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1. Which language belongs to the Indo-European language family?
a. Basque
b. Finnish
c. Welsh
d. Turkish

2. Which two languages do not belong to the Indo-European language family?
a. Hungarian and Finnish
b. Norwegian and Swedish
c. Romanian and Portuguese
d. Russian and Czech

3. Which Indo-European language has most native speakers?
a. English
b. Hindi
c. Russian
d. Spanish

4. When a student´s language fails to develop any further you speak of...
a. negative transfer
b. strategic incompetence
c. recursion
d. fossilization

5. The term interlanguage is used to refer to...
a. the language used in the interaction between teacher and student
b. the language used in the interaction between students
c. the language used in the interaction between two foreign students
d. the student´s language with elements of both L1 and L2

6. The process in first language acquisition which produces forms such as mans and foots is called...
a. overcorrection
b. overgeneralization
c. overkill
d. overemphasis

7. Penguin is a ... of bird.
a. homonym
b. synonym
c. hyponym
d. prototype

8. When describing the meaning of words in terms of +animate, -human etc. we describe...
a. semantic features
b. semantic roles
c. lexical relations
d. prototypes

9. The initial sound in thanks is a ...
a. voiceless dental stop.
b. voiced dental stop.
c. voiceless dental fricative.
d. voiced dental fricative.

10. The initial sound in that is a ...
a. voiceless dental stop.
b. voiced dental stop.
c. voiceless dental fricative.
d. voiced dental fricative.

11. The last sound in please is a ...
a. voiced alveolar fricative.
b. voiceless alveolar fricative.
c. voiced palatal fricative.
d. voiceless palatal fricative.

12. The last sound in thanks is a ...
a. voiced alveolar fricative.
b. voiceless alveolar fricative.
c. voiced palatal fricative.
d. voiceless palatal fricative

13. _______________ is an old language spoken in part of modern Turkey.
a. Phrygian
b. The language of Eden
c. God-given language
d. Divine language

14. According King James the 4th of Scotland “_____________ ” is the language of the Garden of Eden.
a. God-given language
b. Hebrew
c. Sign language
d. Phrygian

15. The words that sound similar to the noises they describe are called ________.
a. Phrygian
b. Onomatopoeia
c. ordinary talks
d. Interjections

16. _____________ are sounds that are usually produced with sudden intake breath.
a. Phrygian
b. Onomatopoeia
c. ordinary talks
d. Interjections


17. “ _____________” is above the vocal cords and acts as resonator for increases range of clarity of the sounds produced
a. Human tongue
b. Human Pharynx
c. Human mouth
d. Human Larynx

18. The sounds that are produced by the tongue tip and the upper front teeth are called ___________.
a. Dentals
b. Labiodentals
c. Bilabials
d. Alveolars

19. It is the sound ____ that is only produced by Glottals .
a. [f]
b. [p]
c. [d]
d. [ h]
20. “ ______________” is the study which deals with the physical properties of speech as sound waves in a language.
a. Phonetics
b. Acoustic Phonetics
c. Articulatory Phonetics
d. Auditory Phonetics

21. We use ________ to indicate a phoneme in a language.
a. ( )
b. [ ]
c. “ ”
d. / /

22. An example of inflectional languages is “_____________” language.
a. Mongolian
b. Turkish
c. Arabic
d. Japanese