial/slang in a per-
A. True son’s communication.
B. False
D. how well we know someone
646. Strategy for developing logical-
651. -ing clauses with a subject are also
mathematical.
used to express time relationship even
A. Classifications though no subordinators are used.
B. visualization A. True
C. Idea sketching B. False
647. Accents are not determined by 652. Syntax is the study of
where we are born, but other factors
A. sound structure
as well.
B. sentence structure
A. entirely
C. word structure
B. notably
D. clause structure
C. identifiable

648. Human communication is stimulus- 653. Which is spelled correctly?

bound while animal is not. A. daughter
A. True B. doughter
B. False C. dawter
649. Indirect expressions that are used in D. dawghter
exchange of words or phrases that are
654. to, too, two are examples of what
considered inappropriate.
A. Homonym
B. Homophone
C. Homograph

655. In ASL grammar time signs go at

the end of the sentence.
A. True
B. False

645. A 646. A 647. A 648. B 649. A 650. C 651. B 652. B 653. A 654. B 655. B
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656. There are 8 diphthongs and they A. count nouns
can be classified in
B. noncount nouns
C. pronouns

661. More than one variant, which can

realize some morphemes according to
the position in a word, are termed
.

er
gd
A. opening and closing

an
B. central and closing A. phonemes
C. closing and centring B. allomorphs
D. opening and mid C. morphs
Ch
D. phones
657. To sign the concept of "or" in ASL,
one should 662. "Her fragile figure glowed in the sun
A. fingerspell "or" like a halo."Select ALL the linguistic
devices used in the above sentence.
B. use the sign "or"
A. Alliteration
an

C. sign "what"
B. Metaphor
D. sign "which" C. Imagery
658. Which is spelled correctly? D. Simile
ay

A. triumph 663. Select the correct form of regular

plural for the folowing noun:grass
B. trumph
A. grasss
r

C. triumphe
B. grasses
D. triamph
Na

664. The genetic source explains

659. Which is spelled correctly?
A. the natural sounds
A. orchestra
B. the human behavior
B. orckestra C. the innateness hypothesis
C. orcestra
665. Only mammals have systems of com-
D. orchistra munication.
A. True
660. Chair, sugar, book are examples of
B. False

656. C 657. D 658. A 659. A 660. A 661. B 662. A 662. C 662. D 663. B
664. C 665. B 666. D
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666. What are the components of gram- D. A word formed by combining the
mar: initial letters of a series or related
words.
A. phonology
B. semantics 672. Complete the following sentence
with the daily rountines vocabulary.
C. syntaxt I my hair.
D. all of the above A. comb
667. The concerns of factors which make B. paint
a text relevant to a situation of occur- C. cut
rence is?
673. Other phonemes do not involved the
A. Intertextuality vocal cords and there is no vibration,
B. Situationality such as the consonants h, t, s, p, k, l,
and f are called
C. Intentionality
A. Unvoiced
D. Text
B. bilabial
668. Harvey will his boat by naming C. voiced
it after his mother.
D. nasal
A. christen
674. What is the study of the structure of
B. chronicle phrases and sentences?
C. schooner A. Phonology
D. chemist B. Morphology
669. True or False:A suffix will never ap- C. Syntax
pear at the end of a word. D. Semantics
A. True 675. Flower - rose - red rose Flower is . .
B. False .
A. homonymy
670. Using words or letters to imitate
sounds B. hypernym
A. Alliteration C. co-hyponym

B. Onomatopoeia 676. Which is spelled correctly?

C. Imagery A. choir
D. Simile B. chior
C. ckoir
671. Acronym
D. coir
A. A word that is created by adding
intial letters to the beginning and end 677. In the twentieth century, linguists in-
of a word. terested in comparing languages in
a new kind of discipline in which
B. A word formed by adding the intial
the structures of two present-day lan-
letters of to a sentence.
guages were compared. This was the
C. A word deleted by addition of let- birth of the discipline which is now
ters and numbers. termed:

667. B 668. A 669. B 670. B 671. D 672. A 673. A 674. C 675. B 676. A 677. B
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A. Comparative linguistics A. bowels
B. Contrastive linguistics B. brain

C. Comparative philology C. heart

D. stomach
678. Make the word possessive: Thomas
683. A linguistic school founded on the
A. Thomas’
idea that there was no ideal type of
B. Thomas’es language and thus human languages

er
are of great diversity is
C. Thoma’s
A. Descriptivist
679. What should a Muslim Linguist do? B. Behaviourist

gd
A. Internationally coordinate lan- C. Structuralist
guage convergence
D. Junggrammatiker
B. Promote Arabic Pan-Islamically as
a medium of instruction 684. At which stage , ELLs are able to

an
comprehend more English than they
C. Conduct a Linguistic survey across can produce?
the Muslim world
A. The Preproduction stage
D. Unify and standardize Arabic writ-
B. The early production stage
Ch
ing adaptation
C. The speech emergence stage
680. When using the present perfect,
D. The intermediate stage
"for" is used with a length of time,
two months, three years 685. What is it
A. true A. ability to handle and structure the
meanings and functions of words and
an

B. false
language
681. It refers to the concept and a sound B. An illness
(or a series of sounds. concept, the
C. One condition
meaning.
ay

D. A disease that people are born

A. Linguistic Sign
with because of something the mother
B. Signified did when she was pregnant with the
child
r

C. Signier
686. Which word is spelled correctly?
Na

D. Icon
A. proclaimed
682. This is the Select the correct vo-
B. procleimed
cabulary word: Organs of the body.
C. proclaymend

687. I urged my raft into the swollen river.

The lightning revealed a swirling mass
of water, herding trees along in its
rushing current. I knew it would be
impossible to steer round them; the
speeding water would be too much for

678. A 679. A 679. B 679. C 679. D 680. A 681. B 682. B 683. A 684. A
685. A 686. B
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me. I would have to try to bump and A. Simile

nudge my raft past them. Qn. The B. Foreshadowing
river is ’herding’ fallen trees along in
its current. What picture does the C. Alliteration
author create by using the word ’herd- D. Personification
ing’? (1m)
691. "One of the founders of the field of
cognitive science"
A. Ferdinand de Saussure
B. Franz Bopp
C. Noam Chomsky

692. Identify the type of phrase: The

small children played in the yard.
A. The author wanted to show how
the river gathered the trees. A. adverb phrase

