1. Lexical analysis test
I- True or false. (2 points each) __/14
1) ____ Noam Chomsky is the leading figure in theoretical linguistics.
2) ____ The term ¨dialect¨is used to refer to a subordinate variety of a language.
3) ____ The modern languages are historically derived from a common Nordic ancestor.
4) ____ All the american words has the same spelling that the word from the Britain
English Norms.
5) ____ An accent is a way of pronouncing a variety.
6) ____ A dialect varies form another dialects of the same language.
7) ____ Patterns of social interaction often trascend language boundaries.
II- Completion (2 points each) ___/ 22
1) The notion of _______________ and __________________ are fundamental to
understanding the way in which social groups organize their ____________________ .
2) There is not necessary one to one relationship between ___________ and
_____________.
3) There are at least 3 levels of speech in terms of selection of near synonyms for
certain words; __________, _____________ and ____________ .
4) All languages give ____________to concepts of cultural importance in grammar like
___________ and _____________.
