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Chapters 1 - 6
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60
English
Undergraduate 2
09/25/2014

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Linguistic competence refers to the subconscious knowledge of one's language.
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True
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All animals have a language.
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False
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Bird songs tend to be species specific.
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True
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All researchers now agree that apes can learn language.
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False
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The fact that many new words are added to English each year demonstrates that English, like any language, is an open system.
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True
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Linguistic forms, such as words or sentences, have an arbitrary relationship to their meaning.
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True
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The fact that a person can talk about the past or anticipate the future illustrates the characteristic of language called displacement.
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True
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Some researchers believe that Kanzi processes a basic understanding of simple grammar.
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True
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Birds and bees generally learn most of their communication systems from other members of their social groups.
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False
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Recursion is the process whereby any linguistics unit can be made longer by embedding another unit in it.
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True
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Language change is very hard to control by decree.
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True
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Like the French academy, there is a successful academy that governs the English language.
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False
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Language change tends to occur first in the written language.
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False
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There is one common Standard English.
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False
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Descriptive rules typically appear in grammar books.
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False
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Multiple negatives in an English sentence have always been grammatically incorrect.
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False
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Prescriptive grammar rules are socially constructed.
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True
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Early dictionaries only included what were considered "hard" words.
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True
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According to the textbook How English Works, all dictionaries should be descriptive.
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False
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Corpus linguistics is prescriptive.
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False
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Vowels in English are always voiced.
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True
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Vowels are sounds that are produced with little or no obstruction of the air stream.
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True
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Consonants are sounds that are produced with no obstruction of the air stream.
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False
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There are five vowel sounds in English.
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False
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English is a tonal language.
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False
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Articulatory phonetics focuses on how speech sounds are produced.
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True
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Phonology is the study of the sound system in a particular language.
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True
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Each phoneme has meaning in and of itself.
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False
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Phonemes do not have meaning, but if one phoneme is substituted for another phoneme, it changes the meaning of a word.
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True
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English spelling often preserves an older pronunciation of the words.
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True
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Morphology is the study of how words are constructed out of phonemes.
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False
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Morphemes are the smallest recurrent meaningful units of a language.
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True
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A bound morpheme cannot stand by itself as a meaningful unit; it must be attached to another morpheme.
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True
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In a compound word, the primary stress will always fall on the second part.
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False
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The word books contains two morphemes.
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True
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All the morphemes in the word books are free morphemes.
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False
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The word schoolbags is made up of three morphemes.
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True
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Bound morphemes are of two general types, derivational and inflectional.
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True
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Derivational morphemes change the part of speech or the meaning of a form.
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True
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The un- in unsatisfactory is an inflectional morpheme.
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False
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The "bold" word in the sentence below is a verb.
The teacher quickly asked the boys and girls a "difficult" question.
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False
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English verbs have two voices.
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True
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Transitive verbs appear with a direct object.
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True
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Articles (a, an, the) are classified as determiners.
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True
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The words in, on, and up function as conjunctions.
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False
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FANBOYS is an acronym of all the possible coordinating conjunctions in English.
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True
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There are five major lexical categories of open-class words.
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False
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Prepositions belong to a closed-class category.
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True
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According to descriptive linguists, split infinitives are examples of incorrect usage.
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False
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Auxiliary verbs are often called helping verbs.
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True
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Most people, by the time they start to attend high school, consciously know the vast majority of heir language's syntactic rules.
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False
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All sentences have two major constituents, a subject and an article.
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False
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The following is a complex sentence: "If the phone rings, I will answer it."
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True
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Another name for a simple sentence is an independent clause.
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True
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The sentence "When I read for hours, my eyes get tired." is composed of two independent clauses.
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False
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"The biscuit was eaten by the baby." This is an example of a passive sentence.
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True
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A phrase is any constituent of a clause.
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True
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A noun phrase can function in a sentence as the subject, direct object, indirect object, and object of a preposition.
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True
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All English sentences minimally contain a noun phrase and a verb phrase.
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True
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Each point where branching occurs in a phrase marker is called a node.
Definition
True
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