LINA01 FINAL EXAM 2024;(ANSWERED 100%)
What is linguistics? Ans ✔👌- Study of all things related to language
What is competence? Ans ✔👌- Your unconscious knowledge of what can and can't be said
What is performance? Ans ✔👌- How you actually use your linguistic competence to produce and understand speech
Define grammar Ans ✔👌- A complex system of rules that governs how speakers organize sounds into words and words into sentences
What are the 5 parts to grammar? Ans ✔👌- 1. Phonetics 2. Morphology 3. Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
What are the two approaches to grammar? Ans ✔👌- Prescriptive and Descriptive
Define prescriptive grammar Ans ✔👌- Its the rules of language
Define descriptive grammar Ans ✔👌- It studies and characterizes actual language of specific groups - has nothing to do with correctness
Define syntax Ans ✔👌- Sentence structure
Define semantics Ans ✔👌- meaning and interpretation of sentences
Define morphology Ans ✔👌- Deals with the structure of words
Define phonology Ans ✔👌- Its the sound combinations Define phonetics? Ans ✔👌- Deals with perception and articulation of speech sounds
What are the 5 characteristics of grammar? Ans ✔👌- 1. Generality 2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility 5. Universality
Define standard language? Ans ✔👌- 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? Ans ✔👌- - Still grammatical just is informal
What is register/style? Ans ✔👌- It is the distinction between familiarity and formality
What is the mental lexicon? Ans ✔👌- It is where we store sounds from which we create words
What kind of relationship does form and meaning have? Ans ✔👌- It is an arbitrary one
What is the smallest unit of language? Ans ✔👌- phoneme
What is the smallest unit of meaning? Ans ✔👌- morpheme
What are the three ways in which morphemes can be categorized in 3 ways? Ans ✔👌- 1) Whether it can stand alone or not
2) Based on their position (affix or prefix) 3) Grammatical function
What is linguistics? Ans ✔👌- Study of all things related to language
What is competence? Ans ✔👌- Your unconscious knowledge of what can and can't be said
What is performance? Ans ✔👌- How you actually use your linguistic competence to produce and understand speech
Define grammar Ans ✔👌- A complex system of rules that governs how speakers organize sounds into words and words into sentences
What are the 5 parts to grammar? Ans ✔👌- 1. Phonetics 2. Morphology 3. Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
What are the two approaches to grammar? Ans ✔👌- Prescriptive and Descriptive
Define prescriptive grammar Ans ✔👌- Its the rules of language
Define descriptive grammar Ans ✔👌- It studies and characterizes actual language of specific groups - has nothing to do with correctness
Define syntax Ans ✔👌- Sentence structure
Define semantics Ans ✔👌- meaning and interpretation of sentences
Define morphology Ans ✔👌- Deals with the structure of words
Define phonology Ans ✔👌- Its the sound combinations Define phonetics? Ans ✔👌- Deals with perception and articulation of speech sounds
What are the 5 characteristics of grammar? Ans ✔👌- 1. Generality 2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility 5. Universality
Define standard language? Ans ✔👌- 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? Ans ✔👌- - Still grammatical just is informal
What is register/style? Ans ✔👌- It is the distinction between familiarity and formality
What is the mental lexicon? Ans ✔👌- It is where we store sounds from which we create words
What kind of relationship does form and meaning have? Ans ✔👌- It is an arbitrary one
What is the smallest unit of language? Ans ✔👌- phoneme
What is the smallest unit of meaning? Ans ✔👌- morpheme
What are the three ways in which morphemes can be categorized in 3 ways? Ans ✔👌- 1) Whether it can stand alone or not
2) Based on their position (affix or prefix) 3) Grammatical function