B. The author wanted to show how B. noun phrase

herds of cattle fell in the river. C. prepositional phrase
C. The author wanted to show the 693. I . jump very high.
speed of the river.
A. am
D. The author wanted to show how B. can
he herd the trees across the river.
C. have
688. Evi : you join the excursion in
694. Psycholinguistics discuss about
Bandung last year?Eko: Yes. I really
enjoyed the trip. A. Language perception

A. Do B. Language production
C. Acquisition
B. Did
D. All of the above
C. Are
695. Mental Age and Language Age are
D. Were equivalent terms.
689. "The lake was left shivering after the A. True
gentle touch of the morning breeze, as B. False
the morning sun tinged the sky a pale
pink."Select all the linguistic devices 696. In logic and semantics tautology
used in the above sentence. refers to

A. Alliteration A. repetition of the same concept us-

ing synonyms
B. Imagery
B. paraphrasing of the original
C. Personification thought
D. Simile C. sentences that are always true
D. sentences that are always false
690. Which linguistic device can be used
to give prose and poetry rhythm and 697. three major functions of code-
pace? switching. These functions are

687. A 688. B 689. A 689. B 689. C 690. C 691. C 692. B 693. B 694. D
695. B 696. C 697. C
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A. The linguistic, the cultural and the E. The student has a near-native level
phonological. of speech.
B. The social, the syntactic and mor- 701. Is grounded or in rooted in anthro-
phological. pology?
C. The social, the linguistic and the A. American structuralism
psychological.
B. Structural linguistics
698. Adding the ending "ing" to the
C. European structuralism
words swing is an example of

er
A. Semantics 702. Which word is spelled correctly?

B. Morphology A. reignproof
B. rainproof

gd
C. Lexicon
D. Phonology C. rienproof

699. A definition on language states "lan- 703. The following are examples of non-
guage is a system of arbitrary vocal verbal communication

an
symbols used for human communica- A. haptics
tion".The term ’system’ implies that
B. body gestures
language must be
C. eye contact
A. clear
Ch
D. facial expression
B. systematic
C. sounds 704. What is pragmatics?
D. verbal A. Communicates distance and non-
familiarity. Also, it has an ironic or
700. Choose the correct answer.Early Pro- humorous purpose.
an

duction Stage
B. When speakers mark how close or
distant something is perceived to be.
C. Studies how people make sense of
each other linguistically or based on
ay

contextual meaning.
D. Forms used to point to the location
in time.
r

705. How many kinds of syntax?

Na

A. 4
A. Has good comprehension. Can
B. 5
produce simple sentences.
C. 3
B. Has minimal comprehension. Does
not verbalize. D. 2
C. Has limited comprehension. Pro- 706. We friends.
duces one- or two-word responses.
A. am
D. The studentHas excellent compre-
B. is
hension. Makes few grammatical er-
rors. C. are

698. B 699. B 700. C 701. A 702. B 703. A 703. B 703. C 703. D 704. C 705. D
706. C 707. A
76 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

707. What is the name of the scientific A. City

study of language - analysis of form, B. Animal
meaning, and context?
C. Ocean
A. linguistics
D. River
B. psychology
E. Country
C. neurolinguistics
713. Multilingual learners benefit from in-
D. cognitive science
struction provided by educators who
708. what is semantics? understand second language peda-
gogy and have knowledge of special
A. Semantics is the ideal meaning in educational practices
human communication
A. Strongly Agree
B. Semantics is the study of meaning
in context B. Agree

C. Semantics is the branch of linguis- C. Disagree

tics and logic concerned with meaning D. Strongly Disagree

709. Spot the command: 714. Istilah kata benda, kata kerja, dan
kata sifat terdapat pada aliran
A. I think you’d really like Spain.
A. tradisional
B. You should think about going to
Spain B. struktural
C. Have you ever been to Spain? C. transformasional
D. You must go to Spain. D. fungsional

710. The organization of language into 715. In what way, a corpus is regarded as
two layers: a layer of sounds which suitable for analysis?
combine into a second layer of larger A. it has to be authentic (real lan-
units. Each phoneme is meaningless guage use)
in isolation, but in the proper combi-
B. it must be 1 text only
nation it can perfectly become mean-
ingful. C. It must not have language errors
A. PATTERNING 716. This perspective means that lan-
guage is studied at a specific point
B. ARBITRARINESS
in time.
C. DUALITY
A. Synchrony
711. This study belongs to Microlinguis- B. Diachrony
tics.
C. Duality
A. Language Teaching
D. Arbitrariness
B. Phonetics
717. This quiz is based on Holmes and
C. Sociolinguistics Wilson (2017), p. 175 - 183. Click
D. Semantics ’noted’ after you have read this state-
ment.
712. If you rearrange the letters
"CIFAIPC" you would have the name A. Noted
of a(n): B. Why is this option here?

708. C 709. D 710. C 711. D 712. C 713. A 714. A 715. A 716. A 717. A 718. B
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718. Three ways of interpreting a verbal 723. Which answers are Prefixes? (choose
sign are more than one)
A. Verbal, non-verbal and oral
B. Other signs of same language, into
other language, nonverbal system of
symbols
C. Verbal, non-verbal and written
D. None above

er
719. Where you from? A. pro
A. are B. ure

gd
B. am C. logy
C. is D. pre
720. What is Cultural Diversity/Aware- 724. Who was the first to use semantics?

an
ness?
A. Charles Sanders Peirce
B. Robert Marsham’s
C. Charles Babbage
Ch
D. Michel Breal

725. Part of Speech: A word that connects

A. ) Recognizing different beliefs, val- two nouns, verbs, or clauses
ues, and customs that other people A. Conjunction
have, that are based on their origins
B. Adjective
or upbringing.
an

C. Adverb
B. ) Everyone is the same, no matter
where you come from. D. Preposition
C. ) Everyone is different, but they 726. How many major dialects are there
ay

have the same beliefs and values. in Vietnam?

