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