Linguistics Exam 1 (100% Correct Answers)

What is linguistics? Correct Answers The study of language What makes knowledge of a language different than knowledge of linguistics? Correct Answers -A speaker can speak/use a language without any knowledge of its internal structure. -A linguist can understand/know the internal structure of a language without speaking it What is someone who speaks more than one language called? Correct Answers Polyglot, bilingual, multilingual What is a linguist concerned with? Correct Answers Language as a human phenomenon What do linguists study? Correct Answers -Study of language -Relationships among languages -Historical and present day What are the parts of Linguistics? Correct Answers Divisions What is formal linguistics? Correct Answers -The study of the structures and processes of language (how language works + how it's organized) -Study different languages, identifying/studying common elements, to discover most efficient ways to describe language in general What does "grammar" mean? Correct Answers -Traditional/prescriptive approach->What we are taught in school -Linguistic approach -> Anything spoken that makes sense What are some examples of ungrammatical sentences? Correct Answers -That's the boy I'm going movies with -It's better to carefully avoid to split infinitives -Who it is? It's me. What are the five areas Formal Linguistics study? Correct Answers 1. Phonetics 2. Phonology 3. Morphology 4. Syntax 5. Semantics