PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
MORPHOLOGY
SYNTAX
SEMANTICS
SLA
100

Name three organs involved in speech production

three of these:  larynx, pharynx, vocal cords, nasal cavity, oral cavity, lips, and tongue

100

give three examples for content words 

nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs (any of them, for ex. bread, run, sad, slowly etc.)

100

What is the basic word order of a simple sentence in English?  give an example

SVO   Susan likes apples

100

Are deixis, reference, and speech acts concepts studied in semantics or pragmatics?

pragmatics


100

What is L1?

First language/native language/ mother tongue

200

Name three branches of phonetics

Articulatory, acoustic, auditory

200

How many morphemes are there in the word undesirability

four morphemes  un + desire + able + ity

200

What is the underlined part in the sentence below?
The police officer visits the prisoner in the jail.

Prepositional phrase (PP)

200

__________  is to show our consideration of another person’s self-image during the conversation. It can be  positive or negative

politeness



200

What is modified input?

Modified input is language that is adjusted or simplified so that learners can better understand the speaker’s meaning. 


300

Look at the following pair of words:
hat /hæt/ and cat /kæt/
They differ by only one sound but have different meanings.
 What is this called in phonetics?

minimal pairs

300

How do you analyze the word unpredictability morphologically

 un- → bound morpheme (prefix, “not”)
 predict → free morpheme (root)
 -able → bound morpheme (derivational suffix)
-ity → bound morpheme (derivational suffix)

300

What do we call a language that relies heavily on word order?

Configurational Language (e.g. English)

300

What semantic relation do White House  illustrate?

The White House announced new policies today.  

metonymy (White House - President)

300

what does i+1 mean in SLA?


i+1 in Second Language Acquisition means language input that is slightly above the learner’s current level, helping them understand most of it while learning something new.



444

onset, rhyme(nucelus+coda) - these are the constituent parts of a ___________

SYLLABLE

444

How many morphemes are there in the word undesirability

four morphemes

444

How do we call this type of constituent analysis in syntax? 

[S [NP The Cat][VP [V chased][NP the mouse]]] [S [NP [Det The] [N Cat]][VP [V chased][NP [Det the] [N mouse]]] 

labeled bracketing

444

Is the word lead (1. metal, 2. to guide or go in front) an example of:

A) Polysemy
B) Homograph
C) Homophone

homograph

444

What is the difference between Second language and Foreign language

A second language is an official or socially dominant language used for education, employment, and basic purposes, while a foreign language is not widely used in the learner’s immediate social context and is studied for future or cross-cultural communication.

555

The three English _ _ _ _ _ s are all voiced; [m] is bilabial, ram, [n] is alveolar,ran, and [ŋ] velar, rang

NASAL

555

The following are the common examples of ___________ • Machine noises—honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap, boing • Animal names—cuckoo, whip-poor-will, whooping crane, chickadee

Onomatopoeia

555

How do we call this type of constituent analysis in syntax? 

[S [NP The Cat][VP [V chased][NP the mouse]]] [S [NP [Det The] [N Cat]][VP [V chased][NP [Det the] [N mouse]]]

labeled bracketing

555

In hyponymy, for example:

 flower – orchid, rose; 

animal – cat, monkey;

 what do we call the first words (flower, animal, ) and the latter words (orchid, rose, cat, monkey)?

Super ordinate and subordinate

555

What concept does this example illustrate?

An Uzbek learner of English says: “She coffee very likes ” instead of “She likes coffee very much.”

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