39. In the sentence 'I took my big brown cat to the vet yesterday', which of the following does not appear? ____D___.
A. Adjective B. Preposition C. Adverb D. Conjunction
40. What is the meaning relationship between the two words “plant/grass”? ____C__. A. Homonymy B. Antonymy C. Hyponymy D. Allomorphs 41. The syllabic structure of the word “linguistics” is __B____. A. CVCCVCCVCC B. CVCCCVCCVCC C. CVCCVVCCVCC D. CVCVVCCVCC
42. The phonetic transcription with diacritics is called __D__.
A. broad transcription B. International Phonetic Alphabet C. American English Pronunciation D. narrow transcription
43. The Black English sentence “I don't gotta do nothing” is considered incorrect because: C
a) it contains a double negative and is thus inherently incorrect b) it is impossible to understand
c) it is not associated with the upper class use of standard English d) both a and b above
44. According to their ___B___, words can classified into closed-class and open-class words.
A. variability B. membership C. similarities D. functions 45. When language is used to \
A. evocative B. expressive C. directive D. performative 46. \
A. free morpheme B. derivative C. compound D. root. 47. The phrase “time is a commodity” is an example of___B____.
A. The Whorf Hypothesis B. A metaphoric system C. A non-standard variety D. A rich point
48. ____A___ is a type of phonological process by which one sound takes on some or all the characteristics of a neighboring sound.
A. Assimilation B. Transformation C. Code-switching D. interference
49. ___C____ refers to