
Linguistics
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- Q1What language family does English belong to?Indo-EuropeanUralicAfro-AsiaticSino-Tibetan15s
- Q2What is the term for a word that sounds like what it describes, such as 'buzz'?AlliterationOnomatopoeiaMetaphorHyperbole30s
- Q3What is the study of the sound system of language called?MorphologySemanticsPhonologySyntax30s
- Q4Which of the following is NOT a Romance language?FrenchGermanItalianSpanish30s
- Q5What is the term for the study of meaning in language?PhoneticsSyntaxPragmaticsSemantics30s
- Q6What is a dialect?A form of slangA written languageA foreign languageA regional variation of a language30s
- Q7What is the term for the study of the structure of words?SemanticsMorphologyPhonologySyntax30s