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The document outlines various questions related to the structural aspects of language, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It covers topics such as articulation, minimal pairs, morphemes, syntactic structures, and conversational maxims. The questions are designed to assess understanding of these linguistic concepts.

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OAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM WEEK 2-

INTRODUCTION
🔹 Demonstrate understanding of the structural aspect of language, i.e., phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics

26. What is the place of articulation for the first sound of the following words: team, terrible, and
tantamount?
A. Alveolar B. Bilabial
C. Interdental D. Labiodental

27. Which set of words is a minimal pair?


A. Fair – fare B. Grace – graze
C. Pear – pair D. Wise – nice

28. Which of the following words has a first sound that is characterized as a voiceless bilabial
stop?
A. Brother B. Mother
C. Parent D. Sister

29. All of the following words contain a schwa sound EXCEPT __________.
A. messenger B. social
C. text D. twitter

30. Which of the following sets of words exemplifies diphthongs?


A. Reduce, reuse, start
B. Breakfast, tea, cheese
C. Teach, speak, listen
D. Cry, break, down

31. All of the following describe the aspects of suprasegmental phonology EXCEPT
__________.
A. it is not limited to single sounds
B. it involves stress-timing and intonation
C. it is otherwise known as the prosodic features of speech
D. it encompasses body movement, hand gestures, and facial expressions

32. Which of the following words does NOT have a bound morpheme?
A. Incorrect B. Infant
C. Stressful D. Teacher
33. What kind of morpheme involved in the affixational process is common in the words posted,
pictures, and fastest?
A. Derivational morpheme
B. Inflectional morpheme
C. Null morpheme
D. Zero morpheme

34. Which of the following BEST describes the word formation process called conversion?
A. It is the invention of a new word.
B. It is shortening a word to by deleting one or more syllables.
C. It is the process of forming a new word by joining two or more words.
D. It is the process of designating an existing word to a new syntactic category.

35. What is the word formation process that the words spork, Interpol, and brunch underwent?
A. Backformation B. Blending
C. Clipping D. Suppletion

36. All of the following sets of words exemplify derivational morphemes EXCEPT.
A. boards, larger, scribbled
B. colorful, distraction, conducive
C. godly, powerful, professional
D. talented, glamorous, patiently

37. How many morphemes are in the word crocodile?


A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

38. What kind of affix is present in the word misunderstanding?


A. Infix B. Circumfix
C. Prefix D. Suffix

39. A second language learner of English says estatue for statue and filum for film.
What morphophonemic process is involved in the given scenario where a vowel is added at the
beginning of the word or between the sounds?
A. Assimilation B. Elision
C. Epenthesis D. Vowel lengthening

40. Which of the following syntactic structures contains equivalent grammatical units which are
often joined by a coordinating conjunction such as in lost and found?
A. Structure of Complementation
B. Structure of Coordination
C. Structure of Modification
D. Structure of Predication

41. Which of the following exemplifies the syntactic structure of modification?


A. Be careful.
B. Money talks.
C. Pins and needles
D. Sympathetic colleague

42. Which of the following BEST describes the structure of a periodic sentence?
A. It is composed only of phrases and dependent clauses.
B. It has two clauses which are similar in length and word order.
C. It begins with the main independent clause followed by phrases and dependent clauses.
D. It begins with phrases or dependent clauses and ends with the main independent clause.

43. Identify the type of phrase that is enclosed in brackets in the given sentence:
The faculty likes to drop by the small chapel [adjacent to the clinic] before leaving.
A. Adjective phrase
B. Adverb phrase
C. Noun phrase
D. Prepositional phrase

44. All of the following sentences exemplify ellipsis in its structure EXCEPT.
A. Should I call you or you me?
B. The student who wanted to become valedictorian did.
C. I will do the dishes today if you will do the dishes tomorrow.
D. Anton teaches all the Research courses while Jay the Math courses.

45. Which of the following BEST describes syntactic ambiguity? It refers to


A. words having the same meaning
B. phrases which have the same meaning
C. words which have more than one meaning
D. phrases which have more than one meaning
46. Which word pair exemplifies hyponymy?
A. Pasta - spaghetti B. Beauty – pulchritude
C. Fly (insect) - fly (zipper)
D. Benevolent - malevolent
47. Since she wasn't able to get tickets for the first day of the concert, she availed herself of the ones for
the second day. (ones-tickets) What kind of linguistic reference is exemplified in the given sentence?
A. Anaphora B. Coreference
C. Deixis D. Entailment
48. Which of the following pairs of antonyms is a gradable pair?
A. Dead-alive B. Fast-slow
c. Happy-sad D. Hot-cold
B. Contradictory
49. Some senior high school students almost failed the exam in English. What is the sense property in the
given statement?
A. Analytic B. Contradictory
C. Synthetic D. Thematic
50. The phrase Filipino literature instructor could mean "an instructor who teaches Philippine literature"
or "a literature instructor who came from the Philippines." This case is an example of which
A. Grammatical ambiguity C. Deixis
B. Lexical ambiguity
C. Structural ambiguity
D. Syntactic ambiguity
51. Conversational Maxims are the cornerstone of H.P Grice's account of linguistic pragmatics of
communication. Which maxim states that one should not make his/her contribution more informative than
is required?
A. Maxim of Manner B. Maxim of Quality
C. Maxim of Quantity D. Maxim of Relevance
52. Which conversational maxim is violated in the given example?
Speaker A: How do you do today?
Speaker B: Oh well, you know. Same old me.
A. Maxim of Manner B. Maxim of Quality
C. Maxim of Quantity D. Maxim of Relevance
53. In a basketball event, only the officiating referee can call out infractions of rules and decide penalties.
Anyone else can shout a "foul but only the referee has the official word. Which felicity condition is
evident in the given speech act?
A. Essential condition B. Preparatory condition
C. Propositional content condition D. Sincerity condition

54. All of the following describe an indirect speech act EXCEPT:


A. it is mainly used by people in connection with maintaining politeness
B. it is evident when the syntactic form of utterance matches the illocutionary force
C. it is an utterance in which one speech act is performed indirectly by performing another
D. it is the lack of direct connection between the form of utterance and the intended meaning

55. Which of the following describes the appropriate illocutionary force in the given situation?

Librarian: (points to a signage saying Observe silence') Can’t you read? Students: Sorry, Ma 'am.

A. The librarian is telling the students to read the signage. B. The librarian is telling the students that they
are foolish. C. The librarian is telling the students to stop conversing in loud voices.
D. The librarian is asking whether the students are illiterate or otherwise.

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