- 1. What is the smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word?
A) Morpheme
B) Grapheme
C) Phoneme
D) Sememe
- 2. The study of how words are constructed from smaller meaningful units is known as:
A) Phonology
B) Syntax
C) Morphology
D) Pragmatics
- 3. Which language family does English belong to?
A) Austronesian
B) Indo-European
C) Afro-Asiatic
D) Sino-Tibetan
- 4. What term is used to describe the study of the history of languages?
A) Psycholinguistics
B) Neurolinguistics
C) Historical Linguistics
D) Sociolinguistics
- 5. What is the study of how language is used in social contexts called?
A) Sociolinguistics
B) Semantics
C) Pragmatics
D) Syntax
- 6. Which term refers to the study of the sound structure of language?
A) Pragmatics
B) Phonetics
C) Phonology
D) Sociolinguistics
- 7. The rules governing how words are put together to form sentences is known as:
A) Semantics
B) Morphology
C) Pragmatics
D) Syntax
- 8. What is the term for the meaning of words and sentences in language?
A) Pragmatics
B) Morphology
C) Syntax
D) Semantics
- 9. What type of grammar aims to describe the unconscious knowledge that humans have about their language?
A) Transformative Grammar
B) Prescriptive Grammar
C) Generative Grammar
D) Descriptive Grammar
- 10. What is the name for the process by which a language changes over time?
A) Language Acquisition
B) Language Prescriptivism
C) Language Evolution
D) Language Standardization
- 11. Which linguistic theory proposes that language is innate and genetically inherited?
A) Structuralism
B) Universal Grammar
C) Post-structuralism
D) Functional Grammar
- 12. Which linguistic approach emphasizes the context and effects of language use?
A) Morphology
B) Syntax
C) Phonology
D) Pragmatics
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