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Quiz about Linguistics
Quiz about Linguistics

Linguistics Trivia Quiz


I present to you some rather challenging queries on the world of linguistics...good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by thejazzkickazz. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
41,994
Updated
Apr 18 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
3611
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 104 (6/10), Guest 131 (4/10), Guest 95 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who was considered the 'Father of Linguistics', a Swiss guy, who authored the seminal book entitled 'Course in General Linguistics'? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What is the name of the linguistic school which attempted to uncover 'Discovery Procedures' that are internally imbedded, and compose the underlying units of language? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Since language is arbitrary, but contains 'Permitted Moves', what term best describes this view of communicational systems? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What three components, generally, make up a system of a typical language? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What is the smallest segment of sound, that comprises the basic building blocks of a language? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What is the term for unchanging, gliding vowels which combine two distinct vowel sounds into a single one? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. The morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How many morphemes would the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' have? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Which of the following is not a kind of morpheme that is found in most languages? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What are the two main structures found when deconstructing a sentence into a tree-diagram? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. After, we analyze the syntactical order and construction, and find it worthy of our 'Permitted moves', does it mean that it will convey an idea cogently to us?



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who was considered the 'Father of Linguistics', a Swiss guy, who authored the seminal book entitled 'Course in General Linguistics'?

Answer: Ferdinand de Saussure

2. What is the name of the linguistic school which attempted to uncover 'Discovery Procedures' that are internally imbedded, and compose the underlying units of language?

Answer: structuralists

Leonard Bloomfield's 'Language' laid down the science of language between 1933 to 1950, until Chomsky universalized the idea of language. The areas of phonological utterances were strictly analyzed, rather than the deep intentional structure...this is where they went wrong, since we know that utterances in general can be arbitrary.
3. Since language is arbitrary, but contains 'Permitted Moves', what term best describes this view of communicational systems?

Answer: games

4. What three components, generally, make up a system of a typical language?

Answer: phonology syntax semantics

5. What is the smallest segment of sound, that comprises the basic building blocks of a language?

Answer: phoneme

Phonemes on the average are 35 per language, English has 44 phonemes such as b, p, i, e, etc. The languages of the Caucasus may have the most with 89.
6. What is the term for unchanging, gliding vowels which combine two distinct vowel sounds into a single one?

Answer: diphthongs

7. The morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How many morphemes would the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' have?

Answer: 6

They are anti- , dis, establish, ment, arian, and ism.
8. Which of the following is not a kind of morpheme that is found in most languages?

Answer: strange

9. What are the two main structures found when deconstructing a sentence into a tree-diagram?

Answer: noun phrase and verb phrase

Noun phrase and verb phrases also can be decomposed into smaller bundles....NP= D and N, etc.
10. After, we analyze the syntactical order and construction, and find it worthy of our 'Permitted moves', does it mean that it will convey an idea cogently to us?

Answer: No

Source: Author thejazzkickazz

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