BS EnglishELL-103: Introduction to Language Studies

The Germanic languages include Danish, English, German and _______.
1. Welsh
2. Swedish
3. Greek
4. French
What is the relationship between Spanish word 'amigo' and Italian word 'amico' ? (Both have a common parallel 'friend' in English)
1. Synonyms
2. Cognates
3. Hyponyms
4. Family connection
The change of sound like 'frist→first' is called:
1. Metathesis
2. Epenthesis
3. Hypothesis
4. Prothesis
The addition of sound like 'spinel→spindle' is called:
1. Metathesis
2. Epenthesis
3. Prothesis
4. Hypothesis
The addition of sound like, 'schola→escuela (school) is called:
1. Prothesis
2. Metathesis
3. Epenthesis
4. Hypothesis
The loss of sentence order like Verb+Subject+Object in English is:
1. Semantic Change
2. Syntactic Change
3. Phological change
4. Morphological Change
The phenomenon of using 'foda' (fodder for animals) to talk about all kinds of 'food' is called:
1. Broadening
2. Narrowing
3. Spreading
4. Squeezing
The process which has overtaken the Old English word 'hund', once used for any kind of dog, but now, as hound, used only for some speciﬁc breeds is called:
1. Squeezing
2. Broadening
3. Spreading
4. Narrowing
The historical perspective of language change through time is called:
1. Synchronic variation
2. Diachronic variation
3. Horizontal variation
4. Syntactic variation
The process of studying differences within one language in different places and among different groups at the same time is called:
1. Synchronic variation
2. Diachronic variation
3. Vertical variation
4. Phonological variation

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BS English
ELL-103: Introduction to Language Studies