Linguistics Final Exam questions well
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What are some of the universal characteristics of human languages? - correct answer ✔✔ 1.)
Sound based languages: All languages have a sound background.
2.) Composed of anywhere from 10-70 meaningful sounds.
3.) Have Consonants and vowel sounds
4.) Have a way of making statements, questions, commands, and exclamations.
5.) Have a way of making sentences negative.
6.) Have both noun like and verb like qualities.
7.) Have a way of indicating tense and aspect of words.
8.) Have grammar rules that allows deletion of parts of sentences or they can be moved.
9) Have a way of indicating case relationships between nouns and verbs.
10) Have at least two ways of combining shorter sentences into longer ones.
What are the inflectional morphemes of English and their functions? - correct answer ✔✔ 1.)
Plural: More than one
2.) Possessive: Ownership
3.) Comparative: Marks for comparison (Usually followed by than)
4.) Superlative: Marks a superlative (Usually followed by of)
5.) 3rd Person Singular Agreement: Agree with singular third person (his, her, or it)
6.) Past Tense: Happened in the past (ed)
7.) Past Participle: Marks the past participle (follows be or have)
8.) Present Participle:: Marks the present participle (follows be)
, What are the major periods in the development of English language? - correct answer ✔✔ 1.)
Pre-English
Language Influence: Celtic
Events: Settlement of the British Isles
2.) Old English (450-1100)
Language Influence: Germanic, Latin, Scandinavian, Norman
Events: Beowulf writings are composed
Battle of Hastings
3.) Middle English (1100-1450)
Events: Growing sense of Englishness
4.) Early Modern English (1450-1700)
Language: Latin & Greek
Events: First English Book published
Shakespeare becomes an author
5.) Modern English (1700-present)
Events: Developed North American, Australian, Asian, etc. countries
Language: Swahili, Hindi.
Regional and Technical Vocab
Linguistics - correct answer ✔✔ The scientific study of language
Phonetics - correct answer ✔✔ The study of the minimal units of language (The sounds of
spoken language)
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What are some of the universal characteristics of human languages? - correct answer ✔✔ 1.)
Sound based languages: All languages have a sound background.
2.) Composed of anywhere from 10-70 meaningful sounds.
3.) Have Consonants and vowel sounds
4.) Have a way of making statements, questions, commands, and exclamations.
5.) Have a way of making sentences negative.
6.) Have both noun like and verb like qualities.
7.) Have a way of indicating tense and aspect of words.
8.) Have grammar rules that allows deletion of parts of sentences or they can be moved.
9) Have a way of indicating case relationships between nouns and verbs.
10) Have at least two ways of combining shorter sentences into longer ones.
What are the inflectional morphemes of English and their functions? - correct answer ✔✔ 1.)
Plural: More than one
2.) Possessive: Ownership
3.) Comparative: Marks for comparison (Usually followed by than)
4.) Superlative: Marks a superlative (Usually followed by of)
5.) 3rd Person Singular Agreement: Agree with singular third person (his, her, or it)
6.) Past Tense: Happened in the past (ed)
7.) Past Participle: Marks the past participle (follows be or have)
8.) Present Participle:: Marks the present participle (follows be)
, What are the major periods in the development of English language? - correct answer ✔✔ 1.)
Pre-English
Language Influence: Celtic
Events: Settlement of the British Isles
2.) Old English (450-1100)
Language Influence: Germanic, Latin, Scandinavian, Norman
Events: Beowulf writings are composed
Battle of Hastings
3.) Middle English (1100-1450)
Events: Growing sense of Englishness
4.) Early Modern English (1450-1700)
Language: Latin & Greek
Events: First English Book published
Shakespeare becomes an author
5.) Modern English (1700-present)
Events: Developed North American, Australian, Asian, etc. countries
Language: Swahili, Hindi.
Regional and Technical Vocab
Linguistics - correct answer ✔✔ The scientific study of language
Phonetics - correct answer ✔✔ The study of the minimal units of language (The sounds of
spoken language)
