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