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Example Questions
Example Question #1 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
How many morphemes are in the word "beaches"?
Morpheme refers to the smallest unit of language that carries meaning. In the word "beaches" there are two: "beach," and "es" which designates that the word is plural. By contrast, phonemes refer to the smallest units of sound.
Example Question #1 :Language
Which of the following is best defined as the smallest unit of language that carries meaning?
Grammar
Morpheme
Word
Phoneme
Concept
Morpheme
“音素”是语言的最小单位create sound; however, "morphemes" are the smallest units that carry a meaning.
Example Question #2 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
A gorilla which has learned a limited form of sign language gains the attention of its trainer and signs the incomplete sentence "treat, bring now."
This is most closely an example of which of the following?
Telegraphic speech
Overgeneralization
Syntax error
Babbling
Language drift
Telegraphic speech
Telegraphic speech is speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition, consisting of commands or imperatives given in three-or-more word sentences consisting of functional words only. A sentence like "treat, bring now" contains enough to make the message effective, if not particularly precise.
Example Question #111 :Experimental
Which of the following words contains an example of a cranberry morpheme?
Killed
Progeny
Deadly
Sublimation
Damaging
Progeny
A cranberry morpheme is a type of morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language) which has no independent meaning or function, but which still serves to distinguish one word from another. In this case,progenycontains the the cranberry morpheme '-geny', an obsolete term designating offspring which is also found inexogenyandendogeny.
Example Question #3 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
Which of the following words contains an example of a cranberry morpheme?
Barometer
Hinterland
Thermometer
Destroyer
Unapologetic
Hinterland
A cranberry morpheme is a type of morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language) which has no independent meaning or function, but which still serves to distinguish one word from another. In this case, the termhinterlandcontains the German wordhinter("behind"), paired with the free morpheme '-land'.
Example Question #4 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
The addition of a string of phonologically absent symbols onto a word creates which of the following?
None of these
Contraindicated morpheme
Cranberry morpheme
Allomorph
Null morpheme
Null morpheme
Null morphemes are theorized to be those morpheme strings which, while possessing no identifying characteristics, nonetheless allow us to differentiate between different forms of a word. Morphologists propose various theories for how these null morphemes may exist and whether or not we learn them naturally as part of the process of language acquisition.
Example Question #1 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
Which of the following pairs of words best illustrates the definition of an allomorph?
Helped. . . Trapped
Greatness. . . Grateful
Bubbles. . . Cats
Kindly. . . Unkind
All of these
Bubbles. . . Cats
An allomorph occurs when a morpheme varies in pronunciation but not in meaning. For example, the pluralizing morpheme "s/es" in English sounds like "z" inbubbles, but like "s" incats.Recognition of these allomorphs is often much more difficult for non-native speakers of a language.
Example Question #1 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
Which of the following pairs of words best illustrates the definition of an allomorph?
None of these
Wasted. . . Wished
Blasts. . . Hikes
Flavoring. . . Seasoning
Depth. . . Width
Wasted. . . Wished
An allomorph occurs when a morpheme varies in pronunciation but not in meaning. For example, the pluralizing morpheme "ed" sounds like a "schwa" inwastedbut like "t" inwished.
Example Question #1 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
Which of the following is notan example of a derivative morpheme?
Make. . . Maker
Sell. . . Seller
Wise. . . Wiser
Smile. . . Smiler
None of these
Wise. . . Wiser
Derivational morphemes change either the semantic meaning or the part of speech to which the base word belongs. For example, in the wordatypicalthe derivational morphemea-reverses the meaning of the wordtypicalto mean "not typical". The usage of the morpheme -erto change "wise" to "wiser", on the other hand, isinflectionalonly, as it only changes the comparative state of the associated adjectivewise.
Example Question #2 :Phonemes, Morphemes, & Phrases
Which of the following is notan example of a inflectional morpheme?
Drag. . . Dragged
Word. . . Words
None of these
Kind. . . Kindest
Cruel. . . Cruelty
Cruel. . . Cruelty
Inflectional morphemes are morphemes which modify either a noun/pronoun/adjective's number, gender, or case, or a verb's tense, mood, number, person or aspect, but do not chance the word's overall meaning or the part of speech to which the word belongs. The morpheme -tyat the end of the wordcruelchanges the word from an adjective to a noun, and is thus an example of aderivationalmorpheme.
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