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