D. ) Everyone is the same , but have A. 1
different value systems.
B. 2
r

721. Which theory views output as delib- C. 3

erate practice
Na

D. 4
A. Skill acquisition
727. Syntax
B. Universal Grammar
A. The study of how meaning of a lan-
C. Usage-based approaches
guage derived from words and other
D. Input processing texts.
722. Phonotactic rules specify which B. The smallest part of written
sounds can occur in a sequence. language that represents a single
phoneme in the spelling of a word.
A. True (May be just one letter or more than
B. False one -ck,-igh)

719. A 720. A 721. A 722. A 723. A 723. D 724. D 725. A 726. C 727. C
78 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

C. The rules and conventions of 732. There are five different intelligences
grammar that govern the order of proposed by Howard Gardner
words in phrases, clauses and sen-
A. TRUE
tences.
B. FALSE
728. Human mouth and organs of speech
are designed to produce language 733. Realisasi bunyi bahasa disebut juga
A. Genetic source dengan
B. Teeth, lips, mouth, larynx and A. fon
pharynx
B. fonem
C. Tool-making source
C. morfem
D. Natural sound source
D. alofon
729. A person who engages in the prac-
tice of using two languages inter- 734. Translation involves at least
changeably is called
A. One language
A. bilingual
B. Two languages
B. diglosia
C. interferention C. Three languages

D. Code mixing D. Multiple languages

730. Linguistics is the study of 735. You should only have materials in
your classroom that are written in En-
A. Speech sounds in their phonology
glish.
aspects
B. The study of language use and cog- A. False
nitive aspects B. True
C. The study of formation of words
736. Aquella ciudad es muy bella.
D. Language specifically language (AQUELLA) hace referencia a un
form, meaning and in context. adjetivo
731. Morphology A. Calificativo
A. A sub-field of linguistics that stud- B. Demostrativo
ies internal structure of words and
relationships among words C. Interrogativo
B. A chronological order of the struc- D. Indefinido
ture of word formation.
737. What is the syntax of English?
C. The science of breaking down sen-
tence structure and meaning. A. Object+Verb+Subject
D. The identification, analysis and de- B. Subject+Verb+Object
scription of the structure of pro-nouns
and other units of meaning in a lan- C. Verb+Subject+object
guage such as words, affixes, parts of
D. Object+Subject+Verb
speech, intonation/stress, or unidenti-
fied context. E. Verb+Object+Subject

728. B 729. A 730. D 731. A 732. B 733. A 734. B 735. A 736. B 737. B
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738. Vernacular language is categorized 743. What manner and place of articula-
in tion is "s"?
A. Alveolar
B. Velar
C. Affricate
D. Fricative
E. Plosive

er
744. Language change deals with
A. how we are able to acquire/learn a
A. Low Variety language

gd
B. High Variety B. where languages come from
C. Middle Variety C. why/how languages change
D. A, B, and C answers are correct D. how our brain puts sentences to-

an
gether
739. Which areas is psycholinguistcs re-
lated to? 745. What are collocations?

A. psychology A. Words that go together

Ch
B. artificial intelligence B. Words that have independent
meaning
C. neurobiology
C. syntax
D. ethology
D. Cations made of coll
E. all of the above
746. What do we call the man?
an

740. Which type of morphemes consist of

a root and an affix?
A. Free Morpheme
B. Bound Morpheme
ay

741. In Spanish, there are two high (or

close) vowels /i/ and /u/, two mid (or
half-close) vowels /e/ and /o/, and one
r

low (or open) vowel /a/. A. Mr.

Na

A. TRUE B. Mrs.
B. FALSE C. Miss.

742. The porpuse of the study Linguistics 747. It’s innate, not product of intelli-
in an academic environment is gence, easy to develop with minimal
exposure
A. 1. An advancement of technology.
A. Language

B. 2. An advancement of knowledge. B. Linguistic competence

C. Linguistic performance
C. 3. An advancement of Psycology. D. Linguistic ability

738. A 739. E 740. B 741. A 742. B 743. A 743. D 744. C 745. A 746. A 747. B
748. B
80 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

748. When a speaker uses ’you’ in their C. It’s not important because
statements, this persuasive strategy is teacher’s intervention will inhibit stu-
BEST identified as dents from freely expressing them-
selves.
A. pronouns
D. Because such intervention can
B. direct address make students feel more comfortable
C. imperative at the moment of speaking.

D. rhetoric 754. Which is correct about affective fac-

tors in L2 acquisition?
749. The letter "c" in the word "cat" is the
A. Older seem to be less constrained.
onset
A. True B. Teenagers are more prepared than
B. False younger children.
C. The younger people study, the
750. Semantics studies SOUNDS
harder they acquire.
A. Right D. The crucial period in acquiring L2
B. Wrong is in school.

C. No 755. What the RT means in Linguistics?

A. React Time
751. select the right option
B. Respond Time
A. Words in languages are finite, but
C. Russian state-controlled interna-
sentences are not
tional television network
B. Words in languages are infinite, but
sentences are not 756. Direct speech is also called reported
speech
C. Words in languages aren’t finite,
A. True
but sentences are.
B. False
752. Lederer (1991) puts it in the strongest
757. Nasal Stop Voice
terms " the birth of language is the
dawn of Before we had words, we A. m
were not human beings" B. w
A. humanity C. b
B. animal D. p
C. flower 758. A more general set of constraints on
language is known as language univer-
D. right
sals. These are features of language
753. Why is it important to provide stu- which are language-specific; that is,
dents feedbacks? they would be found in all languages
of the world.
A. Because it’s an essential function
of language teaching. A. true
B. false
B. Because such intervention can be
helpful for the student’s learning pro- 759. The Great Vowel Shift is an uncon-
cess. ditioned sound change that

749. A 750. C 751. A 752. A 753. B 754. B 755. B 756. B 757. A 758. B 759. B
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A. created new vowels in Old English A. Piece
B. Peace
B. altered all Middle English long
763. My father is no longer my father
vowels
does not (select 2 answers)
C. changed English from German to
A. 3 full stops
High English
B. ellipsis
D. replaced Old English Norse words
with their French counterparts C. punctuation

er
D. pathos
760. What do exclamatory sentences end
with? 764. Identify the underlined element: I
feel tired.

gd
A. !
A. direct object
B. ?
B. adverbial complement
C. :
C. subject complement
D. -

an
765. In what way does the vocabulary of
761. What is the meaning of Cooing? a child with SLI differ from that of
A. The language that an acquir- typically developing children?
er/learner is exposed to, in contrast A. delay in using first word
Ch
to output.
B. they learn them in the same se-
B. Capability to bring back their quence
tongue with the back of the palate, C. typically use nouns first
producing these velar consonants
[g][k] 766. Which is spelled correctly?
C. A child must be able to hear that A. stomach
an

language being used B. stomache

D. The conversational structure that C. stumach
seems to assign an interactive role to
D. stomack
the young child
ay

767. Linguistics is the science that focuses

762. Click the homophone below that is
on
correct in its sentence:Would you like
a of cake? A. The rules and conventions of a
r

language.
Na

B. The scientific study of language.

C. The study of world languages
768. A grammar which sets out to specify
the formation of grammatical struc-
tures is:
A. Generative Grammar
B. Functional Grammar
C. Structural Grammar
D. Pedagogical Grammar

