Languages going extinct is a concern because...
It means the disappearance of irreplacealbe human culture
It can mean knowledge of the natural world would be lost
It puts field linguists out of work
Because many languages are not written, this can mean the loss of stories and traditions
Which of the following is NOT true?
Papua-New Guinea has over 800 languages
Mexico has hundreds of indigenous languages
There are fewer than 100 languages in India
There are some 6 to 7 thousand languages
Match the items.
Study of topics such as natural language processing
Studying ways in which linguistics can help language learning
Data collection on little-studied languages
Studies how languages have evolved
Synchronic analysis of language
Historical linguistics
Descriptive linguistics
Computational linguistics
Field linguistics
Applied linguistics
The smallest unit of meaning in a language is called its...
Phonemes
Morphemes
Symbols
Syntax
Which of the folllowing are rule systems studied in linguistics?
Phonetics
Morphology
Semantics
Phenomenology
Pragmatics
Which of the following is NOT true of the Sapir-Whort Hypothesis?
It deals with the relationship between language and culture
Its principle of linguistic determinism is embraced by most linguists today.
It assumes that we see the world through the lens of our native language
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