MCQ Bank
Which of the following is a form of language loss that affects the speaker's ability to produce their native language with their native accent?
- A) Phonological
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Who among the following is known as arguably the first descriptive linguist?
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Who among the following says: Language planning is “an attempt to interfere deliberately with a language or one ofits varieties”?
- A) Wardhaugh
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At what age children begin to imitate activities and utterances from the people around them?
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Language planning can create as many problems as it intends or claims to ___.
- A) solve
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The rules that express the relation of deep and surface structures in sentences are called.
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According to Howes (1983) during preschool years, children begin to differentiate between friends and ___.
- A) playmates
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An etic study is often known as a/an study.
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Name the type of linguistic transfer where only the primary language plays a role in the acquisition process of a foreign one.
- A) Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
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The analytic study of language began around 500 BC in Greece and.
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Who among the following says: “Language planning is usually seen as an explicit choice among alternatives”?
- A) Fasold
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Children are exposed to imperfect language from the adults around them and yet they learn language.
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Planners deal with issues that affect organizations and societies (or polities) in which human beings.
- A) Interact
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A child enters a two-word stage of language at around months of age.
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Which of the following is a form of language loss that affects the ceeanericesats ahility to produce their native language with their native accent?
- A) Phonological
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At what age children learn their first words?
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Competence enables native speaker to recognize ___ sentences.
- A) ambiguous
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What particular term Chomsky uses for ‘the way in which people use language in everyday life’?
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In Haugen’s model, selection refers to a language or a variety, which will be developed for communication.
- A) Broader
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What specific name Chomsky uses for ‘the representation of language in the mind’?
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