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100 Cards in this Set
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Language is innate to humans.
TRUE or FALSE |
TRUE |
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Production of sounds is enough for animal communication to be labelled as language. TRUE or FALSE |
FALSE |
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Non-verbal communication and sign language are the same. TRUE or FALSE |
FALSE |
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Non-verbal communication is studied in linguistics. TRUE or FALSE |
TRUE |
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What a man says is a reflection of how his brain works. TRUE or FALSE |
TRUE |
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The Inuit having different terms for snow is an example of how language is a mental TRUE or FALSE |
FALSE |
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Language is not always verbal, so "sign language" may be considered language. TRUE or FALSE |
TRUE |
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When language is seen as culture-shaped, it is seen as an individual product of creativity. TRUE or FALSE |
FALSE |
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Our family shape us and are factors in the success of acquiring language. TRUE or FALSE |
TRUE |
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Language is a form of intelligence. TRUE or FALSE |
FALSE |
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It is the scientific study of language and its structure. |
ANSWER: LINGUISTICS |
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Is non-verbal communication a language? A. Yes B. No |
ANSWER: B. NO |
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Sign language is not verbal. Is it really “language”? A. Yes B. No |
ANSWER: A. Yes |
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It is the arrangement of sound and symbol.
A. It is verbal communication B. It is linguistic communication C. It is a mental process D. It is culture-shaped |
ANSWER: A. It is verbal communication |
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Language is intertwined with culture. A. It is verbal communication. B. It is linguistic communication. C. It is a mental process. D. It is culture-shaped. |
ANSWER: D. It is culture-shaped |
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Human language can communicate about things that are absent as easily as about things that are present. |
ANSWER: Displacement |
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"Yesterday, I visited the museum and saw an incredible art exhibition. The paintings were truly inspiring.“ |
ANSWER: Displacement |
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In English, the sounds /b/, /æ/, and /t/ represent individual phonemes. Changing any one of these sounds in a word can create a new word (e.g., "bat" vs. "cat"). |
ANSWER: Discreteness |
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In some parts of the world, greetings may involve specific gestures, expressions, or even the use of particular phrases that reflect the norms of politeness and friendliness of the community which in turn is learned through exposure. |
ANSWER: Cultural Transmission |
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The written word "tree" in English has no inherent connection to the tall, woody plant it represents. The arrangement of letters t-r-e-e must be learned within the context of the English language. |
ANSWER: Arbitrariness |
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At one level we have distinct sound and at another level we have distinct meaning. |
ANSWER: Duality of Structure |
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Language is always changing through the addition of neologisms, new words or old words with new meaning, and the creation of slang. |
ANSWER: Dynamic |
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It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material |
ANSWER: Transference |
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This property of human language is known as productivity or creativity or reclusiveness. |
ANSWER: Productivity |
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After eavesdropping on their conversation, she texted everything down and sent the message to her friend. |
ANSWER: Transference |
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The word "gay" has undergone a semantic shift from primarily meaning "happy" to now predominantly referring to sexual orientation. |
ANSWER: Dynamic |
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What do these sentence suggest? I do eat banana as a good snack. Eat banana for a healthy snack. Banana is eaten by me to be healthy. |
ANSWER: Productivity |
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Language is used to talk about hypothetical ideas. |
ANSWER: Displacement |
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Onomatopoeia is an example to illustrate how language does not always show ______. |
ANSWER: Arbitrariness |
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The addressee
A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
ANSWER: A. Conative |
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The addresser A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
ANSWER: B. Emotive |
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This is used when language is used talk about itself. A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: A. Metalingual |
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This refers to the channel through which the message is sent through A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: B. Phatic |
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It involves use of beautiful words for aesthetic purposes A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
Answer: C. Poetic |
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It involves giving commands A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
Answer: A. Conative |
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The code A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: A. Metalingual |
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This refers to contact A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: B. Phatic |
