…… is the process of reducing a word of more than one syllable to a shorter form.
A. Borrowing
B. Blending
C. Compounding
D.Clipping
The form ‘replay’ consists of ...... morphemes
A. one bound, one free
B. one bound, two free
C. one free, two bound
D. three bound
The initial consonant in ‘thin’ is a …...
A. voiced dental stop.
B. voiceless dental stop.
C. voiceless dental fricative.
D. voiced dental fricative.
The words ...... form a minimal pair.
A. not and knot
B. bed and breakfast
C. leaf and leaves
D. site and side
All affixes (prefixes and suffixes) in English are ……
A. inflectional morphemes.
B. bound morphemes.
C. free morphemes.
D. derivation morphemes.
Bee communication has …… in an extremely limited form.
A. displacement
B. duality
C. arbitrariness
D.Productivity
One of the most economical features of human language is ……
A. arbitrariness.
B. displacement.
C. productivity.
D. duality
...... is a sound produced by letting air flow around the sides of the tongue.
A. An affricate
B. A fricative
C. A liquid
D. A stop
Arbitrariness is a property of language ……
A. that allows users to create new expressions, also called ‘creativity’ or ‘open-endedness’.
B. that allows users to talk about things and events not present in the immediate environment.
C. whereby linguistic forms have two simultaneous levels of sound production and meaning, also called ‘double articulation’.
D. describing the fact that there is no natural connection between a linguistic form and its meaning
is the process of combining two (or more) words to form a new word.
A. Blending
B. Clipping
C. Borrowing
D. Compounding
…… are sounds produced with the tongue and the palate.
A. Bilabials
B. Palatals
C. Labiodentals
D. Alveolars
How many types of free morphemes are there?
A. Three.
B. Four.
C.Two.
D. One.
are sounds formed with the tongue tip behind the upper front teeth.
A. Bilabials
B. Dentals
C. Labiodentals
D. Alveolar