1. The study of the sounds of language is known as: Morphology Phonology Syntax Langue

2. Which of the following words can be described as containing an affricate? pill budged hammer huffle

3. The study of the structure of words is known as: Phonology Multiplicity Sonorant Morphology

4. This early anthropologist is considered to be one of the giants of modern linguistics...who was it? Margaret Mead Edward Sapir Ruth Benedict Bronislav Malinowski

5. Spoken language is believed to have arisen in what early human group? Homo habilus A. afarensis Homo erectus Modern Homo sapiens

6. Ferdinand de Saussure made a distinction between speech and language. In his words, how did he label these two categories? parole and langue acoutez and langue acoutez and suave parlez and langue

7. Fricatives are formed by: a complete closure released with frictional noise narrowing the air passage a series of brief closures opening of the air passage

8. True or False : Sounds can be voiced or voiceless. True False

9. Noam Chomsky believes that there is a(n): a basic sentence structure Universal use of the word "mother" overwhelming number of elephants in Burma Universal mental grammar

10. One who studies language can be considered a(n): Ethnolinguist Anthropological linguist Linguistic anthropologist all answers are correct