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Language and Linguistics Quiz

Test your knowledge about languages and linguistics with this engaging quiz! Dive into the fascinating world of language structures, characteristics, and varieties. Perfect for students and language enthusiasts alike.

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French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian

Have nothing in common with English

Belong to the Romance Language family

Are only spoken in Western Europe

Are mandatory classes in high schools

Which of the following is not a branch of linguistics?

Syntax

Cognitive linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Anthropology

English has a(n) _________ writing system

Consonant Alphabetical

Alphabetical

Semanto-phonetic

Syllabary

Which of the following is true of human languages?

They must have both a spoken and a written form.

They are only spoken in one form or style.

They can borrow words from one another.

The way we use language is known as

Linguistic competence

Linguistic performance

Universalism

A slip of the tongue made when speaking is known as

Ungrammatical

Affricate

Performance error

A free morpheme can occur by itself as an independant word. A bound morpheme can never stand on its own. True of false?

True

False

Which generations are a part of posterity?

Current generations

Future generations

Generations of the past

All of the above

Which sentence combines the following two sentences into one? A bus goes to the airport. It arrives every half hour.

The bus, that goes to the airport, arrives every half hour

The bus arrives every half hour, which goes to the airport

The bus which goes to the airport arrives every half hour

The bus goes to the airport which arrives every half hour

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Language and Linguistics Quiz

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