LINA01 Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is linguistics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Study of all things related to language
What is competence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Your unconscious knowledge of what can
and can't be said
What is performance? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- How you actually use your linguistic
competence to produce and understand speech
Define grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A complex system of rules that governs how
speakers organize sounds into words and words into sentences
What are the 5 parts to grammar? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Phonetics 2. Morphology
3. Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
What are the two approaches to grammar? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Prescriptive and
Descriptive
Define prescriptive grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Its the rules of language
Define descriptive grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It studies and characterizes actual
language of specific groups
- has nothing to do with correctness
Define syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sentence structure
Define semantics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- meaning and interpretation of sentences
Define morphology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Deals with the structure of words
, Define phonology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Its the sound combinations
Define phonetics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Deals with perception and articulation of
speech sounds
What are the 5 characteristics of grammar? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Generality
2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility
5. Universality
Define standard language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Its the variety of any given language
spoken by the most powerful group in a community
- held correct by a prescriptive grammarians
Define non-standard language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Still grammatical just is
informal
What is register/style? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It is the distinction between familiarity
and formality
What is the mental lexicon? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It is where we store sounds from
which we create words
What kind of relationship does form and meaning have? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It is an
arbitrary one
What is the smallest unit of language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- phoneme
What is the smallest unit of meaning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- morpheme
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is linguistics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Study of all things related to language
What is competence? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Your unconscious knowledge of what can
and can't be said
What is performance? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- How you actually use your linguistic
competence to produce and understand speech
Define grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A complex system of rules that governs how
speakers organize sounds into words and words into sentences
What are the 5 parts to grammar? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Phonetics 2. Morphology
3. Phonology 4.Syntax 5. Grammar
What are the two approaches to grammar? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Prescriptive and
Descriptive
Define prescriptive grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Its the rules of language
Define descriptive grammar - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It studies and characterizes actual
language of specific groups
- has nothing to do with correctness
Define syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sentence structure
Define semantics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- meaning and interpretation of sentences
Define morphology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Deals with the structure of words
, Define phonology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Its the sound combinations
Define phonetics? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Deals with perception and articulation of
speech sounds
What are the 5 characteristics of grammar? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Generality
2. Parity
3. Mutability
4. Inaccessibility
5. Universality
Define standard language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Its the variety of any given language
spoken by the most powerful group in a community
- held correct by a prescriptive grammarians
Define non-standard language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Still grammatical just is
informal
What is register/style? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It is the distinction between familiarity
and formality
What is the mental lexicon? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It is where we store sounds from
which we create words
What kind of relationship does form and meaning have? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- It is an
arbitrary one
What is the smallest unit of language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- phoneme
What is the smallest unit of meaning? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- morpheme
