( )1. The word “above” includes 2 syllables, in which the sound [b] is the...

(  )1.        The word “above” includes 2 syllables, in which the sound [b] is the onset of the second syllable.
(  )2.        Modern linguistics are mainly diachronic.  
(  )3.        All rounded vowels are back vowels.
(  )4.        The word “in” is an open class word.
(  )5.        An inflectional morpheme alters the grammatical category of a word.
(  )6.        Linguistic forms with the same reference always have the same sense.
(  )7.        Context is not important to the semantic study of language.
(  )8.            Predication analysis is a way to analyze word meaning.
(  )9.        The pronunciation of English consonants only involves manner of articulation and place of articulation.
(  )10.        A small child may call any man “Dad”. This phenomenon is termed as underextension in psycholinguistics.
(  )11.        Grammatically well-formed sentences are not necessarily semantically well-formed.
(  )12.        The word chaos does not contain any inflectional suffix.
(  )13.        According to John Austin, performatives do not descript or report, and therefore, cannot be verified as true or false.
(  )14.        Compounding is the addition of affixes to stems to form new words.
(  )15.        Roots are always free.
(  )16.        In the antonym pair tall: short, tall is the unmarked item.
(  )17.        Warning performs a commissive act.
(  )18.        A Creole language is originally a pidgin that has become established as a native language in some speech community.

II. Fill in the blanks with proper terms.
1.        Phoneme __________can be described as voiceless alveolar fricatives.   
2.        Phoneme __________can be described as voiced dental fricatives.
3.        _____________ is the study of language in relation to society; it studies how social factors influence the structure and use of language.
4.        English has only _____________ inflectional morphemes.
5.        While the meaning of a sentence is decontextualized, that of a(n) _________ is context-dependent.
6.        If A is a kind of B, then in terms of semantic relation, B is a(n) _____ of A.
7.        All lexical items can be analyzed into a set of semantic features or semantic components which may be universal. This semantic theory is called ___________ Analysis.
8.        The hypothesis that claims that language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about is called_______.
9.        If three consonants could cluster together at the beginning of a word, the first phoneme must be __________.