760. A 761. B 762. A 763. B 763. C 764. C 765. A 766. A 767. B 768. A
82 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

769. What is the study of the production 775. What is a linguistically isolated
and perception of speech sounds? household?
A. Phonology A. One in which no person aged 21
B. Morphology or over speaks English at least very
well.
C. phonetics
B. One in which no person aged 14 or
770. grammar is based on a con- over speaks English at least very well.
crete set of formulated transforma-
tional rules used to study grammatical
C. One in which no person aged 5 or
structures.
over speaks English at least very well.
A. Structuralist
776. Although the linguistic term can be
B. Generativist used only since the twentieth century,
C. Systemic it can be said thatThe Greeks were
the first to speculate on language.
D. Functional
A. true
771. She creates the form, how many mor-
pheme include in "creates"? B. false

A. 3 777. A text is?

B. 2 A. A piece of spoke or written lan-
guage.
C. 4
B. Surface texts are the exact words
D. 1
that people see or hear.
772. A unit of sound C. concerns the ways in which con-
A. Phoneme cepts and relations.
B. Syllable D. Relations are the links between
C. Alliteration concepts within a text, with each link
identified with the concept that it con-
D. Assonance nects to.
773. The primary role of the multicultural 778. Cultural transmission is
classroom teacher is to help students
assimilate into dominant culture. A. Language users can understand
and create never - before-heard ut-
A. True terance.
B. False B. The language user can talk about
774. Select the correct demonstrative. things that are not present, the mes-
(singular/not close) sages can refer to things in remote
time (past and future) or space (here
or elsewhere).
C. Messages in the system are made
up of smaller, repeatable parts rather
A. this than indivisible units. A word, for ex-
ample, can be broken down into units
B. that of sound.
C. those D. Human language is transmitted
D. these from one generation to another.

769. C 770. B 771. B 772. A 773. B 774. B 775. B 776. A 777. A 778. D
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779. An interpretation of verbal signs by 784. Spot the simile:
means of other signs of the same lan- A. She danced like a swan
guage is called:
B. He was a lion
A. Inter-lingual translation
C. You must go to training tomorrow
B. Intra-lingual translation
C. Inter semiotic translation D. The trees knocked on the window
D. Inter verbal translation
785. It is the study of the meaning of lan-

er
780. I climbed the entire flight of stairs. guages.

A. bird A. Phonetics

B. plane B. Syntax

gd
C. Linguistics
C. section of steps
D. Semantics
D. escalator
786. The action or descriptive word
781. Spot the simile:

an
A. Predicate
A. She stormed across the pitch
B. Verb
B. The radio roared in the car
C. Theme
C. The eagle swooped and swerved
Ch
D. Agent
D. It was as dry as the desert
787. Zakiya Jakarta last year
782. A language that has a consistent
A. visit
relationship between graphemes and
sounds can be said to B. visits
A. be logosyllabic C. visited
an

B. have a shallow or transparent or- D. visiting

thography
788. In human brain there are language
C. have a deep orthography areas that have been proposed for the
ay

D. be phonologically regular processing of comprehension and pro-

duction. These specific areas have
been identified as below, except:
A. The primary visual cortex is the
r

area mainly used for the process of

visual stimuli whereas the primary au-
Na

ditory cortex is for auditory stimuli

B. The primary visual cortex is the

area mainly used for the process of
auditory stimuli whereas the primary
auditorium cortex is for visual stimuli
783. A. ICON
C. The upper part of temporal lobe
B. INDEX
is the main area involved in auditory
C. SYMBOL reception.

779. B 780. C 781. D 782. B 783. C 784. A 785. D 786. A 787. C 788. A
84 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

D. Wernicke’s area plays a major part 794. Antonym

in the comprehension of speech or A. The word of seperate meanings.
visual
B. The word of opposite meaning.
E. The lower back part of the frontal
lobe is primarily involved in the pro- C. The word of equal meaning.
duction of speech called as Broca’s D. The word of same meaning.
area.
795. It is extremely common for nouns to
789. The study of language from a more function as adjectives.
sociological / anthropological stand- A. ENGLISH
point
B. SPANISH
A. Psycholinguistics
C. BOTH
B. Linguistic competence
D. NONE
C. Neurolinguistics
796. Can you ring the doorbell for me,
D. Sociolinguistics and Dialectology please!
E. Linguistics

790. Alveolar fricative voiced

A. t
B. d
C. s
D. z

791. Is "a glass of milk becoming sour"

physical or chemical?
A. Chemical change
B. Physical change
A. A piece of jewerly.
792. "onoma" and "rhema" were terms
given by B. To sound a bell.
A. Aristotle 797. When a BEGINNER learner of En-
B. Plato glish says "I swimmed in the lake this
weekend", it is most probably an error
C. Sophists due to:
793. What do you remember about Prag- A. competence
matics? B. performance
A. It is the study on language in use. 798. Semiotics is the study of
B. It is the branch of linguistic which A. language and communication
is concerned with the study of mean-
ing. B. signs and their meaning in society

C. It deals with the combination of

words into phrases,clauses and sen- C. cinematography
tences. D. words and context

789. D 790. D 791. A 792. B 793. A 794. B 795. A 796. B 797. A 798. B 799. A
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799. Each language has its own inventory A. fon
of phonemes that may differ from that
B. fonem
of another language.
C. alofon
A. True
D. fonetik
B. False
806. If language doesn’t have a word for
800. All allophonemes are phones and a concept, its speakers can never un-
all phones are allophonemes. derstand the concept.

er
A. True
B. False

gd
801. This is the view that language form
INFLUENCES world view
A. Linguistic relativity
A. True
B. Linguistic determinism

an
B. False
802. Denotation:
807. There are short vowel sounds.
A. The literal direct meaning of a
word.
Ch
B. The literal opposite meaning of a
word.
C. A word with no direct meaning.
A. 6
D. A way to write the direct meaning B. 12
of a word.
an

C. 44
803. What is full form of Gimme?
D. 7
A. Geved
808. There are 80 teachers in the Physics
ay

B. Giving Department, are 24 professors.

C. Give up A. from whom
D. Give me B. among whom
r

C. at which
804. Which is spelled correctly?
Na

809. I playing the piano terribly?

A. mechanic
A. Was
B. mecanic
B. Did
C. mechanac
C. Were
D. mechanec
810. Style
805. Bunyi [i] dan [I] yang dilafalkan pada
A. designate with a particular name,
kata senin ternyata tidak mengubah
description, or title.
makna. Hal ini membuktikan bahwa
bunyi [i] dan [I] merupakan B. a manner of doing something

800. B 801. A 802. A 803. D 804. A 805. C 806. B 807. D 808. B 809. A
810. E
86 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

C. a distinctive appearance, typically

determined by the principles accord-
ing to which something is designed.

