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Higher Education

Module 3

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Question 1:

Cases of structural (or “syntactic”) ambiguity highlight ________.
a) how morphemes are interchangeable
b) the importance of context in understanding the meaning of sentences
c) how the placement of phonemes within sentence structure is critical for evaluating meaning
d) how new languages develop

Question 2:

The English language has ________ phonemes.
a) 12
b) 18
c) 25
d) 36

Question 3:

________ is often difficult to master because it requires closer adherence to the “rules” of grammar.
a) Spoken language
b) Pidgin
c) Written language
d) A phoneme

Question 4:

The study of meaning in language is referred to as ________.
a) semantics
b) syntax
c) morphology
d) phonology

Question 5:

When speakers of the same language differ from one another in the way they pronounce or pattern their phonemes, this produces ________.
a) phonology
b) dialects
c) morphemes
d) accents