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The context A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: D. Referential |
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The one sending the message A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
ANSWER: B. Emotive |
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"I am in love with you." A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
ANSWER: B. Emotive |
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Read this carefully. A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
Answer: A. Conative |
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Come here! A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
ANSWER: A. Conative |
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She is an example of personal pronoun. A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: A. Metalingual |
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I am so happy to see you! A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
ANSWER: B. Emotive |
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Shhhh. A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: B. Phatic |
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In the evening, when everyone is watching TV A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: D. Referential |
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She is an example of personal pronoun. A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: A. Metalingual |
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My heart longs for the soft beats of yours. A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: C. Poetic |
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Whhhaaat? I can’t believe it! A. Conative B. Emotive C. Metalingual D. Phatic |
ANSWER: B. Emotive |
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Errrr. What else? A. Metalingual B. Phatic C. Poetic D. Referential |
ANSWER: B. Phatic |
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It is also called theoretical linguistics, is the linguistic branch that studies the nature of language. |
MICRO-LINGUISTICS |
It focuses on the structural components of language. |
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It views language from a broader perspective. It as concerned with how language is acquired. |
MACRO-LINGUISTICS |
It focuses on the application of language in daily life. |
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It is the study of of the way sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived by human beings. |
PHONETICS |
Speech sounds |
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Deals with the study of perpetual response to speech as mediated by ear, auditory nerve and brain. |
AUDITORY PHONETICS |
A_DI_O_Y PH_N_TI_S |
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Deals with the study of articulation of speech sounds. |
ARTICULATORY PHONETICS |
A_TI_UL_TO_Y PH_N_TI_S |
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It studies the physical properties of sounds as transmitted from mouth to air and then received by ear drum |
ACOUSTIC PHONETICS |
A_C_US_T_C PH_N_TI_S |
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It deals with the forms of words, use of words and construction of words by small letters. It studies how words are formed into small meaningful units (morphemes). |
MORPHOLOGY |
Words |
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It is the study of how sounds are arranged in each language as organized units of speech. It also looks into the specifications in the distribution of sounds into small sound in each language. |
PHONOLOGY |
Phonemes |
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It is the study of meaning in a language. It focuses on studying the structure of meaning of words and making a sentence that is meaningful. |
SEMANTICS |
Literal meaning of phrases and sentences |
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It also deals with the meaning of language but is focuses on meaning in context rather than individual word meanings. |
PRAGMATICS |
Meaning in context of discourse |
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It is the study of phrase construction, clauses and sentences in a language. It deals with basic word orderfollowed in any languages. |
SYNTAX |
Phrases and Sentences |
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Andrea wants to study speech sounds and how they are produced. |
PHONETICS |
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Peter is interested in the influence of the place, people and channel in communication. |
PRAGMATICS |
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Gab’s research is in understanding the difference between male and female communication. |
PRAGMATICS |
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Lilibeth wants to study more about sound waves and frequency of human language. |
PHONETICS |
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Mary is interested in the basic unit of sound, phonemes. |
PHONOLOGY |
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Kyle wants to know the synonyms and antonyms of many words. |
SEMANTICS |
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Xenia enjoys how words are arranged to create phrases, clauses, and sentences. |
SYNTAX |
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Bea is curious about the many ways we create terms with roots and affixes. |
MORPHOLOGY |
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Cathy focuses on studying the basic unit of meaning. |
MORPHOLOGY |
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Fritzy focuses on identifying connotation and denotation. |
SEMANTICS |
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It is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics. |
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS |
Also called diachronic linguistics |
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It is the branch of linguistics that deals with the effect of society on a language. It has strong connections with anthropology, culture, and sociology |
SOCIOLINGUISTICS |
Generally used for the study of the relationship between society and language. |
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It is interested in studying and solving real-worl language-based problems through research and practical use. |
