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1. The knowledge of systematic study of meaning is….
a. Phonology
b. Grammar
c. Syntax
d. Semantics
2. There are ten aspects of any speaker’s semantic knowledge, except…
a. Speakers generally agree when two words have essentially the same meaning – in a given context
b. Some sentences have one meaning
c. Speakers know whether something is or is not meaningful in their language
d. Speakers know how language is used when people interact
3. The one of disciplines with the systematic study of meaning which are interested in how individual classify is…
a. Philosophy
b. Psychologist
c. Psychological
d. Linguistics
4. The study of how languages organize and express meanings is…
a. Semantics
b. Linguistic
c. Linguistic semantics
d. Philosophy
5. In what age the child can produce two-word utterances?
a. 1-2 months
b. 6 months
c. 18 months
d. 24 months
6. “We use the term grammar to mean two things ; the implicit knowledge that a speaker has and the explicit description made by a linguist, or both”. That’s the idea that inspired by…
a. Halle and Chomsky
b. Dillon
c. Clark
d. Andy Murfee
7. Syntax is the knowledge about the classes of words, sometimes we called it…
a. Part of speech
b. Phrases
c. Sentences
d. Plural
8. When a question and an answer can go together in a conversation and the second is obviously related to the first, they constitute…
a. Contradictory
b. Adjacency pair
c. Meaning
d. Entailment
9. Sentences that has two statements may be related in such a way that if one is true. We called it…
a. Contradictory
b. Adjacency pair
c. Meaning
d. Entailment
10. What is the ambiguity?
a. The sentences that has one appropriate meaning
b. The sentences that has two words but different meaning
c. The sentences that has two meanings
d. The sentences that has no meaning
11. What is the antonymy?
a. Two words that make opposite statements about the same subject
b. Two words have same meaning
c. The sentences that has one appropriate meaning

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