Linguistics Test: Practice Quiz! Trivia
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Linguistics test: practice quiz trivia! The English language is made of thousands of words, and if you consider yourself a linguistic, you are expected to know what most of them mean. Are you looking for a way to test out how wide your vocabulary goes? This quiz is the best challenge for you, how about you give it a try and see what new words you will learn. All the best!
- 1.Slang
- A.
Jargon and made up words from a foreign land.
- B.
Informal verbal communication that is generally unacceptable for formal writing
- C.
Is the non-continual and never-changing use and definition of words in informal conversation, often using references as a means of comparison or showing likeness.
- D.
Complete disregard of the english language by using formal words in a proper setting.
- 2.Polysemous
- A.
Words that have multiple meanings.
- B.
Words that have only one meaning.
- C.
Words that have mutiple meanings and spellings.
- D.
A word that has no meaning
- 3.Root
- A.
Foundations of all words that came before it.
- B.
A word that contains prefixes.
- C.
The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
- D.
A word that contains suffix and prefix at the same time
- 4.Bound Morphone
- A.
A morpheme which never occurs alone but is attached to other morphemes.
- B.
A morpheme which always occurs alone but is not attached to other morphemes.
- C.
A morpheme which always occurs and is attached to other morphemes.
- D.
A morpheme that is unattached to other morphemes but always occurs alone.
- 5.Homographs
- A.
Words that are spelled identically and pronouced differently.
- B.
Words that are spelled identically and possibly pronounced the same.
- C.
Words that are spelled differently and pronouced the same.
- D.
Words that are pronounced the same but spelled differently.
- 6.Homonyms
- A.
Words that are pronounced differently and spelled the same, but have the same meaning.
- B.
Words that are spelled the same and pronounced differently.
- C.
Words that are pronounced and possibly spelled the same, but with a different meaning.
- D.
Words that have one meaning but are spelled and prounounced differently.
- 7.Homophones
- A.
Words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings.
- B.
Words that are pronounced differently and spelled the same, but have the same meaning.
- C.
Words that sound different but have the same spellings and meanings.
- D.
Words that are the same but have different spellings and meanings.
- 8.Lexicon
- A.
A dictionary for people who speak at public events.
- B.
A speakers mental dictionary.
- C.
New vocabulary words.
- D.
Internet jargon
- 9.Morpheme
- A.
The smallest unit of linguistic meaning or function.
- B.
A unit of measuring syllables in poetry.
- C.
The structure of vowel pronouncation.
- D.
The largest unit of linguistic meaning or function.
- 10.Morphology
- A.
The science of breaking down sentence structure and meaning.
- B.
The identification, analysis and description of the structure of pro-nouns and other units of meaning in a language such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or unidentified context.
- C.
A chronological order of the structure of word formation.
- D.
A sub-field of linguistics that studies internal structure of words and relationships among words
- 11.Ebonics
- A.
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian base languages.
- B.
Languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family.
- C.
An alternative term used in 1997 for various dialects of the African-American English.
- D.
A language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages.
- 12.Etymology
- A.
The history of words; the study of the history of words.
- B.
The history of language; the study of the history of language.
- C.
The study of language and history of words.
- D.
The study of the history of language.
- 13.Phonology
- A.
Phonology is the study of how sounds are used in natural languages in North America.
- B.
Sounds in relation to regional language dialects.
- C.
The study of word sounds and the development of language arts.
- D.
The sub-field of linguistics that studies structure and systematic pattering of sounds in human language
- 14.Phonetics
- A.
Structure of language construction using complex language breakdowns.
- B.
The system of group languages and simple speech patterns
- C.
The study of language and how it relates to sound patterns
- D.
The system of speech sounds of a language or group of languages
- 15.Pragmatics
- A.
The technical term meaning, roughly, what the person speaking or writing actually meant, rather than what the words themselves mean.
- B.
Slow progression into the meaning of actual text.
- C.
Thinking and writing what is actually meant and understanding what is actually ment by those words.
- D.
A new way to figure out what the text means, rather than reading between the lines of the acutal text.
- 16.Semantics
- A.
The deciphering of anicent codes.
- B.
Finding the correct meaning instead of the broad definition.
- C.
The study of meaning, reference, truth, and related notions.
- D.
The study of linguistics of English writing and literature.
- 17.Syntax
- A.
The rules for sentences that apply to all writing and dialog.
- B.
The rules of sentence formation; the componet of mental grammar and structure of phrases and sentences.
- C.
The underlying meaning hidden in text in books.
- D.
The planning and use of words in grammar and structure of sentences and phrases.
- 18.Antonym
- A.
The word of seperate meanings.
- B.
The word of equal meaning.
- C.
The word of same meaning.
- D.
The word of opposite meaning.
- 19.Acronym
- A.
A word formed by adding the intial letters of to a sentence.
- B.
A word formed by combining the initial letters of a series or related words.
- C.
A word deleted by addition of letters and numbers.
- D.
A word that is created by adding intial letters to the beginning and end of a word.
- 20.Clause
- A.
A group of words containing a subject and predicate.
- B.
A group of words that do not contain a subject or predicate.
- C.
A word that only contain a subject.
- D.
A word that only contains a predicate.
- 21.Creole
- A.
Languge that is created by local populance to become the offical language of the region.
- B.
Language that is formed from the local populace to become the standard speech of the community.
- C.
A southern form of dialect, spoken in the south of America.
- D.
Pidgin language that has become the establish as the native language of a speech community.
- 22.Connotation
- A.
A new meaning that goes along with the suggested meanings.
- B.
An additional, suggested meaning as opposed to a literal, direct meaning.
- C.
The literal direct meaning of a word.
- D.
An additional, meaning of a word that are the same as the literal, direct meaning.
- 23.Cognate
- A.
Words that have the same root but different orgin.
- B.
Words that have the opposite linguistic root or orgin.
- C.
Words that have the same linguistic root or origin.
- D.
Words that have the opposite root but same orgin.
- 24.Denotation
- A.
The literal direct meaning of a word.
- B.
The literal opposite meaning of a word.
- C.
A word with no direct meaning.
- D.
A way to write the direct meaning of a word.
- 25.Metonymy
- A.
A direct challenge to the reader through the text.
- B.
A figure of speech that has nothing to do with the place or item mentioned.
- C.
A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another.
- D.
The crossing of two figures of speech in the same sentence.
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