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1. (Choose 1 answer)
How many inflectional morphemes are there in this sentence? "She's older than John's
mother, but she used to be the fittest woman on her team and she's been staying fit and
lifting weights."
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
E. 9
F. 10
2. (Choose 1 answer) Does this group (cat, can, cow) contain a minimal pair, a minimal
set, or neither?
A. A minimal set
B. Neither of the above
C. A minimal pair
3. (Choose 1 answer) What is elision?
A. The process in which a vowel becomes nasal whenever it immediately precedes a
nasal.
B. The process of making one sound in isolation after the previous sound.
C. The process of not pronouncing a sound segment that might be present in the
deliberately careful pronunciation of a word in isolation.
D. The process in which two sound segments occur in sequence and some aspect of
one segment of one segment is taken or copied by the other.
4. (Choose 1 answer) What is the correct diphthong for the word "beard"?
A. /ei/
B. a
C. /ea/
D. /ir/
5. (Choose 1 answer) The use of GOED or WENTED is an example of:
A. overextension
B. holophrastic speech
C. telegraphic speech
D. overgeneralization
6. (Choose 1 answer) Choose one combination which is a prepositional phrase.
A. preposition + verb
B. preposition + article
C. preposition + pronoun
 D. preposition adjective
7. (Choose 1 answer)
Which process is involved in producing the word "comfy" in the sentence “I like this
sofa-it's nice and comfy."?
A. Conversion
B. Acronym
C. Hypocorism
D. Borrowing
8. (Choose 1 answer)
Which word is typically pronounced with the elision of a syllable?
A. camera
B. candidate
C. captivate
D. cannibal
9. (Choose 1 answer)
A French learner of L2 English who says "Give me the book blue” is showing
evidence of what?
A. an interlanguage
B. negative transfer
C. overgeneralization
D. fossilized learning
10. (Choose 1 answer)
What is V  (followed, helped, saw)?
A. a lexical rule
B. a surface structure
C. a phrase structure rule
D. a deep structure
11. (Choose 1 answer)
Which part of the following sentence is the VP?
"None of the people in the building supported the proposed rent increase.
A. increase
B. rent increase
C. proposed rent increase
D. supported the proposed rent increase

12. (Choose 1 answer)

Which of the following is NOT considered to be an ACQUISITION BARRIER?
A. self-consciousness
B. cognitive ability
C. demotivation
D. inhibition
E. embarrassment
F. lack of empathy
13. (Choose 1 answer)
In the sentence: WE WENT TO VIEW AN APARTMENT, BUT THE BEDROOM
WAS TOO SMALL, what allows us to connect THE APARTMENT and THE
BEDROOM?
A. Context.
B. Presupposition.
C. Anaphora.
D. Inference
14. (Choose 1 answer)
What is demonstrated in a DICHOTIC LISTENING TEST?
A. left ear advantage
B. right hemisphere dominance
C. contextual understanding
D. left hemisphere processing
15. (Choose 1 answer)
How many pragmatic markers are there in the sentence? – “They had been reading
something by Charles Wright, you know, the famous poet and well, I mean, he's
famous in America at least, but they don't really understand it."
A. One
B. Two
C. Four
D. Three
16. After how many MONTHS does the TWO-WORD STAGE typically begin?
A. 16
B. 18
C. 12
D. 14
17. (Choose 1 answer) Choose one example of blending.
A. fax
B. handbook
C. smoke
D. superman
E. brunch
F. bookcase
18. (Choose 1 answer)
... is the method of teaching a language that emphasizes interaction as both the means
and the ultimate goal of study.
A. The grammar-translation method
B. The audiolingual method
C. The communicative approach
19. (Choose 1 answer)
English doesn't really have a grammatical…as many other languages do it doesn't
have a masculine or a feminine for nouns
 A. mind
B mariner
C. gender
D. behavior
20. (Choose 1 answer)
Which lexical relation can be identified in the following sentence?
'If I don't want to spend too much, I take a small amount of cash in my pocket and leave
the plastic at home.”
A. Metonymy
B. Hyponymy
C. Synonymy
D Antonymy
21. (Choose 2 answers)
Which two processes were involved in the creation of the verb "google", as in “Have
you ever googled yourself?"
A. Acronym
B. Coinage
C. Synonym
D. Blending
E. Conversion
22. (Choose 1 answer) What is the role of Aunt Alice in “Peter sent Aunt Alice a birthday
card”
A. theme
B experiencer
C. goal
D. agent
E location
F source
23. (Choose 1 answer)
"John and Jack are good friends”. The word "and in the sentence is defined as...
A. a derivational morpheme
B. a lexical morpheme
C. an inflectional morpheme
D. a functional morpheme
24. (Choose 1 answer)
Which TWO of the following aspects of speech are NOT characteristics of BROCA'S
APHASIA?
A. effortful speech
B. distorted articulation.
C. functional morphemes overused
D. lacking grammatical forms E. only plurals marked
 F. reduced amount of speech
A. A and B
B. B and D
C. A and D
D. B and F
E. D and F
F. C and E
25. (Choose 1 answer)
Which two features enabled humans to produce extended sounds?
A. Producing the sounds in cries of emotion/social interaction in a group.
B. The respiratory system/the vibration of the vocal folds
C. Bi-pedal locomotion/the ability to produce a hum versus a grunt.
26. (Choose 1 answer)
In the first language acquisition of a child, in terms of developing syntax, there are…
stages of forming questions and negatives.
A four
B two
C. Five
D. three
27. (Choose 1 answer)
Which feature is NOT typical of CAREGIVER SPEECH?
