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AFL2601
EXAM ANSWERS
AFL2601 ANSWERS
MAY/JUNE
2024
QUESTION 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. Articulatory phonetics is the study of … PAGE 4

A. the changes in meaning produced by speech sounds
B. the movement of speech organs when speech sounds are uttered
C. the system of the International Phonetics Association (IPA) D. the primary role of
speech organs

2. When most of the words in a language consist of more than one morpheme, such a
language is said to have …

A. a reciprocal morphology
B. an agglutinative morphology
C. a monomorphemic morphology
D. an invariable morphology

3. Affixes are classified into two main types, namely …

A. lexical and grammatical morphemes
B. singular and plural markers
C. preprefix and a basic prefix
D. prefixes and suffixes

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4. In Guthrie’s study “starred forms” represent …

A. the system of grammatical genders
B. the operation of regular sound shifts
C. archaeological evidence for the interrelatedness of Bantu languages
D. roots from which words could have been derived

5. When you are able to apply some of your knowledge of one language to a new language
this is called …

A. linguistic tools
B. language transfer
C. automatic translation
D. information extraction

6. The term ‘Ur-Bantu’ refers to …

A. The systematic fragmentation of the Bantu language family.
B. Guthrie’s corpus of approximately 2 300 starred forms.
C. The presumed ancestor language of the Bantu languages.
D. The place of origin of the Bantu languages.

7. Greater flexibility in word order in the African languages as compared to English is made
possible through …

A. subjects, verbs and objects.
B. deletion of nouns.
C. non-distinction of gender in the pronouns.
D. agreement morphemes.

8. Why can the origin of the Bantu languages not be determined with any certainty?

A. There are no written records of the original language.
B. There is no archaeological evidence of the existence of the original people.
C. Diachronic postulations were made without a synchronic study.
D. Bantu languages lack the operation of regular sound shifts.




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9. In any multilingual society certain languages will be dominant, while others will be
minority languages. In South Africa this statement holds true. Dominance in some
languages is determined by …

A. people who speak many languages.
B. the number of speakers.
C. economic and political power.
D. the minority.

10. The African languages are experienced as difficult to learn by non-speakers of an
African language because of …

A. economic pressures.
B. structural differences between their languages and an African language.
C. lack of prestige associated with knowing an African language.

11. Codification is defined as …

A. maximal variation in function.
B. standard orthography and lexical modernization.
C. minimal and maximal variation in function.
D. minimal variation in form.

12. Educational discussions fall under ...

A. non-verbal communication.
B. formal communication.
C. written communication.
D. non-formal communication.

13. Greetings can be described as the exchange of …

A. expressions between two or more people meeting socially.
B. expressions between students for the purpose of preparing for an assignment.
C. academic information between two people.
D. information in business life.

14. In the study of the development of the Bantu languages, the term ‘Ur-Bantu’ refers to:

A. The systematic fragmentation of the Bantu language family.

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