MTB quiz #1

study of words, how they are formed and their relationship to other words in the same language is called ___________________________

• Diphthongs

• Morphology

• Phonemic

• Fricatives

any method of writing a language, without judgment as to right and wrong, with a scientific understanding that orthographic standardization exists on a spectrum of strength of convention _________

• Pronominal

• Nominal

• Morphology

• Orthography

a term that alters or describe a pronoun or a noun, words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns and pronouns.

• Adverb

• Verb

• Adjective

• Noun

a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. It is a word or a phrase that act like a pronoun is called _______________

• Pronominal

• Nominal

• Verb

• Adverb

a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable,

• Fricatives

• Diphthongs

• Phonemic

• Phonetics

the smallest unit of sound that carries meaning is _________. Readers use it to distinguish between words.

• Phonetics

• Phonemes

• Diphthongs

• Fricatives

the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages is called ___________

• Fricatives

• Plosives

• Phonemic

• Phonology

a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis is called _______________

• Orthography

• Morphology

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

the study of the internal structure of words and forms a core part of linguistic study today.

• Semantics

• Combining

• Morphology

• Orthography

it studies the meaning of words and sentences

• Pragmatics

• Semantics

• Plosives

• Phonemic