D. design or make in a particular

form
E. Variation in the formality of speech A. Plato
according to the social context, in- B. Panini
cluding features of the setting and ad-
dressee(s) C. Socrates
D. Aristotle
811. The Rosetta Stone is currently in:
A. The British Museum 816. Looks at the behaviors of entire
speech communities
B. Louvre Museum
C. France
D. Italy

812. Name the linguist who:1. recog-

nized the difference between phonol-
ogy and phonetics.2. coined the term
"phoneme"3. explained the differ-
ence between grammatical and lexical A. Macro-sociolinguistics
meaning.
B. Monolingualism
A. Osgood
C. Pidginisation
B. Luria
D. Sociolinguistic marker
C. Shcherba
E. Sociopragmatic failure
D. Leontiev
817. Which word does NOT contain the
813. The tool used for communication. following sound?
A. Sound
B. Language

814. Ambiguity concerning meaning of

word
A. semantic ambiguity
B. indirect speech act
C. implicature
D. lexical ambiguity

815. The main contribution in the study A. fed

of phonetic that correspond to B. met
the comparison between words pro-
C. feed
nounced in isolation and in connected
speech was made by D. Ben

811. A 812. C 813. B 814. D 815. B 816. A 817. C

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818. As part of Prague Linguist, Ro- D. Comparative linguistics: since ac-
man Jakobson developed a theory cess to the grammar of different lan-
called guages was available, linguists started
to look at similarities and differences
A. privative
among different languages.
B. linguistic relativity
822. Choose the correct word. Be careful
C. linguistic universal with the spelling.
D. phonological universals

er
819. Lexical Morphemes are typically
(choose 3)
A. nouns

gd
A. bred
B. prepositions
B. bread
C. verbs
C. breed
D. adjectives

an
823. Select can or could for the following
E. articles
definition:We use to talk about present
820. A type of speech spoken by a spe- ability.
cific group of people in a specific lo- A. could
cation, district, or region.
Ch
B. can
A. phoneme
824. Select the option that best describes
B. inflection
the following noun: honey
C. dialect

821. Order the events: Which of the fol-

an

lowing if the fifth landmark in the evo-

lution of linguistics?
A. Noam Chomsky proposes that hu-
mans are born with the ability to learn
ay

languages and introduces new linguis-

tic concepts that are part of modern
linguistics nowadays. A. Countable Noun

B. The era of Reconstruction: an era B. Uncountable Noun

r

in which language families were iden-

825. Choose the correct word. Be careful
Na

tified. Families of languages were

with the spelling.
formed by the looking at aspects of
different languages that demonstrate
they were genetically related.
C. Structuralism: There is a shift in
describing unwritten languages, and
language is seen as a structure. Rad-
ical views such as language equality,
and the distinction between descrip-
tive and prescriptive grammar were
introduced.

818. D 819. A 819. C 819. D 820. C 821. D 822. B 823. B 824. B 825. B
88 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

A. Sup 831. What is language?

B. Soup A. language is the arbitrary condition
C. Soap in having communication

826. select the right option B. language is an arbitrary system

used for communication
A. The rules are called grammar,
these are learned as one study a lan- C. language is a component system
guage. in communication

B. The rules are learned as one ac- 832. Sarah?

quires a language.
A. Do you know
C. The rules of a language, also
called grammar, are learned as one B. Are you knowing
acquires a language.
833. Discuss: Think about a time where
827. How many part in Basic concept of you had to "improvise a performance"
morphology? with a foreigner that you didn’t quite
A. 5 understand. What did you do?

B. 7 A. Next Question
C. 6 B. X
D. 8
834. It is the strongest form of the Sapir-
828. What is hyponymy? Whorf hypothesis.
A. The hidden and implied meanings A. linguistic determinism
within language.
B. linguistic knowledge
B. The study of how sounds are cre-
ated. C. linguistic competence

C. The hierarchical structure that ex- D. linguistic relativism

ists between lexical items.
835. The study of rules and practices for
D. The study of symbols. making and using sounds in a lan-
829. After they received the loan from guage is called
the bank, the construction company A. Morphology
was able to start two of the project.
B. Syntax
A. phase
C. Semantics
B. phaise
C. phaze D. Phonology

D. phaisee 836. Which is spelled correctly?

830. The difference between informative A. charicter
and communicative signals is one of
intentionality. B. character

A. True C. charactir
B. False D. carachter

826. C 827. C 828. C 829. A 830. A 831. B 832. A 833. A 834. A 835. D
836. B
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837. Which one is next? C. Linguistic intelligence is the intel-
ligence of count numbers

842. Which is the most important book

for Bloomfield?
A. Language
B. Introduction to the study of Lan-
guage

er
C. Linguistic Aspects of Science

843. What is language acquisition?

gd
A. The process by which humans ac-
quire the capacity to perceive and
comprehend language
A. 1
B. The process of developing or learn-
B. 2
ing a language

an
C. 3
C. The process of buying a language
D. 4
D. Learning about a language’s origin
838. Seeing (that) is a special circumstan-
Ch
tial compound conjuction.
E. Purchasing a language app on your
A. True smart phone
B. False
844. Sintax is sentences structure.
839. He believed that speech is language
A. Right
and the written is just a secondary
an

reflection of the language. B. Wrong

A. Searle & Austin C. No
B. Malinowski
845. what is Cohesion in text linguistics?
ay

C. Joseph Greenberg
A. Concerns the ways in which the
D. Charles Fries components of the surface text are
connected within a sequence
840. A sentence is grammatical if it devi-
r

ates from the rules in some way. This B. may consist of just one word Eg
statement is Danger ( written on a warning sign)
Na

