SPEECH & HEARING UNIT
RHS DEPARTMENT
COLLEGE OF APPLIED MEDICAL SCIENCES
KING SAUD UNIVERSITY
FINAL EXAMINATION
COURSE No.
: RHS 261
COURSE NAME
: LINGUISTICS 1
COURSE INSTRUCTOR : Dr Wahab Owolawi
Total mark
Time
Date
: 50%
: 8.00-10.00 am
:
Student Name/ID
:
SECTION A
True or False
10 mark
Please correct only the false answers and circle the correct ones
1. According to Plato, speech is the representation of the
experience of the mind
T / F
2. Barry White says language is the expression of ideas by means
of speech sounds combined into words
T / F
3. In language, form refers to the meaning and use refers to the
way speakers select different forms that best fits the
communication context
T / F
4. Morphology is a language form that has to do with external
organization of words
T / F
5. Lexicon is a mental dictionary of words
T / F
6. The most rapid period of brain growth is during the first two
years of life
T / F
7. Hand preference is a totally reliable index in the prediction of
language dominance
T/ F
8. Syntax deals with the combination of words into phrases,
clauses and sentences
T / F
9. Universal grammar is the blueprint of languages
T / F
10. Linguistics is the scientific study of the systems or principles
underlying human languages
T / F
11. A person who has multiple knowledge of languages is a linguist
T / F
12. Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society
T / F
13. Paradigmatics is the horizontal arrangement of units of
sounds, letters, words etc
T / F
14. A bound morpheme can be used only in combination with
another morpheme
T / F
15. By age 4, children are using passive sentences
T / F
16. Action words can be subcategorized into transitives and
intransitives
T / F
17. Communication means that information is transmitted from
one place to another
T / F
18. Our perception and evaluation of any other person is strongly
influenced by his appearance
T / F
19. Most writing systems are attributed to divine source
T / F
20. The Egyptian hieroglyphics is said to have dated back to about
3300 AD
T / F
SECTION B
Fill in the gaps
10 mark
1. Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of
communicating ______________. ____________ and
____________ by means of a system of voluntarily produced
symbols
2. Syntax is the _______________ conventions for organizing
_______________ order
3. Acquisition of speech and language is clearly tied to
_______________ development and _______________ in the
infant and child
4. At one year, the average age at which the first word appears,
the brain is _________________ % of its full adult size
5. Children who have begun to develop normally and then sustain
cerebral injury, particularly to the left hemisphere, show a
language disturbance of an _________________ nature
6. An important part of language development during the school
age years is learning literate or more _____________ language
7. In structural linguistics, description starts from ____________
and moves on to ________________
8. According to Lyons, communication is an intentional
transmission of information by means of some established
____________________
9. In the dance model, the spiral of communication continues
indefinitely and no communication transaction has
__________________ boundaries
10.Archaeological discovery suggest that
__________________________ may be the oldest form of
writing
***KINDLY ANSWER SECTIONS 'C' AND 'D' ON THE
UNIVERSITY ANSWER SCRIPT
SECTION C
Short Answer
10 mark
Write a short essay on the followings:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Synonyms
Homonyms
Antonyms
Phonology
Define Phonetics and its 3 branches
SECTION D
Long Essay
Write a full essay on the followings:
1. Full Writing Systems
2. Alphabetic Systems
goodluck!
20 mark