Language analysis course: a terminology quiz

A phoneme is:
1. the smallest meaningful sound in a language
2. a sound which is meaningless
3. a pronunciation of a letter
4. a way to identify words
A minimal pair is:
1. a pair of words distinguished by a single sound
2. a pair of phonemes in different words
3. two allophones of the same phoneme
4. two words with the same pronunciation
A voiced sound is made by:
1. blocking the airstream
2. unblocking the airstream
3. vibrating vocal cords
4. making a /z/ sound
A vowel is produced when:
1. the airstream is blocked
2. the airstream is not blocked
3. the vocal cords are not vibrated
4. the vocal cords are vibrated
The difference in pronunciation between school and skill is the amount of:
1. lip rounding
2. vowel height
3. tongue position
4. emphasis
A weak form is:
1. a reduced form in rapid speech
2. a more softly spoken consonant
3. a changed vowel
4. an unvoiced consonant
Intonation refers to:
1. how loudly we speak
2. voice, pitch and tone
3. speeding up and slowing down in speech
4. accents
The slot test refers to establishing word class by:
1. using the syntax of the language
2. seeing how a word is formed
3. checking the word's meaning
4. looking at morphology
Function words:
1. carry no or very little intrinsic meaning
2. are not emphasised
3. join other words together
4. make no difference to meaning
Adjectives belong to:
1. a closed-class set
2. an open-class set
3. the same class as adverbs
4. modal classes
A bound morpheme
1. carries meaning only in combination with other morphemes
2. has no meaning
3. cannot be a word
4. combines with only one other word
An inflexional morpheme:
1. changes the grammatical form of a word
2. acts to derive new words from base forms
3. is a prefix or suffix
4. is a prefix
Conversion refers to:
1. changing word class but not form
2. making a new word by affixation
3. adding an inflexion to a word
4. making a verb in a different tense
English compound words are:
1. right headed
2. left headed
3. always noun + noun
4. always heads of phrases
Converse antonyms:
1. imply the existence of another entity
2. are made synonyms by inserting not before them
3. are gradable
4. are reverse synonyms
Homophones are:
1. words with the same pronunciation but different meanings
2. words with the same spelling but different meanings
3. words with the same pronunciation and meanings
4. words with different pronunciations
An idiom which can be understood easily by understanding the words in it has high:
1. transparency
2. fixedness
3. reliability
4. opacity
Polysemes are:
1. words derived from the same source with connected but different meanings
2. words which look and sound the same but have different and unconnected meanings
3. a type of synonym
4. a type of antonym
The words mouse, monitor, keyboard, laptop, icon, hard drive etc. belong to the same:
1. lexical set
2. semantic field
3. word family
4. collocation
We can't say *heavy wind because:
1. the adjective does not collocate with the noun
2. we can only say heavy rain
3. we need a different noun
4. we need to say wind is heavy
A hypernym:
1. includes the meaning of all its hyponyms
2. is another word for the same thing
3. is another word for hyponym
4. can be an antonym of another hyponym
Homographs are:
1. words spelled the same way with different meanings
2. words pronounced the same way with different meanings
3. words spelled as they are pronounced
4. words spelled differently in British and American English
A referent is:
1. the item a pronoun refers to
2. a pronoun referring to a noun
3. a determiner modifying a noun
4. a kind of non-personal pronoun
Reflexive pronouns are:
1. co-referential
2. not used in English
3. coordinating
4. without referents
English only distinguishes number on second-person pronouns with:
1. reflexive pronouns
2. accusative pronouns
3. nominative pronouns
4. reciprocal pronouns
The pronoun by can refer to:
1. the agent of a passive clause
2. the patient of a passive clause
3. only time
4. only place
If a pronoun refers back to a previous noun the reference is:
1. cataphoric
2. anaphoric
3. exophoric
4. hyperphoric
If a pronoun refers forwards to a later noun the reference is
1. cataphoric
2. anaphoric
3. exophoric
4. hyperphoric
Coordinating conjunctions must come:
1. between the phrases they coordinate
2. before the subject of the second clause
3. before subordinating conjunctions
4. after subordinating conjunctions
Demonstrative determiners:
1. refer to proximity and number
2. refer to number and gender
3. refer to number only
4. refer to distance only
A singular count noun cannot stand without:
1. a determiner
2. an article
3. a verb
4. a preposition
but is:
1. a subordinating conjunction
2. a coordinating conjunction
3. a correlative conjunction
4. a conjunct
either ... or is:
1. a coordinating correlative conjunction
2. a subordinating correlative conjunction
3. a prepositional phrase
4. a phrasal conjunction
The subject case is also called:
1. the nominative
2. the genitive
3. the accusative
4. the dative
The genitive refers to:
1. possession, origin or description
2. the subject
3. the object
4. a copular verb
The accusative refers to:
1. the direct object
2. the indirect object
3. the subject
4. a transitive verb
The entity acted on in a passive clause is the:
1. agent
2. patient
3. subject
4. object
The agent phrase in a passive clause is:
1. optional
2. compulsory
3. inclusive
4. exclusive
Prepositional verbs are also called:
1. verbs with dependent prepositions
2. phrasal verbs
3. phrasal prepositional verbs
4. prepositions with dependent verbs
Adverbials are:
1. any words or phrases which tell us more about the verb
2. always prepositional phrases
3. always adverbs
4. always noun phrases
I had been running all morning contains:
1. a present perfect progressive tense
2. a past perfect progressive tense
3. a continuous present tense
4. a continuous aspect tense
Punctual or instantaneous verbs cannot be:
1. progressive
2. stative
3. dynamic
4. transitive
The verb will can refer to:
1. ability
2. willingness
3. uncertainty
4. progression
A primary auxiliary verb:
1. combines with main verbs to form aspects
2. makes past simple tenses
3. makes future simple tenses
4. expresses habitual events
Epistemic modality refers to:
1. the likelihood of something being true
2. duties and obligations
3. abilities
4. perfect aspects
Deontic modality refers to:
1. the likelihood of something being true
2. duties and obligations
3. abilities
4. perfect aspects
A finite verb form is:
1. marked for tense or person
2. unmarked
3. marked only for tense
4. zero marked
The head of a phrase determines its:
1. class
2. position
3. ordering
4. determination
Matrix clauses must be:
1. subordinating
2. finite
3. coordinating
4. non-finite
A conditional sentence consists of:
1. protasis and apodosis
2. if + another clause
3. proleptic and adversative clauses
4. a phrase with would and another clause

Language analysis course: a terminology quiz

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