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LING 200 – Exam 1 Concordia University 2024
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LING 200 – Exam 1 Concordia University 2024Instructions: Highlight (any way you want, just make sure it’s clear and easy to see) the answer
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1. For scientific purposes, language is best defined as:
(a) an exclusively human communication system
(b) an individual and intensional list of sentences, each potentially infinite in length
(c) a specific kind of knowledge containing a lexicon and a grammar
(d) a modality-independent socio-political convention
2. The word pair object ‘a concrete thing with material, physical properties’ and object
‘to express opposition or disagreement’ are examples of:
(a) homophones, but not homographs
(b) homographs, but not homophones
(c) neither homophones nor homographs
(d) both homophones and homographs
3. The fact that love is amore in Italian, Liebe in German, and upendo in Swahili (a language
spoken in East and Southern Africa) reflects the fact that:
(a) the relationship between form and meaning is predictable
(b) the relationship between languages is arbitrary
(c) linguists speak many different languages
(d) in principle, any form could be associated with any meaning
(e) there are no universal properties of language
, 4. A precise description of a person’s linguistic competence is a:
(a) universal grammar
(b) prescriptive grammar
(c) traditional grammar
(d) teaching grammar
(e) generative grammar
5. Syntactic transformations:
(a) derive an s-structure from a d-structure
(b) determine the meaning of a sentence
(c) allow sentences to be recursive, and thus infinitely long (at least in principle)
(d) derive a d-structure from an s-structure
The next 5 questions are based on the following sentence:
Reading has been recommended by the psychologists as the best kind of mental exercise.
6. How many NPs does this sentence have?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) 5
7. The subject of this sentence is:
(a) psychologists
(b) the psychologists
(c) reading
(d) exercise
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