- 1. Who was the famous scientist known for his work in evolution and natural selection?
A) Isaac Newton
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Albert Einstein
D) Charles Darwin
- 2. Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for speech production?
A) Hippocampus
B) Amygdala
C) Cerebellum
D) Broca's area
- 3. Homo sapiens sapiens belongs to which hominin group?
A) Neanderthals
B) Australopithecus
C) Anatomically modern humans
D) Homo habilis
- 4. What is the basic unit of language that carries meaning?
A) Phoneme
B) Syntax
C) Morpheme
D) Semantics
- 5. Which theory suggests that human language began as imitation of natural sounds?
A) Bow-wow theory
B) Ding-dong theory
C) La-la theory
D) Ta-ta theory
- 6. What is the study of the sounds of human speech called?
A) Phonetics
B) Semantics
C) Morphology
D) Syntaxology
- 7. What is the organ responsible for producing speech sounds in humans?
A) Liver
B) Stomach
C) Kidney
D) Larynx
- 8. Which language family does English belong to?
A) Afro-Asiatic
B) Sino-Tibetan
C) Indo-European
D) Austronesian
- 9. What term describes the study of meaning in language?
A) Semantics
B) Phonology
C) Pragmatics
D) Syntax
- 10. Which language is considered the oldest written language in the world?
A) Latin
B) Sumerian
C) Greek
D) Chinese
- 11. What part of the brain plays a key role in language comprehension?
A) Temporal lobe
B) Wernicke's area
C) Occipital lobe
D) Frontal lobe
- 12. What term refers to the physical production of speech sounds?
A) Articulation
B) Prosody
C) Intonation
D) Phonation
- 13. Who proposed the theory of the evolution of language through social cooperation?
A) Steven Pinker
B) Noam Chomsky
C) Michael Tomasello
D) Daniel Everett
- 14. Who conducted experiments on vervet monkeys to study their responses to different predator calls?
A) Dian Fossey
B) Louis Leakey
C) Jane Goodall
D) Robert Seyfarth
- 15. What term describes the study of the structure of words?
A) Phonology
B) Syntax
C) Morphology
D) Semantics
- 16. Which language family does Mandarin Chinese belong to?
A) Indo-European
B) Austronesian
C) Afro-Asiatic
D) Sino-Tibetan
- 17. What is the term used to describe the study of how languages change over time?
A) Syntax analysis
B) Phonetics
C) Sociolinguistics
D) Historical linguistics
- 18. What is the name of the theory that suggests language shapes the way we think and perceive the world?
A) Cognitive dissonance
B) Linguistic relativity
C) Behaviorism
D) Functionalism
- 19. What is the term that describes the study of the social aspects of language use?
A) Sociolinguistics
B) Phonology
C) Pragmatics
D) Morphology
- 20. What is the term for the smallest distinctive sound unit in a language?
A) Phoneme
B) Morpheme
C) Grapheme
D) Allophone
- 21. What is the term for the study of the sound systems of languages?
A) Syntax
B) Phonology
C) Semantics
D) Pragmatics
- 22. Which linguistic term refers to the study of the history and evolution of words?
A) Derivation
B) Etymology
C) Conjugation
D) Stemming
- 23. What is the process by which children learn to speak and understand a language?
A) Syntax analysis
B) Pragmatic development
C) Language acquisition
D) Phonetic transcription
- 24. What is the term for the ability to produce and understand language?
A) Linguistic competence
B) Phonetic awareness
C) Syntactic flexibility
D) Lexical retrieval
- 25. Which linguistic theory suggests that language is a learned behavior influenced by environmental factors?
A) Generative linguistics
B) Cognitive psychology
C) Universal grammar
D) Behaviorism
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