A frequent questions
B. longer pauses
C. extra loudness
D. simplified words
E. repeated syllables
F. exaggerated repetition
28. (Choose 1 answer)
What kind of COMPETENCE requires familiarity with the pragmatics of the L2?
A. strategic
B. sociolinguistic
C. grammatical
D. task-based
E form-focused.
29. (Choose 1 answer)
Acoustic phonetics refers to… of speech as sound waves in the air.
A. meaningful properties
B. physical properties
C. the production
D. the perception
30. (Choose 1 answer)
Which of the following is an example of antonymy?
A. furniture/table
 B. damp/moist
C. deep/shallow
D. peace/piece
31. (Choose 1 answer)
Which word contains the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop sound?
A. Apart
B. Pretty
C. Which
D. Tenth
32. (Choose 1 answer)
Which parts of speech appear the most in the sentence below?
"The word itself is pretty easy to spell but hard to pronounce.
A. Adjective
B. Adverb
C. Verb
D. Preposition
33. (Choose 1 answer)
The study of the relationship between language and the brain is called...
A. Linguistics
B. Psychophysics
C. Neurolinguistics
D. Combinatorics
34. Which of the following is best defined “Inference”?
A. Showing awareness and consideration of another person's face
B. An act by which a speaker (or writer) uses the language to enable a listener (or
reader) to identify something
C. An act by which the speaker gives permission to the hearer.
D. Additional information used by the listener to create a connection between what is
said and what must be meant
35. Which theory is defined as the idea that early human speech developed from imitations
of natural sounds in the environment?
A. The Pooh-pooh theory
B The Innate ability
C. The Divine
 D. The Bow-wow theory
36. How many months before birth is the human auditory system already functioning?
A. around 3 months
B. around 7 months.
C around 4 months
D. around 6 months
37. (Choose 2 answers)
Which two elements are part of the referential meaning of "needle"?
A. pain
B. Sharp
C. Drugs
D. Thread
E. Thin
F. hard to find
38. Which of the following is NOT an example of homonyms?
A. pen/pen
B. meet/meat
C. saw/saw
D. race/race
39. Approximately how many years ago did written language develop?
A. 10.000
B. 7.500
C. 5.000
D. 3,000
40. What is the technical term for “difficulty in finding correct words”?
A. Broca's aphasia
B. agrammatic speech
C. conduction aphasia
D. anomia
E. Alzheimer's
41. (Choose 1 answer)
Regarding the origin of human speech, which of the following was based on the
Genetic Source?
A. The Pooh-Pooh theory
B. The Innateness Hypothesis
C. The Divine theory
D. The Yo-he-ho theory
42. Which sound can appear in word-initial consonant clusters?
A. /ŋ/
B. /dʒ/
C. /ʒ/
D. /l/
43. (Choose 1 answer)
Which of these phrases appears later than the others?
A. you didn't caught it
B. that not going
C. no sleeping here
D. nobody don't like me
E. we can't do that
F. I don't want it
44. (Choose 1 answer)
How do we describe the type of motivation involved in leaming an L2 to achieve a
specific career goal?
A. Integrative
B. Fossilized
C. Positive
D. Instrumental
45. (Choose 1 answer) What is morphology?
A. The study of the origin and history of a word
B. The study of forms
C. The description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language.
D. The study of how speech sounds are made
46. (Choose 1 answer)
What type of slip is illustrated by: “beel fetter” (instead of feel better?
A. Agrammatic
B. Anticipation
C. Perseveration
D. Exchange
 47. (Choose 1 answer) Identify the adverbs in: “The sly wizened old woman gave Snow
White a very shiny red apple.”
A. shiny
B. very
C. apple
D. gave
48. (Choose 1 answer) Which of these expressions can be used to rewrite V?
A. brought
B. with her
C. she
D. a dog
E the woman
F. Mary
49. (Choose 1 answer) Which phrase of the following contains a minimal pair?
A. a big meal
B. a small hole
C. a fat gost
D. a big black bag
50. (Choose 1 answer) Choose the word that contains two bound morphemes
A. bodybuilder
B. carefree
C. gigantic
D. motorists
E. seriously
F. believable
51. (Choose 1 answer)
What is the grammatical function of the phrase "IN THE AFTERNOON in this sentence?
"IT WAS A LOVELY DAY SO WE TOOK A PICNIC TO THE BEACH IN THE
AFTERNOON"
 A verb
B. adjunct
C. object
D. subject
52. (Choose 1 answer)
Which process is involved in producing the word "AIDS", as in “Don't they ever wony that they
might get AIDS”?
A Clipping
B. Hypocorism
C. Acronym
D. Blending
53. (Choose 1 answer)
Which of the following sounds is NOT described as a voiced fricative?
A. /ʒ/
B. /r/
C. /ð/
54. (Choose 1 answer)
What is a new word based on the name of a specific person or place called?
A. acronym
B. calque
C. derivation
D. eponym
E. etymology
F. neologism
55. (Choose 2 answers)
Choose the two phrases that could NOT be generated by NP Art (Adj) N?:
A. a huge tower
B. an old building
C. the new school
D. a museum
E. ancient castles
F. a room with a view
56. (Choose 1 answer)
Which of the following is the correct description of the sound [j]?
 A. Voice, velar, fricative
B. Voiced, palatal, glide
C. Voiceless, velar, fricative
D. Voiceless, palatal, glide
57. How do we refer to this phonetic symbol /ð/?
A. glottal
B. angma
C. eth
D. schwa