LINA01 PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ Language isolate.
Answer: A language with no known genetic relatives
◍ 24-36 months.
Answer: multiword utterances
◍ English as an L2.
Answer: English used as a second language in places like India and South
Africa
◍ What does "manner of articulation" signify?.
Answer: the "how" of making sounds; the configuration and interaction of
the articulators when making a speech sound
◍ rich/ridge.
Answer: minimal pair, word final
◍ Semanticity.
Answer: the ability to convey a meaning
◍ Table 5.5 Classification of American English Vowels.
Answer: L: bead; bid; bed; badM: ə = schwa; З = world, firm, learn, her,
girl; Λ = cup, country, love, money R: you, two, room; go, show, only;
daughter, law, fall; father, coffee, honest
◍ Arbitrariness.
Answer: no natural connection between the sound of a word and its meaning
◍ Language (uppercase L).
Answer: the human cognitive system that allows communication
◍ What is bottom up processing?.
, Answer: moves from the acoustic signal to phonemes, morphemes, words
and phrases, and finally semantic interpretation
◍ Alveolar sounds.
Answer: sounds that are articulated at the small ridge just behind the upper
front teeth (s, z)
◍ What is meant when two segments are contrasting in distribution?.
Answer: the occurrence of sounds in a language such that their use
distinguishes between the meanings of the words in which they appear
(allophones of different phonemes)
◍ Indo-European language family.
Answer: A large language family including Romance, Germanic, and Slavic
languages
◍ Bill 101 in Quebec.
Answer: Demands commercial signs must be in French; this bill is troubling
because roughly 8% of Quebec's population speaks English as their first
language
◍ De facto language.
Answer: A language that functions as official despite not being legally
designated
◍ Phonology.
Answer: the organization of speech sounds in a particular language
◍ phase/face.
Answer: minimal pair, word final
◍ Example of contrastive distribution.
Answer: [t^h æ k] "tack". [p^h æ k] "pack" these are different words in
English hence /t/ and /p/ are separate "contrastive" phonemes
◍ CVC.
Answer: consonant-vowel-consonant (cup)
◍ [ ].
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◍ Language isolate.
Answer: A language with no known genetic relatives
◍ 24-36 months.
Answer: multiword utterances
◍ English as an L2.
Answer: English used as a second language in places like India and South
Africa
◍ What does "manner of articulation" signify?.
Answer: the "how" of making sounds; the configuration and interaction of
the articulators when making a speech sound
◍ rich/ridge.
Answer: minimal pair, word final
◍ Semanticity.
Answer: the ability to convey a meaning
◍ Table 5.5 Classification of American English Vowels.
Answer: L: bead; bid; bed; badM: ə = schwa; З = world, firm, learn, her,
girl; Λ = cup, country, love, money R: you, two, room; go, show, only;
daughter, law, fall; father, coffee, honest
◍ Arbitrariness.
Answer: no natural connection between the sound of a word and its meaning
◍ Language (uppercase L).
Answer: the human cognitive system that allows communication
◍ What is bottom up processing?.
, Answer: moves from the acoustic signal to phonemes, morphemes, words
and phrases, and finally semantic interpretation
◍ Alveolar sounds.
Answer: sounds that are articulated at the small ridge just behind the upper
front teeth (s, z)
◍ What is meant when two segments are contrasting in distribution?.
Answer: the occurrence of sounds in a language such that their use
distinguishes between the meanings of the words in which they appear
(allophones of different phonemes)
◍ Indo-European language family.
Answer: A large language family including Romance, Germanic, and Slavic
languages
◍ Bill 101 in Quebec.
Answer: Demands commercial signs must be in French; this bill is troubling
because roughly 8% of Quebec's population speaks English as their first
language
◍ De facto language.
Answer: A language that functions as official despite not being legally
designated
◍ Phonology.
Answer: the organization of speech sounds in a particular language
◍ phase/face.
Answer: minimal pair, word final
◍ Example of contrastive distribution.
Answer: [t^h æ k] "tack". [p^h æ k] "pack" these are different words in
English hence /t/ and /p/ are separate "contrastive" phonemes
◍ CVC.
Answer: consonant-vowel-consonant (cup)
◍ [ ].