A. TRUE C. A piece of spoke or written lan-

B. FALSE guage.
D. is a branch of linguistics that deals
841. What is linguistic intelligence?
with texts as communication systems.
A. Linguistic Intelligence that deals
with sensitivity to the spoken and 846. Examples of an alveolar stop
written language, ability to learn lan-
A. t & d
guages, and capacity to use language
to accomplish certain goals. B. s & z
B. Is a type of food C. n & l

837. D 838. A 839. D 840. B 841. A 842. A 843. A 844. A 845. A 846. A
847. A
90 Chapter 1. LINGUISTICS

847. Read the following statement and an- D. Patient

swer whether it is true or false."Syntax
is the grammatical arrangement of 852. Grammatical Morphemes are typi-
words in a sentence." cally (choose 3)
A. True A. nouns
B. False
B. articles
848. What is Neuro-Linguistic Program-
C. verbs
ming?
A. is a subfield of linguistics, com- D. prepositions
puter science, and artificial intelli-
E. conjunctions
gence concerned with the interactions
between computers and human lan-
853. The study of how context con-
guage.
tributes to meaning is called:
B. is the process of creating a set of
instructions that tell a computer how A. phonology
to perform a task.
B. pragmatics
C. is a process of modeling the con-
scious and unconscious patterns that C. historical linguistics
are unique to each of us in such a D. semantics
way that we are continuously moving
toward a higher potential. 854. There are branches of linguis-
849. babbling occurs between 12 and tics.
18 months, and is marked by the in- A. One
fant’s production of of long strings of
syllables, and more varied stress and B. Two
intonation patterns.
C. Three
A. variegated
D. Four
B. jargon
C. true 855. Read the following statement and
D. vegetative answer whether it is true or
false."Contemporary English was used
850. short phrases, or single words, are in the past."
used by people in communication all
the time A. True

A. Sentence B. False
B. Proposition
856. Identify two gender-neutral prefix-
C. Utterance es/titles. (must select 2)
851. The boy put the bottle on the table, A. Ms.
The boy is
B. Mr.
A. Location
B. Agent C. Mx.

C. Participant D. Dr.

848. C 849. B 850. C 851. B 852. B 852. D 852. E 853. B 854. D 855. B 856. C
856. D
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861. What stage of the first language ac-
quisition does this image represent?

er
A. Caregiver Speech
B. Telegraphic Adquistion
857. A. ICON

gd
C. The two-word Stage
B. INDEX
D. Input
C. SYMBOL
862. Which is not an example of Primary
858. At which stage , ELLs have had be-
source?

an
tween one and three years exposure
to English? A. Conference proceedings
A. The preproduction stage B. Transcripts
Ch
B. The Early production stage C. Statistics
C. The speech emergence D. Official government records
D. The intermediate fluency stage
863. It is the study of words, how they
859. Semantics are formed, and their relationship to
other words in the same language.
A. The meaning of words.
an

A. Syntax
B. The structure of words (parts of
words). B. Phonology

C. The meaning of words. C. Morphology

ay

D. How the meaning of words is in- D. Pragmatics

fluenced by the context.
864. If you are a deaf person being in-
860. My grandfather gave me a present troduced in the Deaf community, deaf
r

for my birthday.Which of the follow- people would be most interested in

ing sentences uses the word present
Na

A. Your first and last name

the same way.
B. Where you are going to school
A. The class will present their book
reports today. C. Where/how you learned ASL
B. I had to present the problem to my D. If you have a job
dad.
865. semantics studies how the mean-
C. I wrote a thank you note for the
ing of complex expressions is con-
present my teacher gave me.
structed, such as for example phrases,
D. This weather presents a problem sentences, locutions, or even dis-
for people that are traveling. courses.

857. B 858. C 859. C 860. C 861. C 862. A 863. C 864. B 865. A

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A. Compositional A. Free Morphemes

B. Lexical B. Bound Morphemes
C. Locutionary 872. How many consonant sounds are
D. Combinatory there in English?

866. Select the article that best completes A. 32

the sentence.The girl is pilot. B. 24
A. an C. 17
B. a
873. Intransitive verbs are those:
867. Identify the verb phrase: My assis- A. Which can be converted into pas-
tant opens the mail very carefully. sive voice
A. verb phrase B. Which can take an object
B. adverb phrase C. Which can’t take an object
C. prepositional phrase D. None of these
868. Complete the sentence with the cor-
874. What is the difference between a pid-
rect phrase.Hi! I am Diego. 8
gin and a creole language?
years old.
A. Pidgin has a long history (300
years), Creole does not
B. Pidgin has no native speakers,
while Creole gets passed down gen-
erationally
C. Creole developed during the 20th
century, while Pidgin developed dur-
ing the 1900s.
A. I am D. Creole languages are blended be-
B. I have tween two different cultures, while Pid-
gins are not
869. In English, we use the labiodental
fricative for the letters: E. Pidgin languages are an abbrevi-
ated single language, while Creole lan-
A. c and k guages blend 3 or more languages to-
B. f and v gether.

C. e and i 875. was one of the most influential

linguists in the field of syntax.
870. A morpheme, usually from a parent
language A. Paul Broca
A. Root Word B. Carl Wernicke
B. Prefix C. Noam Chomsky
C. Suffix D. William Shakespeare

871. Which type of morpheme can stand 876. In the Simple View of Reading, what
alone? category does semantics fall under?

866. B 867. B 868. A 869. B 870. A 871. A 872. B 873. C 874. B 875. C 876. B
877. B
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A. Word Recognition 882. They are internal and abstracts as-
B. Language Comprehension pects of Language?

C. Reading Comprehension A. Morphology

B. Syntax
877. Who is considered one of the best of
all time? C. Semantics
A. Edward Sapir D. All of them
B. Leonard Bloomfield 883. Haiku and Tanaga were influenced

er
C. Ferdinand de Saussure by what period?
D. Charles Bally A. Spanish Period

878. "A person’s cognitive development B. 21st Century Period

gd
is influenced by their culture" is of C. Japanese Period
language acquisition.
D. Period of Enlightenment
A. generative theory
884. Which language is the language of

an
B. cognitive theory the Divine?
C. sociocultural theory A. Greek
D. behaviorist theory
B. None
Ch
879. what is an error? C. Sanskrit
A. incorrect statement made by a D. Hebrew
learner, who is unaware of it and does
not know how to correct it 885. Speaking in , both the Nigerian
and the Ghanaian were able to under-
B. incorrect statement made by a
stand each other.
learner, if it pointed out, learner can
an

correct on own A. pidgin

C. incorrect statement, often made by B. semantics
learners student, they notice the inac- C. standard
curacy on their own and self-correct.
ay

