Linguistics Quiz

..... is the study of production, transmission and perception of speech sound. It provides the foundational understanding of sound systems in languages.

• Phonology

• Phonetics

• Phoneme

• Pragmatics

.... is the study of the patterns of language. It is concerned with how sounds are organized in a language.

• Phoneme

• Phonology

• Morphology

• Morpheme

.... is the smallest unit of sound.

• phoneme

• phonology

• morpheme

• syntax

...... is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. It indicates information like tense, number, etc. (in- , -ed, -ing)

• morpheme

• phoneme

• syntax

• pragmatics

The structure of words into sentences with specific patterns to convey a message.

• Syntax

• Morphology

• Semantics

• Phonology

...... is the study of meaning in language. It is concerned with describing how we represent the meaning of word in our mind. Meaning is constructed based on context.

• Semantics

• Morphology

• Pragmatics

• Phonology

..... studies the factors that decide our choice of language in social interaction and the affects of our choices on others.

• Pragmatics

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Morphology

Reorder the following. 1 being the initial stage, and 6 being the last stage.

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Phonetics/Phonology

• Morphology