Free Master of Humanities Language and Linguistics Questions and Answers

Question 1

Are referred to as secondary phonemes.

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Suprasegmentals

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Morphemes

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Allophones

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Allomorphs

Question 2

Is a word-formation process in which two or more existing words are just put together.

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Compounding

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backformation

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Derivation

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Portmanteau

Question 3

refers to the linguistic standard unique to a region, social class, or status that affects mutual understanding

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Dialect

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Slang

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Idiolect

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Register

Question 4

Which of these is a good example of a portmanteau?

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Smog

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Buzz

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Edit

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Unesco

Question 5

Semiotics is a term that was first used by

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Charles sanders pierce

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Edward sapir

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Ferdinand de sauddure

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Noam chomsky

Question 6

Examples of first sounds are "chair" and "jam."

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Affricates

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Fricatives

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Trill

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Plosives

Question 7

Top-most has a /p/ that is a

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Nasal plosion

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Incomplete plosion.

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Alveolar plosion

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Bilabial plosion

Question 8

A speaker is capable of creating an infinite number of grammatical statements using a finite set of rules. This characteristic of language is known as

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Transference

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Displacement

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Recursiveness

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Duality of structure

Question 9

As in "boys," the -s is

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An adjective forming morpheme

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Past morpheme

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Possessive morpheme

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Plural morpheme

Question 10

In the words "sudden" and "mutton," the final /n/ is

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Syllabic consonants

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None of the above

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Sibilants

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Suffixes