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FINAL EXAMINATION
INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

NAME: ____________________________________ DATE: _________________

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Strictly NO ERASURES. Any alteration or expurgation is considered wrong.

TEST I : MULTIPLE CHOICE. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. It is the smallest unit of sound in any language that causes a difference in meaning.
a. Phoneme c. Phonology
b. Phonetics d. Morphology
2. This linguistic concept deals with the contextual aspects of meaning in particular situations.
a. Phonology c. Pragmatics
b. Morphology d. Semantics
3. It deals with how words combine to form phrases, phrases combine to form clauses, and clauses conjoin to make sentences.
a. Syntax c. Discourse
b. Morphology d. Semantics
4. It studies the patterns of forming words by combining sounds into minimal distinctive units of meaning.
a. Syntax c. Discourse
b. Morphology d. Semantics
5. It deals with the level of meaning in language.
a. Morphology c. Semantics
b. Semantics d. Phonology
6. It studies the combination of sounds into organized units of speech.
a. Phoneme c. Phonology
b. Phonetics d. Morphology
7. It studies language at the level of sounds: how sounds are articulated by the human speech mechanism and received by the auditory
mechanism, as well as how sounds can be distinguished and characterized by the manner in which they are produced.
a. Phoneme c. Phonology
b. Phonetics d. Morphology
8. It is the study of chunks of language which are bigger than a single sentence.
a. Syntax c. Discourse
b. Morphology d. Semantics
9. This linguistic concept deals with the study of how language is used in real communication.
a. Phonology c. Pragmatics
b. Morphology d. Semantics
10. It deals with the study of the way phrases, clauses, and sentences are constructed.
a. Syntax c. Discourse
b. Morphology d. Semantics
11. These are group of morphemes that can stand on their own as independent words.
a. Inflectional Morpheme c. Free Morphemes
b. Derivational Morphemes d. Bound Morphemes
12. These are group of morphemes that cannot stand on their own as independent words
a. Inflectional Morpheme c. Free Morphemes
b. Derivational Morphemes d. Bound Morphemes
13. These group of morphemes never change the form class of the words or morphemes to which they are attached.
a. Inflectional Morpheme c. Free Morphemes
b. Derivational Morphemes d. Bound Morphemes
14. These group of morphemes are added to root morphemes or stems to derive new words. They usually change the form class of the
words to which they are attached.
a. Inflectional Morpheme c. Free Morphemes
b. Derivational Morphemes d. Bound Morphemes
15. It refers to a characteristic of a word that has more than one sense.
a. Lexical Ambiguity c. Syntactic Ambiguity
b. Synonymy d. Hyponymy
TEST II : MATCHING TYPE. Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on the space
provided before the number.
Column A Column B
_____1. The primary constriction is at the lips. a. Bilabial
_____2. The primary constriction is between the lower lip and the upper teeth. b. Labiodental
_____3. The primary constriction is between the tongue and the upper teeth. c. Interdental
_____4. The primary constriction is between the tongue and the alveolar ridge. d. Alveolar
_____5. The primary constriction is between the tongue and the palate. e. Palatal
_____6. The primary constriction is between the tongue and the velum.
f. Velar
_____7. Two articulators are brought together such that the flow of air
g. Glottal
through the vocal tract is completely blocked.
_____8. Two articulators are brought near each other such that the flow h. Stops
of air is impeded but not completely blocked. i. Fricatives
_____9. Articulations corresponding to affricates are those that begin j. Affricates
like stops and end like fricatives. k. Nasals
_____10. Articulation is one in which the airflow through the mouth is completely l. Liquids and Glides
blocked but the velum is lowered, forcing the air through the nose.

TEST III : IDENTIFICATION. The following are the Word-Formation Processes. Identify the correct
answer and write it on the space provided before each number.

Derivation Category Extension Compounding Abbreviation

Root Creation Clipped Form Blend Expounding
Acronym Proper Name Back Formation Affixes

_________________________1. Discern (V) – Discernment (N)

_________________________2. Sunset
_________________________3. Fast (Adj) – Fast (Adv)
_________________________4. Drugstore
_________________________5. SARS < Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
_________________________6. Colgate
_________________________7. Mike < Microphone
_________________________8. Xerox
_________________________9. Gym < Gymnasium
_________________________10. House (V) – House (N)
_________________________11. Hamburger < Hamburg (Germany)
_________________________12. TV < Television
_________________________13. Smog < smoke + fog
_________________________14. Woman (N) – Womanly (Adj)
_________________________15. Motel < motor + hotel
_________________________16. NASA < National Aeronautics and Space Administration
_________________________17. Beg < Beggar
_________________________18. Sandwich < Earl of Sandwich
_________________________19. Edit < Editor
_________________________20. Pronounce (V) – Pronunciation (N)

“Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” - Anonymous

Prepared by:
RONA JANE R. SANCHEZ
Instructor