What's Your Linguistic IQ?
8 Questions
| Total Attempts: 7588
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A simple quiz to test your basic knowledge of linguistics which involves, morphology, syntax, phonology, semantics, grammar, vocabulary, dialects and more!
Questions and Answers
- 1.What are the most basic units of meaning?
- A.
Letters
- B.
Words
- C.
Phonemes
- D.
Phones
- E.
Sounds
- 2.Which one does not rhyme with ballet?
- A.
Billet
- B.
Chalet
- C.
Bouquet
- D.
Wallet
- E.
A and D
- 3.Which of these is a daughter language?
- A.
Spanish
- B.
Germanic
- C.
Latin
- D.
Hellenic
- 4.Slang is most often created to
- A.
Exclude outsiders
- B.
Hide from people in positions of power
- C.
Disguise and disfigure a language
- D.
All of the above
- 5.
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What language is this?- A.
ASL
- B.
SL
- C.
Sign Language
- D.
No Language
- 6.Which is a child's strategy of language acquisition?
- A.
Bootstrapping
- B.
Overextension
- C.
Chunking
- D.
B & C only
- E.
All of the above
- 7.What is linguistics?
- A.
Analysis of language form
- B.
Analysis of language meaning
- C.
Analysis of language context
- D.
All of the above
- 8.Ok, an easy one. What is the correct answer
- A.
This one
- B.
Not this one
- C.
Nope
- D.
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