APPLIED LINGUISTICS |
Can help understand real-life problems in areas such as psychology, sociology and education. |
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It is an intra disciplinary field of linguistics that deals with comparative study of different languages. |
COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS |
Study of differences and similarities between languages |
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It is the study of the relationship between language and culture. |
ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS |
Language that have no written records. |
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It deals with the study how language is represented in the brain, how and where a brain stores knowledge of a language that we speak. |
NEUROLINGUISTICS |
It focuses on what happens in our brains |
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It deals with the study of the mental aspects of language and speech. |
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS |
Language is represented and processed in the brain. |
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It is the study of word origin, and it tells the story of how each word joins a language to express meaning. |
ETYMOLOGY |
Evolution of language |
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It focuses on the relationship between language and cognition, emphasizing conceptual structures and cognitive processes. |
COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS |
Mainly focus on how language is organized |
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It is an interdisciplinary field of linguistics that deals with the study and interpretation of style and tones in both written and spoken language. |
STYLISTICS |
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Ability to create grammatically correct utterances |
LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE |
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Ability to produce coherent and cohesive utterances |
DISCOURSE COMPETENCE |
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Ability to create sociolinguistic- ally appropriate utterances |
SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE |
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Ability to solve communication problems as they arise |
STRATEGIC COMPETENCE |
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One of the four dimensions of communicative competence which refers to the interpretation of individual message elements in terms of their interconnected- ness. A. Linguistic Competence B. Strategic Competence C. Discourse Competence D. Sociolinguistic Competence |
ANSWER: C. DISCOURSE COMPETENCE |
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This refers to the learning of pragmatic aspect of various speech acts, namely, the cultural values, norms. Which communicative competence is this?
A. Linguistic Competence B. Strategic Competence C. Discourse Competence D. Sociolinguistic Competence |
ANSWER: D. SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPETENCE |
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Area of communicative competence which is used to ask for clarification and repair miscommunication. A. Linguistic Competence B. Strategic Competence C. Discourse Competence D. Sociolinguistic Competence |
ANSWER: B. STRATEGIC COMPETENCE |
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This includes the acquisition of phonological rules, morphological words, syntactic rules, semantic rules and lexical items. Which communicative competence is this? A. Linguistic Competence B. Strategic Competence C. Discourse Competence D. Sociolinguistic Competence |
ANSWER: A. LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE |
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It is used in making distinctions that are behavioral such as the case of phonemic analysis and phonetic. |
ETIC PERSPECTIVES |
Outsider Perspective |
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It involves speech acts and situations that are confirmed as real, as perceived by the speech community, instead of the observations of the investigators and study backgrounds. |
EMIC PERSPECTIVES |
Insider Perspective |
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Jesicca is an Ilonggo who wants to conduct a study of the Hiligaynon language. From what perspective is she from? A. Etic B. Emic C. Syntagmatic D. Paradigmatic |
ANSWER: B. EMIC |
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Christian is not Chinese but he wants to study Mandarin and how this language shapes the perspective of its speakers. Which perspective is he from? A. Etic B. Emic C. Syntagmatic D. Paradigmatic |
ANSWER: A. ETIC |
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It specifies how a language should be used and what grammar rules should be followed. A. Prescriptive B. Descriptive |
ANSWER: A. PRESCRIPTIVE |
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It is a study of a language, its structure, and its rules as they are used in daily life including standard and nonstandard varieties.
A. Prescriptive B. Descriptive |
ANSWER: B. DESCRIPTIVE |
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What is the concrete use of language, what we exactly hear? A. Parole B. Langue C. Sounds D. Phonemes |
ANSWER: A. PAROLE |
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Which should be developed among our learners first at it will never change? A. Performance over competence B. Only competence C. Competence then performance D. It does not matter |
ANSWER: C. COMPETENCE THEN PERFORMANCE |
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It refers to the linear or sequential arrangements of linguistic elements in a language. |
SYNTAGMATIC RELATIONS |
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It can substitute for each other within a particular grammatical or semantic category. |
PARADIGMATIC RELATIONS |
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Which is primary true about speech and writing? A. Speech is primary, writing secondary B. Writing is primary, speech secondary C. Both speech and writing are primary D. Both speech and writing are secondary |
ANSWER: A. SPEECH IS PRIMARY, WRITING IS SECONDARY |
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