INTRODUCTION TO

LINGUISTICS
REVISION FOR RETEST
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TEST CONTENT: 13 CHAPTERS
• Chapter 1: The Origins of Language
• Chapter 2: Animals and Human Language
• Chapter 3: The Sounds of Language
• Chapter 4: The Sound Patterns of Language
• Chapter 5: Word Formation
• Chapter 6: Morphology
• Chapter 7: Grammar
• Chapter 8: Syntax
• Chapter 9: Semantics
• Chapter 10: Pragmatics
• Chapter 11: Discourse Analysis
• Chapter 14: Second Language Acquisition/ Learning
• Chapter 18: Regional Variation in Language
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Question: Fill in the blanks with given words. Write the letters A – T.
A. input E. creole I. allomorphs M. dialect Q. communicative
B. dialectology F. bilingualism J. reflexivity N. isogloss R. transfer
C. interlanguage G. strategic K. prototype O. hyponym S. presupposition
D. arbitrariness H. output L. anaphora P. diglossia T. morphs

1. The idea of “the characteristic instance” of a category is known as the

K
____________.
A
2. The term __________ is used, as in L1 acquisition, to describe the
language that the learner is exposed to.
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Question: Write definitions for the initial sounds in the normal
pronunciation of the following words.

Example: cat → /k/ is a voiceless velar stop.

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Question: For each pair of words, write “Yes” if it is a minimal pair or

write “No” if it is not a minimal pair.

Example: see / sea → No

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Question: Identify the noun phrases in the following sentence.
Tom saw the girl with a telescope and she was driving a car.
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Question: Look at the following sentence. Write down the number of each morpheme type
and list morphs. Then, fill in the blank.

The learner’s eagerness shocked the English teachers at the center for foreign languages.
1. Lexical morphemes: How many?………..… Morph(s):……………………
2. Functional morphemes: How many?………… Morph(s): ………………….
3. Derivational morphemes: How many?………… Morph(s): …………………
4. Inflectional morphemes: How many?……….…. Morph(s):………………….
5. The words put in a closed class of words are………………………………………
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Question: Identify the different word-formation processes involved in
producing each of the underlined words in these sentences.
1. She plays the piano every Sunday.
2. They’re going to up the price of the beer here.
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Question: Complete the following tree diagram./ Draw a tree diagram to
represent the underlying structure of the following sentence.
The boy found the girl on a beautiful day.
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Question: What is the basic lexical relation between each pair of words
listed below?
1. furniture / chair
2. can / juice
3. flour / flower
4. car / automobile
5. shallow / deep
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Question: What is one obvious presupposition of a speaker who says:
1. Their two children often go to the cinema every Sunday.
2. The king of England is very smart.
3. Why does she not go to work today?
4. I regret telling you a secret.
5. What time did she go to the supermarket yesterday?