- 1. What is the smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word?
A) Grapheme
B) Morpheme
C) Phoneme
D) Sememe
- 2. The study of how words are constructed from smaller meaningful units is known as:
A) Phonology
B) Syntax
C) Pragmatics
D) Morphology
- 3. Which language family does English belong to?
A) Austronesian
B) Afro-Asiatic
C) Indo-European
D) Sino-Tibetan
- 4. What term is used to describe the study of the history of languages?
A) Sociolinguistics
B) Neurolinguistics
C) Historical Linguistics
D) Psycholinguistics
- 5. Which linguistic approach emphasizes the context and effects of language use?
A) Morphology
B) Pragmatics
C) Phonology
D) Syntax
- 6. The rules governing how words are put together to form sentences is known as:
A) Pragmatics
B) Semantics
C) Morphology
D) Syntax
- 7. What is the name for the process by which a language changes over time?
A) Language Evolution
B) Language Acquisition
C) Language Prescriptivism
D) Language Standardization
- 8. What is the study of how language is used in social contexts called?
A) Semantics
B) Syntax
C) Sociolinguistics
D) Pragmatics
- 9. Which linguistic theory proposes that language is innate and genetically inherited?
A) Universal Grammar
B) Structuralism
C) Functional Grammar
D) Post-structuralism
- 10. What type of grammar aims to describe the unconscious knowledge that humans have about their language?
A) Prescriptive Grammar
B) Generative Grammar
C) Descriptive Grammar
D) Transformative Grammar
- 11. What is the term for the meaning of words and sentences in language?
A) Morphology
B) Pragmatics
C) Semantics
D) Syntax
- 12. Which term refers to the study of the sound structure of language?
A) Phonetics
B) Phonology
C) Sociolinguistics
D) Pragmatics
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