886. how many morphemes are from the

880. God confounded people speech, so
word "regardless"?
that the couldn’t understand each
other. A. 3
B. 1
r

A. Divine source
B. Biblical tradition C. 2
Na

C. Hindu tradition D. 4
D. Babel 887. Which syllable is stressed in reserva-
881. Person who has knowledge of multi- tion?
ple languages A. 1st
A. Scientists B. 2nd
B. Linguists C. 3rd
C. Polyglot 888. According to Peirce we can recog-
D. Teachers nize three types of signs:

878. C 879. A 880. D 881. C 882. D 883. C 884. B 885. A 886. C 887. C
888. C
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A. linguistic, indexical, iconic 895. The sunset was amazing over

B. symbolic, indexical, linguistic the water with its stunning colors of
reds, pinks and oranges.
C. symbolic, iconic, indexical
A. picturesque
889. The formation of Curriculum Devel-
B. opaque
opment Team is a part of
C. charisma
A. implementation
D. schooner
B. Preparing
C. Planing 896. Translation is:

890. It accords to output the status of A. A new phenomena

an acquisition catalyst, an acquisition B. As old as the history of mankind
expanding force with interlanguage
C. Since 18th century
stretching capabilities.
D. None of the above.
A. The interaction approach
B. Sociocultural Theory 897. According to the place of articu-
lation, which one is NOT a type of
C. The concept-oriented framework sound produced:
891. These are the elements needed in
order for communication to be con-
sidered as ’true language’
A. semanticity
B. interchangeability
C. mode
D. pragmatic function
A. alveolar
892. Who was considered the ’Father of
Linguistics B. dental

A. William James C. velum

B. Ferdinand de Saussure D. bilabial

C. Leonard Bloomfield 898. What are synchronic linguistics?
D. Noam Chomsky A. Linguistics that move in perfect
harmony
893. Do you playing this game?
B. The study of fluent words
A. liking
C. The study of language in a set time
B. likes
C. like
D. Linguists who move between coun-
894. (Multiple choice )Computational lin- tries
guistic goals are:
899. Prescriptive grammar is a set of
A. Summarizing text. rules about language based on how
B. Repair network systems. it is actually used
C. Creating Chatbot. A. True
D. Building dialogues. B. False

889. C 890. A 891. A 891. B 891. C 891. D 892. B 893. C 894. A 894. C
894. D 895. A 896. B 897. C 898. C 899. B
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900. Order the event: Whis of the follow- 904. Complete the following sentence. Se-
ing vents is the second one? lect article The or No article. UK
is in Europe.
A. Scholasticism: Latin is the lan-
guage of instruction in higher edu- A. The
cation; there is Intellectual awakening; B. No article
education is in hands of the church,
and bible translations begin. 905. The great majority of general and
special education teachers in the US
B. The Romans conquered the Greeks
come from the dominant culture.

er
and borrowed their linguistic metalan-
guage to describe Latin. A. True
C. Greek philosophers coined words B. False
to describe the Greek language, devel-

gd
oping metalanguage and metalinguis- 906. It is a cunjunction used to show con-
tic awareness. dition.

D. With the fall of Constantinople, A. Since

Christian scholars fled with docu- B. Because

an
ments written in Hebrew and Greek,
C. Besides
which soon became academic subjects.
Clergymen taught people to read the D. If
bible in their mother tongues.
907. Who was considered the ’Father of
Ch
901. What is Psycholinguistics? Linguistics’, a Swiss guy, who au-
thored the book entitled ’Course in
A. the study of psychological aspects General Linguistics"?
of language and speech
A. Noam Chomsky
B. the study of the mental aspects of
language and speech B. William James
an

C. the study of the physical aspects C. Ferdinand de Saussure

D. Leonard Bloomfield
902. The definition of phoneme is, "The
smallest part of language." 908. We will stay at a hotel my friend
ay

A. spoken has recommended to us.

A. where
B. written
B. who
C. informal
r

C. which
D. formal
Na

909. He is considered the godfather of

903. The family tree model of language
prescriptive grammar.
assumes a genetic relationship be-
tween languages A. Bishop Robert Lowe
A. that derived from the same ances- B. Noam Chomsky
tral language
910. Main areas of Linguistic.
B. that look similar
A. Semantics, Morphology and Prag-
C. that are not related through cog- matics
nates
B. Phonology, Syntax, Pronunciation
D. that developed in the same area and Sound

900. B 901. B 902. A 903. A 904. A 905. A 906. D 907. C 908. C 909. A
910. A
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911. Psycholinguists generally consider 916. A message full of rich and vivid lan-
that there are three stages in language guage would be called:
production. Which of the following
best describes them in the correct or-
der?
A. grammatical encoding, conceptu-
alization, phonological/orthographic
encoding
B. conceptualization, morphological
encoding, grammatical encoding
C. conceptualization, grammatical A. Indirect
encoding, phonological/orthographic B. Low Context
encoding
C. Elaborative
D. phonological bootstrapping, gram-
matical encoding, orthographic en- D. Semantic
coding
917. Which continent is the largest in the
912. There are two kinds of irony. Dra- world?
matic irony Situational irony
A. Africa
A. Tue
B. Asia
B. False
C. North America
913. Philosophers that claimed that lan-
guages was essentially systematic and 918. The study of appropriate languge
regular were called anomalist use in different social contexts.
A. semantics
B. phonetics
C. pragmatics
A. True D. linguistics
B. False
919. How words work together to form
914. Alveolar flap voiced sentences (i.e. grammar and its rules).
A. t A. -Sociolinguistics
B. r B. -Syntax
C. s C. -Semantics
D. z
D. -Pragmatics
915. Extreme exaggeration in speech is
920. In UG Learners output does not
called a/an
have a theoretical status, as it occupies
A. hyperbole no place in the explanations proposed
B. synecdoche or the evidence sought.

C. fallacy A. True
D. exacerbation B. False

911. C 912. B 913. B 914. B 915. A 916. C 917. B 918. C 919. B 920. A
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921. Identify Africa. 925. The teacher should not permit the
use of the native language as this
would hamper the development of En-
glish.
A. True
B. False
926. Morpholigicallly conditioned alter-
nations are:

er
A. 2 A. Always regular
B. Always irregular
B. 3
C. Sometimes regular

gd
C. 4
927. British National Corpora contained
D. 5
million words in the 1990s.
E. 6 A. 200

an
922. Who invented this model of commu- B. 110
nication? C. 500
D. 100
Ch
928. All communication is goal oriented
and moves from the source’s intention
to the receptor’s interpretation
A. True
B. False
A. Saussure
C. Not applicable
an

B. Leontiev
D. Not relevant
C. Chomsky
929. What is the first thing a Deaf person
D. Osgood will ask you?
ay

923. what is linguistics? A. Are you Deaf or Hearing?

