LINGUISTICS 200 MIDTERM EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS!!
Which of the following is a prescriptive rule of English?
a) English stops are pronounced with a puff of air at the beginnings of words
b) Most Americans pronounce "bag" as [bæɡ] though many Seattleites
pronounce it [bɛɡ]
c) The verb "made" can either be both transitive or ditransitive
d) You have to use "lie" not "lay" when you're talking about reclining
e) Some form the comparative of the adjective "fun" as "more fun" while
others say "funner" Answer - c) You have to use "lie" not "lay" when you're
talking about reclining
Which of the following is NOT an example of how we use linguistic
performance to understand what is in a speaker's linguistic competence?
a) A speaker judges the sentence "anxiously cook feelings tiny large" to be
ungrammatical but "tiny large feelings cook anxiously" to be grammatical
b) Assuming that a speaker doesn't understand rules of English grammar when
they accidentally say "*I'm a lot more better" when they meant to say "I'm a lot
better"
c) Observing a speaker's allophones to understand the phonemes of their
language
d) A speaker rejected the made-up name *fnorpk for their puppy, preferring
snorp instead
e) It's actually the reverse. We study linguistic competence to understand a
speaker's linguistic performance Answer - b) Assuming that a speaker doesn't
, understand rules of English grammar when they accidentally say "*I'm a lot
more better" when they meant to say "I'm a lot better"
Which of the following is NOT an example of arbitrariness?
a) A rooster says kokekokko in Japanese but cockadoodledoo in English
b) Vervet. monkeys make a chattering sound when they see a snake but a
grunting sound when they see an eagle
c) A wolf bares its teeth to warn enemies it is going to bite
d) The inner core of a peach may be referred to as a pit, a stone, or a seed
e) All of the above are examples of arbitrariness Answer - c) A wolf bares its
teeth to warn enemies it is going to bite
In which articulatory feature(s) do the sounds [ɛ] and [u] differ?
a) Tenseness and backness
b) Backness and roundness
c) Height and tenseness
d) Height and roundness
e) Height, backness, tenseness, and roundness Answer - e) Height, backness,
tenseness, and roundness
The segments [p] and [θ] differ in terms of
a) Place of articulation
b) Manner of articulation
c) Voicing
d) All of the above
e) Place and manner of articulation Answer - e) Place and manner of
articulation
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS!!
Which of the following is a prescriptive rule of English?
a) English stops are pronounced with a puff of air at the beginnings of words
b) Most Americans pronounce "bag" as [bæɡ] though many Seattleites
pronounce it [bɛɡ]
c) The verb "made" can either be both transitive or ditransitive
d) You have to use "lie" not "lay" when you're talking about reclining
e) Some form the comparative of the adjective "fun" as "more fun" while
others say "funner" Answer - c) You have to use "lie" not "lay" when you're
talking about reclining
Which of the following is NOT an example of how we use linguistic
performance to understand what is in a speaker's linguistic competence?
a) A speaker judges the sentence "anxiously cook feelings tiny large" to be
ungrammatical but "tiny large feelings cook anxiously" to be grammatical
b) Assuming that a speaker doesn't understand rules of English grammar when
they accidentally say "*I'm a lot more better" when they meant to say "I'm a lot
better"
c) Observing a speaker's allophones to understand the phonemes of their
language
d) A speaker rejected the made-up name *fnorpk for their puppy, preferring
snorp instead
e) It's actually the reverse. We study linguistic competence to understand a
speaker's linguistic performance Answer - b) Assuming that a speaker doesn't
, understand rules of English grammar when they accidentally say "*I'm a lot
more better" when they meant to say "I'm a lot better"
Which of the following is NOT an example of arbitrariness?
a) A rooster says kokekokko in Japanese but cockadoodledoo in English
b) Vervet. monkeys make a chattering sound when they see a snake but a
grunting sound when they see an eagle
c) A wolf bares its teeth to warn enemies it is going to bite
d) The inner core of a peach may be referred to as a pit, a stone, or a seed
e) All of the above are examples of arbitrariness Answer - c) A wolf bares its
teeth to warn enemies it is going to bite
In which articulatory feature(s) do the sounds [ɛ] and [u] differ?
a) Tenseness and backness
b) Backness and roundness
c) Height and tenseness
d) Height and roundness
e) Height, backness, tenseness, and roundness Answer - e) Height, backness,
tenseness, and roundness
The segments [p] and [θ] differ in terms of
a) Place of articulation
b) Manner of articulation
c) Voicing
d) All of the above
e) Place and manner of articulation Answer - e) Place and manner of
articulation
