Linguistics Quiz

What does a transformation rule specify?

• Relationships among sentences that are transforms of each other

• Relationships among morphemes

• Relationships among phonemes

• Relationships among words

What is syntax concerned with?

• Formation of words

• Formation of sentences

• Formation of paragraphs

• Formation of letters

What is clipping?

• Combining two separate words

• Shortening a word

• Changing the function of a word

• Repetition of part or all of a word

Structural ambiguity arises due to:

• The meaning of a word

• The structure of a sentence

• The phonetics of a word

• The syntax of a sentence

Linguistic ambiguity arises when:

• A word has multiple meanings

• A sentence is grammatically incorrect

• A word has no meaning

• A sentence has only one interpretation

Surface structure is derived from:

• Deep structure

• Phonetics

• Semantics

• Syntax

What is a phrase structure tree?

• A tree drawn to represent phonetic relations

• A tree drawn to represent sentence structure

• A tree drawn to represent word meanings

• A tree drawn to represent morphological relations

Reduplication involves:

• Changing the function of a word

• Repetition of part or all of a word

• Combining two separate words

• Shortening a word

What is a derivational morpheme?

• A morpheme that reduces a word to form a new verb

• A morpheme that combines two separate words

• A morpheme that produces new words from a stem

• A morpheme that changes the function of a word

What are constituents in linguistics?

• Words with multiple meanings

• Parts of a sentence

• Words that form compounds

• Morphemes