AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● language
Answer: is the capacity to produce sounds that signify certain meaning;
to understand or interpret the sounds produced by others.
●● inventory of sounds
Answer: knowing the sound system of a language includes more than
just knowing the inventory of sounds.
it means knowing which sounds start a word and which sounds end a
word and follow each other.
●● knowledge of words
Answer: signify the meaning of a word.
●● arbitrary meaning
Answer: what describes the property of a language, including sign
language, whereby there is no natural or intrinsic relationship between
the way a word is pronounced or signed and its meaning.
, example: father is signed differently in English vs. Chinese.
●● sound symbolism
Answer: are words whose pronunciation suggest the meaning.
●● onomatopoeic
Answer: words like cock-a-doodle-doo...
words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they
refer to.
the sounds differ from language to language, reflecting the particular
sound system of the language.
●● knowledge of a language
Answer: enables you to combine sounds to form words, words to form
phrases, and phrases to form sentences.
●● produce language
Answer: knowing a language means being able to
______________________ produce new sentences never spoken before
and to understand sentences never heard before.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● language
Answer: is the capacity to produce sounds that signify certain meaning;
to understand or interpret the sounds produced by others.
●● inventory of sounds
Answer: knowing the sound system of a language includes more than
just knowing the inventory of sounds.
it means knowing which sounds start a word and which sounds end a
word and follow each other.
●● knowledge of words
Answer: signify the meaning of a word.
●● arbitrary meaning
Answer: what describes the property of a language, including sign
language, whereby there is no natural or intrinsic relationship between
the way a word is pronounced or signed and its meaning.
, example: father is signed differently in English vs. Chinese.
●● sound symbolism
Answer: are words whose pronunciation suggest the meaning.
●● onomatopoeic
Answer: words like cock-a-doodle-doo...
words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they
refer to.
the sounds differ from language to language, reflecting the particular
sound system of the language.
●● knowledge of a language
Answer: enables you to combine sounds to form words, words to form
phrases, and phrases to form sentences.
●● produce language
Answer: knowing a language means being able to
______________________ produce new sentences never spoken before
and to understand sentences never heard before.
