LINA01 EXAM SCRIPT WITH VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● What is competence?
Answer: Your unconscious knowledge of what can and can't be said
●● What is performance?
Answer: How you actually use your linguistic competence to produce
and understand speech
●● Define grammar
Answer: A complex system of rules that governs how speakers organize
sounds into words and words into sentences
●● What are the 5 parts to grammar?
Answer: 1. Phonetics 2. Morphology 3. Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
●● What are the two approaches to grammar?
Answer: Prescriptive and Descriptive
●● Define prescriptive grammar
Answer: Its the rules of language
,●● Define descriptive grammar
Answer: It studies and characterizes actual language of specific groups
- has nothing to do with correctness
●● Define syntax
Answer: Sentence structure
●● Define semantics
Answer: meaning and interpretation of sentences
●● Define morphology
Answer: Deals with the structure of words
●● Define phonology
Answer: Its the sound combinations
●● Define phonetics?
Answer: Deals with perception and articulation of speech sounds
●● What are the 5 characteristics of grammar?
Answer: 1. Generality
, 2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility
5. Universality
●● Define standard language?
Answer: Its the variety of any given language spoken by the most
powerful group in a community
- held correct by a prescriptive grammarians
●● Define non-standard language?
Answer: - Still grammatical just is informal
●● What is register/style?
Answer: It is the distinction between familiarity and formality
●● What is the mental lexicon?
Answer: It is where we store sounds from which we create words
●● What kind of relationship does form and meaning have?
Answer: It is an arbitrary one
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● What is competence?
Answer: Your unconscious knowledge of what can and can't be said
●● What is performance?
Answer: How you actually use your linguistic competence to produce
and understand speech
●● Define grammar
Answer: A complex system of rules that governs how speakers organize
sounds into words and words into sentences
●● What are the 5 parts to grammar?
Answer: 1. Phonetics 2. Morphology 3. Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
●● What are the two approaches to grammar?
Answer: Prescriptive and Descriptive
●● Define prescriptive grammar
Answer: Its the rules of language
,●● Define descriptive grammar
Answer: It studies and characterizes actual language of specific groups
- has nothing to do with correctness
●● Define syntax
Answer: Sentence structure
●● Define semantics
Answer: meaning and interpretation of sentences
●● Define morphology
Answer: Deals with the structure of words
●● Define phonology
Answer: Its the sound combinations
●● Define phonetics?
Answer: Deals with perception and articulation of speech sounds
●● What are the 5 characteristics of grammar?
Answer: 1. Generality
, 2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility
5. Universality
●● Define standard language?
Answer: Its the variety of any given language spoken by the most
powerful group in a community
- held correct by a prescriptive grammarians
●● Define non-standard language?
Answer: - Still grammatical just is informal
●● What is register/style?
Answer: It is the distinction between familiarity and formality
●● What is the mental lexicon?
Answer: It is where we store sounds from which we create words
●● What kind of relationship does form and meaning have?
Answer: It is an arbitrary one
