4.01 Linguistics

What is the most widely spoken language family in the world today?

• Indo-European

• Dravidian

• Sino-Tibetan

• Malayo-Polynesian

Which of these is not one of the Indo-European languages?

• Germanic

• Greek

• Romance

• Sino-Tibetan

Which countries share the same language family with Japan?

• China and Malaysia

• China and South Korea

• China and South Korea

• North Korea and South Korea

Which language family is spoken in countries in the Pacific Ocean region?

• Uralic and Altaic

• Indo-European

• Malayo-Polynesian

• Dravidian

What are sound patterns that have meaning?

• semantics

• words

• grammar

• syntax

What term describes a variety of a language that is distinguished by pronunciation?

• semantic

• semantic

• dialect

• phonological

How are languages that come from basically the same source categorized?

• dialects

• families

• syntax

• semantics

"France controlled Vietnam from the 1850s to 1954, and the French influence is still evident in the languages used in Vietnam today."

Which term categorizes the French influence in Vietnam?

• dialect

• cultural diffusion

• language families

• semantics

What are the two types of linguistics?

• structuralist and  comparative

• semantic and descriptive

• comparative and descriptive

• structuralist and  descriptive

Which of these statements is false?

• Linguists study how people in different cultures use language to communicate.

• Linguists only study dead languages that have not been used for many years.

• Linguists examine languages to see how they change, and look at words for their meaning and structure.

• Linguists study both modern languages and dead languages that have not been used for many years.