1. Displacement : allows language users to talk about things and events not present in the immediate environment.
2. The relationship between linguistic signs and objects in the world is described as: arbitrariness
3. Creating new expressions and novel utterances by manipulating their linguistic resources to describe new objects and situations is called :productivity
4. Cultural transmission :is the process whereby a language is passed on from one generation to the next.
5. The study of the characteristics of speech sounds is called phonetics
6. When the vocal folds are spread apart, the air from the lungs passes between them unimpeded. Sounds produced in this way are described as voiceless
7. A Vowel is a sound produced through the vocal folds without constriction of airflow in the mouth.
8. Articulatory phonetics is the study of how speech sounds are made,, or articulated.
9. These sounds and are bilabials
10. sounds is a stop sound.<<<<<< /g/
11. The initial sound of thin and the final sound of bath are both voiceless dentals
12. The initial sounds in the words shout and child are both voiced bilabials }>>>>>>تاكدوا لي من حلها بالله
13. sounds is a palatal sound?<<<< /j/
14. A combination of two vowel sounds is known as diphthongs
15. vowels of the both words bid and women are described as.<<<< [ı] <<<<<< [ı] <<
16. Phonology is essentially the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language.
17. right and write words are NOT considered as a minimal pair?
18. The study of the origin and history of a word is known as etymology
19. The combination of two separate forms to produce a single new term is also present in the process called blending
20. Acronyms are new words formed from the initial letters of a set of other words.
21. Morphology is the study of form or forms.
22. A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function is a morpheme
23. The underlined part of the word careless is known as a free morpheme
24. The word house is considered as a lexical morpheme
25. Which of these words has a derivational morpheme? payment
26. The underlined part in this sentence “The student saw a teacher” is considered as a noun phrase
27. A set of bound morphemes used to show if a word is plural or singular, past tense or not, a comparative or a possessive form is called as inflectional morphemes
28. Grammar is the process of describing the structure of phrases and sentences.
29. The underlined parts in this sentence “the lucky boys” are described as. -y derivational and -s inflectional
30. Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages.
31. Semantics is the study of the meaning of words, phrases and sentences.
32. The two words buy/purchase are synonyms
33. When two or more different (written) forms have the same pronunciation, they are described as homophones
34. Antonyms are two forms with opposite meanings.
35. The two words vegetable/carrot are hyponyms
36. Synonyms are two or more words with very closely related meanings.
37. The three sets of words (bottle/water), (car/wheels) and (king/crown) are metonyms
38. Cohesion is a relationship between words that frequently occur together.
39. The study of what speaker’s mean, or “speaker meaning,” is called pragmatics
40. Hedges are words or phrases used to indicate that we are not really sure that what we are saying is sufficiently correct or complete.
41. an Adjective is a word such as happy or strange used with a noun to provide more information.
42. The grammatical connection between two parts of a sentence, as in the connection between a subject (Cathy) and the form of a verb (loves chocolate) is known as agreement
43. Assimilation is the process whereby a feature of one sound becomes part of another during speech production.
44. Borrowing is the word formation process in which a word from one language is borrowed directly into another language.
45. The word workroom is an example of Compounding
46. The underlined letters in the word chemistry are pronounced as<<<< /k/
47. The underlined initial letter in the word sugar is pronounced as<<<<< /ʃ/
48. The underlined letters in the word picture are pronounced as<<<<<< /tʃ/
49. The underlined last letters in the word enough are pronounced as<<<<< /f/
Which of the following sounds is a glottal sound<<<<<< /h/
Happy<<<<adjective