Phrase Structure Grammar is a method of structural description discussed by ____ in his book Syntactic Structures (1957).

___ essentially a structuralist tool for syntactic analysis, was first introduced by Bloomfield and systematized with theoretical formulations by Roulon Wells and Zellig Harris.

Bloomfield’s monumental work Language, the Bible of structuralists was published in ____.

The rules and principles governing the arrangement of words into such higher units like phrase and sentences is technically called _____.

___ are words which are identical in sound and spelling but different in meaning

____ is the process of word formation where a new word is formed by attaching a derivational affix to a stem.

The form to which an affix is attached is called a _____.

The part of linguistics that deals with the study of the structure of words is called ____.

___ is abbreviated to IPA.

When a sound which exists in a word pronounced in isolation or in connected speech is dropped in a compound or connected phrase, it is called _____.

___ indicated by + refers to the phenomenon of pauses in speech, the pause that we make between two words to make out the meaning

___ may be described as the degree of force with which a sound or syllable is pronounced.

Additional speech features such as stress, pitch, length etc., affecting speech sounds are called __.

A ______ is a natural division of speech

_____ are phonemically the same, but phonetically different.

_____ is the smallest distinctive unit of sound in the sound system of a language.

/p, b, t, d, k, g/ are called ____ consonants in English.

There are ___ pure vowels or monophthongs and __ diphthongs or vowel glides in English RP.

_____ are sounds during the articulation of which the tongue starts in the position of a particular vowel and moves in the direction of the position of another vowel, within a single syllable

_______ can be used as points of reference with which the vowels of particular languages can be compared.

___ are voiced sounds during the production of which the air escapes through the mouth freely and continuously, unaccompanied by any audible frictional noise.

The ______ system consists of the pharynx, the oral cavity, and the nasal cavity.

The _____system consists of the lungs, the muscles of the chest, and the windpipe (trachea).

A Course in General Linguistics is a work written by ___.

___ is the study of speech sounds in general, the articulation, transmission, and reception of speech sounds.

_____ languages are formed when two mutually unintelligible speech communities who do not share a common language come in contact and attempt to communicate for trading or other purposes.

A bi/multilingual person switching or changing from one language to another in conversation. This process is known as ___.

The term __________ refers to a situation where a speech community uses two varieties of a language for different functions.

The pronunciation of the ___, mainly educated speakers attained social status and is referred to as Received Pronunciation

The entire speech habits of an individual is called _________.

The study of dialects is known as _________.

The variety of language used by a particular group of individuals is called a_______.

Human language is _____.

Language exhibits _________.

According to E. Sapir, __________ is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.

What role does semantic analysis play in the development of chatbots and virtual assistants?

Which of the following is a key focus of compositional semantics?

Which subfield of semantics deals with the relationship between language, thought, and conceptual knowledge?

What aspect of language is studied in semantic fields?

Which of the following is an example of how semantics is applied in natural language processing (NLP)?

In semantics, what does 'entailment' refer to?

Which of the following is a central concern of lexical semantics?

What is the term for the semantic relationship where one word is part of the meaning of another word?

Which semantic theory posits that word meanings are understood relative to their usage in specific contexts?

What is the primary focus of 'syntax' as a field of study in linguistics?

Which of the following sentences contains an example of 'ellipsis'?

What is the function of a 'gerund' in a sentence?

Which of the following is an example of a complex sentence?

In linguistics, what does 'recursion' refer to?

Which of the following sentences demonstrates correct subject-verb agreement?