Final Test                                 Files: 1 to 12

Total Points: 50

                                                Duration: 50 minutes

                                                Date: May 1st

                                                Place: Anderson 19

                                                Time: 3PM (section 8418)

                                                          4.05 PM (section 8415)

 

 

I. Very short Answer questions 1 X 10 = 10

 

Expected a one word answers. Not memory based, but understanding based questions.

 

 

II. Short answer questions         3 X 5 = 15

 

4-5 sentences answers expected. Be very clear. Beating around the bush and repetitions affect negatively.

 

 

III. Data Analysis.                                 25

 

Phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology,  historical linguistics, semantics.

 

 

IV. Bonus questions                              10

 

Guest lectures, Files 15.1 and 15.2.

 

 

Topics for Short answer questions:

 

•         Competence

•         Performance

•         Arbitrariness

•         Interchangeability

•         Discreteness

•         Displacement

•         Tone

•         Intonation

•         Speech Acts

•         Felicity Conditions

•         Aphasia

•         Broca’s Aphasia

•         Wernicke’s Aphasia

•         Conduction Aphasia

•         Dialect

•         Idiolect

•         Speech Community

•         Pidgin

•         Creole

•         Substratum

•         Superstratum

•         Language Shift

•         Family Tree Model

•         Wave Model

•         Martha’s vineyard

•         New York City R-lessness