Exam 2: Linguistics and Language Study: Concepts and Terminology

The study ordering of speech sounds into the smallest meaningful groups is called----

The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called------

A person who has the ability to use only one language is called-----

The study of meaning is called----

-------refers to an individual's equal and native command of two or more languages

Which among the following implies the actual meaningful utterance of the individual speaking or writing a given language?

-------------is the study of how the mentally represented grammar of language is employed in the production and comprehension of speech

------is a monosyllabic vowel combination of a diphthong and a the weak vowel

A person who can use two languages is called-----

-------refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility

Which among the following is not a branch of linguistics

-------is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges

--------are the different concrete phonetic variation of the same phoneme

The older term used to designate the study of languages is------

A person who can use more than two languages:

The study of elementary speech sounds is called----

----------are gliding sounds during the articulation of which, the speech organs glide from one vowel position to another

Which among the following does not constitute the general methodology of science

Which among the following does not constitute the scientific nature of linguistics

----is the process by which one speech sound gets changed to another under the influence of another