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1. Spoken language is suspected to develop between ……
A. 100.000 and 50.00 years ago.
B. 10.000 and 5000 years ago.
C. 150.000 and 100.000 years ago.
D. 15.000 and 10.000 years ago.
2. The initial consonant in ‘thin’ is a …...
A. voiced dental stop.
B. voiceless dental stop.
C. voiceless dental fricative.
D. voiced dental fricative.
3. Informative signal is ……
A. a behavior that does not provide information at all.
B. a behavior used intentionally to provide information.
C. a behavior that provides information, usually unintentionally.
D. a behavior that shows the savage side in humans.
4. The words ...... form a minimal pair.
A. not and knot
B. bed and breakfast
C. leaf and leaves
D. site and side
5. All affixes (prefixes and suffixes) in English are ……
A. inflectional morphemes.
B. bound morphemes.
C. free morphemes.
D. derivation morphemes.
6. Bee communication has …… in an extremely limited form.
A. displacement
B. duality
C. arbitrariness
D. Productivity
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7. One of the most economical features of human language is ……
A. arbitrariness.
B. displacement.
C. productivity.
D. duality.
8. …… is the study of the perception of speech sounds by the ear, also called “perceptual phonetics”.
A. Auditory phonetics
B. Acoustic phonetics
C. Phonetics
D. Articulatory phonetics
9. …… is the process of reducing a word of more than one syllable to a shorter form.
A. Borrowing
B. Blending
C. Compounding
D. Clipping
10. The form ‘replay’ consists of ...... morphemes
A. one bound, one free
B. one bound, two free
C. one free, two bound
D. three bound
11. Ideograms are ......
A. not abstract at all.
B. more abstract than pictograms.
C. less abstract than pictograms.
D. as abstract as pictograms.
12. ...... is a sound produced by letting air flow around the sides of the tongue.
A. An affricate
B. A fricative
C. A liquid
D. A stop
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13. Arbitrariness is a property of language ……
A. that allows users to create new expressions, also called ‘creativity’ or ‘open-endedness’.
B. that allows users to talk about things and events not present in the immediate environment.
C. whereby linguistic forms have two simultaneous levels of sound production and meaning, also called ‘double articulation’.
D. describing the fact that there is no natural connection between a linguistic form and its meaning.
14. The merit of the yo-he-ho theory is that it ......
A. helps rediscover the original language.
B. is less speculative than other theories.
C. focuses on the lateralization of the brain.
D. places the development of language in a social context.
15. …… is the process of combining two (or more) words to form a new word.
A. Blending
B. Clipping
C. Borrowing
D. Compounding
16. …… is a way of writing in which each symbol represents a concept/an idea.
A. Ideographic writing
B. Logographic writing
C. Rebus writing
D. Pictographic writing
17. …… are sounds produced with the tongue and the palate.
A. Bilabials
B. Palatals
C. Labiodentals
D. Alveolars
18. How many types of free morphemes are there?
A. Three.
B. Four.
C. Two.
D. One.
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19. Our ancestors made a very significant transition to an upright posture, with bi-pedal locomotion. Bi-pedal means:
A. on two limbs.
B. on two feet.
C. on four feet.
D. on two feet and two limbs.
20. …… are sounds formed with the tongue tip behind the upper front teeth.
A. Bilabials
B. Dentals
C. Labiodentals
D. Alveolars