Introduction to Linguistics (I Quiz)

_________ refers to the study of meaning and relationship of words

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Morphology

• Phonology

_______ refers to the study of language in context

• Morphology

• Phonology

• Pragmatics

• Semantics

_______ refers to the study of classification of speech

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Phonetics

• Phonemics

Who introduced generative grammar?

• Krashen

• Piaget

• Candlin

• Chomsky

Innate hypothesis is also known as _______ hypothesis

• Native

• Nativist

• Nativity

• Naive

Identify the incorrect statement about why to use 'Corpus' linguistics.

• Intuition alone is not enough

• Native speaker intuitions also unreliable

• dictionary explanation is not accurate

• learnt by detailed research

What is the smallest grammatical unit of speech?

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Lexeme

• Allomorph

______ morpheme can appear themselves as words.

• Free

• Bound

Which of the following is an example of three morpheme?

• desirable

• boyishness

• gentlemanliness

• salamander

Who used the term Morphology for the study of the form of words?