LINA01 Final Exam questions with
verified answers to pass
What is linguistics? - correct answer ✔✔Study of all things related to language
What is competence? - correct answer ✔✔Your unconscious knowledge of what can and can't
be said
What is performance? - correct answer ✔✔How you actually use your linguistic competence to
produce and understand speech
Define grammar - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔1. Phonetics 2. Morphology 3.
Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
What are the two approaches to grammar? - correct answer ✔✔Prescriptive and Descriptive
Define prescriptive grammar - correct answer ✔✔Its the rules of language
Define descriptive grammar - correct answer ✔✔It studies and characterizes actual language of
specific groups
- has nothing to do with correctness
Define syntax - correct answer ✔✔Sentence structure
, Define semantics - correct answer ✔✔meaning and interpretation of sentences
Define morphology - correct answer ✔✔Deals with the structure of words
Define phonology - correct answer ✔✔Its the sound combinations
Define phonetics? - correct answer ✔✔Deals with perception and articulation of speech sounds
What are the 5 characteristics of grammar? - correct answer ✔✔1. Generality
2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility
5. Universality
Define standard language? - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔- Still grammatical just is informal
What is register/style? - correct answer ✔✔It is the distinction between familiarity and
formality
What is the mental lexicon? - correct answer ✔✔It is where we store sounds from which we
create words
verified answers to pass
What is linguistics? - correct answer ✔✔Study of all things related to language
What is competence? - correct answer ✔✔Your unconscious knowledge of what can and can't
be said
What is performance? - correct answer ✔✔How you actually use your linguistic competence to
produce and understand speech
Define grammar - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔1. Phonetics 2. Morphology 3.
Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
What are the two approaches to grammar? - correct answer ✔✔Prescriptive and Descriptive
Define prescriptive grammar - correct answer ✔✔Its the rules of language
Define descriptive grammar - correct answer ✔✔It studies and characterizes actual language of
specific groups
- has nothing to do with correctness
Define syntax - correct answer ✔✔Sentence structure
, Define semantics - correct answer ✔✔meaning and interpretation of sentences
Define morphology - correct answer ✔✔Deals with the structure of words
Define phonology - correct answer ✔✔Its the sound combinations
Define phonetics? - correct answer ✔✔Deals with perception and articulation of speech sounds
What are the 5 characteristics of grammar? - correct answer ✔✔1. Generality
2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility
5. Universality
Define standard language? - correct 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? - correct answer ✔✔- Still grammatical just is informal
What is register/style? - correct answer ✔✔It is the distinction between familiarity and
formality
What is the mental lexicon? - correct answer ✔✔It is where we store sounds from which we
create words