A. the study of language B. Do you know sign language?

C. Where are you from?
B. the study of word form
r

D. What is your name?

C. the study of sentence structure
Na

E. Where did you go to school?

D. the study of sound word
930. Which is spelled correctly?
924. A sentence that is syntactically fine A. cristen
but does not make sense (contains se-
mantic violations) B. chrisen
C. christin
A. contradiction
D. christen
B. anamoly
931. These are points in an argument that
C. anachronism
a writer takes for granted and do not
D. anarchy prove with evidence/s.

921. C 922. D 923. A 924. B 925. B 926. A 927. D 928. A 929. A 930. D
931. C
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A. Experience 937. Howard Gardner came up with the

idea of multiple intelligences
B. Senses
C. Assumptions A. TRUE

D. Prior Knowledge B. FALSE

932. A linguistic response takes place af- 938. What is an example of a closed class
ter the presence of sensible stimuli (function) words?
surrounding the speaker is one of the
ideas proposed by A. conjuctions

A. Bloomfield B. adjectives
B. Saussure C. adverbs
C. Boas D. nouns
D. Mathesius
939. Which linguists supported the idea
933. What is NOT an example of a con- that the mind is not always related to
tent word? the language?
A. a noun A. Wundt
B. a pronoun B. Leibniz
C. a verb
C. Humboldt
D. an adverb
D. Potebnja
934. In linguistics, the study of the sound
E. Baudouin de Courtenay
systems of languages.
A. Morphology 940. Perbedaan bunyi vokal dan konso-
B. Pragmatics nan didasarkan pada fakta

C. Phonology A. Artikulasi dan artikulator

D. Syntax B. Sifat udara yang keluar dari paru-
paru ketika bunyi dihasilkan
935. Phomology is the studies of the
system of languages. C. Perubahan bentuk bibir
A. mean D. Fungsi alat ucap
B. sound
941. Based on the Pivot-Open Grammar,
C. syllable the utterance ’big baby’ exhibits which
D. phone of the following combinations?

936. While watching another person sign- A. Pivot open

ing, it is appropriate to focus on the B. Open pivot
signer’s for grammar?
C. Open Open
A. Hands
B. Chest 942. The discussions about the regular
patters in languages and exceptions.
C. Legs
The terms used for regularity or irreg-
D. Face ularly in the language patterns was

932. A 933. B 934. C 935. B 936. D 937. A 938. A 939. D 939. E 940. B 941. A
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A. Macro-sociolinguistics
B. Monolingualism
C. Pidginisation
D. Sociolinguistic marker
E. Sociopragmatic failure

947. During a lesson on commas, four

students write sentences on the board.

er
A. Conventionalism and naturalism
Which sentence has a mistake in
B. Languages and thought comma usage?
C. Analogy and anomaly A. Mario, Mona, and Ming are in the

gd
play.
D. Onomatopeia and metaphores
B. Ahmed is in the play, but Salem
943. Select the correct form of There is did not even try for it.
and There are. Analyze the sentence C. Inge, a talented singer, is also in

an
(plural or singular) a post office. the play.
A. There are D. Ms. Platt approved the play a little-
B. There is known work by Ibsen.
Ch
944. Psycholinguistics or psychology of 948. Is it recomendated to listen to au-
language is the study of the psycho- dios to acquire English as second Lan-
logical and neurological factors that guage?
enable humans to acquire, use, and A. So -So
understand language.
B. I don’t think so
A. TRUE C. Completly agree
an

B. FALSE
949. Which is spelled correctly?
945. Truth conditions are the study of A. chaos
conditions under which a statement
B. caos
ay

can be judged as true or false. Truth

conditions can exist in individual sen- C. choas
tences or between sentences. D. kaos
A. True
r

950. In the ESOL Classroom, why would

B. False the concept of World Englishes be im-
Na

portant?
946. Knowledge to speak or write in only
A. Both native English speakers and
one language
those learning English as a second lan-
guage must be accustomed to speak-
ing to and understanding others with
various dialects.
B. World Englishes means English
should be the only language spoken
in the world, so students should study
hard to be fluent.

942. C 943. B 944. A 945. A 946. B 947. D 948. C 949. A 950. A

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C. World Englishes are pidgins that 956. According to Census 2000, what
students should learn so they can com- percent of Americans speak both their
municate in a global marketplace. native language and another language
D. English is the easiest language to fluently?
learn in the world. A. 25.2 percent
951. Will’s reading skills improved excep- B. 9.3 percent
tionally once he started reading books.
Does ’exceptionally’ mean that Will’s C. 15.7 percent
reading skills improved greater than
expected? 957. According to Saussure the sign is
made of
A. True
B. False A. Two parts: representament and in-
terpretant.
952. Identify the underlined part of
speech, "My dog is fast. He runs like B. Three parts: Signified, signifier
lightening." and referent.

A. Noun C. Two parts: Signified and signifier.

B. Pronoun 958. What manner of articulation is "q"?
C. Verb
A. Fricative
953. Synonym is
B. Trill
A. One of two or more words or ex-
pressions of the same language that C. Plosive
have similar meanings.
D. Affricate
B. Three words that mean the same
thing.One or two more words or ex- 959. Part of Speech: A word that de-
pressions of the same scribes a verb or adjective
C. laguague that have opposite mean- A. Adverb
ings
B. Pronoun
D. Words that have similar meanings
but are from opposite languages. C. Preposition
954. What does a corpus mean? D. Conjunction
A. Collection of machine-readable
960. What is the study of language as
texts
it pertains to social classes, ethnic
B. Collection of words groups, and genders?
C. Collection of artificial languages
A. Linguistics
955. The work for which Saussure came B. Psycholinguistics
to be known?
A. A Study in General Linguistics C. Comparative Linguistics

B. A Chapter in General Linguistics D. Sociolinguistics

C. A Course in General Linguistics 961. The Telegraphic speech (2 years +)
D. A Course in General Languages in FLA are

951. A 952. B 953. A 954. A 955. C 956. B 957. C 958. C 959. A 960. D
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