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SRIWIJAYA UNIVERSITYFACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATIONDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH EDUCATION
Semester ExaminationAcademic Year 2008/2009Course: Introduction to LinguisticsCode: GIG 211 / 3 CreditsIssued on: December 30, 2008Due: January 6, 2009, the latest at 17.00Submit your answer at LB Bukit Besar, or email meInstructor: Zainal A. NaningE-Mail:zainala.naning@yahoo.comDirections :a.Even though you refer to the textbook or other references, explain in your own words. b.You may give examples of English or other languages.c.Answer the question as completely and clearly as possible.1.What is linguistic ? What is language ?2.Describe the terms; linguistic knowledge and performance 13.How is language related to the brain ? what happens if your brains isinjured ?4.What is grammatically ? How do you determine it ?5.What is lexicon ?6.Give your own exalmples of English morphemes, words, phrases andsentences and explain their meaning !7.What does each of these terms mean ? Can you provide three examples ?- homophones- orthopists- orthography- hyponyms- noun-centered meaning- verb-centered meaning- entailment- contradiction- metaphors- idioms8.What is phonology ? What is phonetics ? Their differences ?9.How many rules of phonology are there ? What are the function of  phonology rules ? What is the importance of IPA ?10. Explain the term “language change” ! What kind of change ?
 
1.Linguistic is all things that are related to language. And language is thesounds, word, or anything that can be use to express a thinking of peole or creature to communicate.2.Linguistic knowledge (linguistic competence), understanding the rule of forming sentences in a language (what you know in your head)Linguistic performance (comprehenssion of speech), the real things yousay/produce/write when you use the language.3.There are a special part in the part brain that is thought to be critical folanguage comprehenssion. So, if our brain is injured, our language or speechcomprehenssion will be also injured or disturbed.4.Grammatically means in a grammatical manner. We can determine thelanguage is grammatically with two ways-“is it’s stucture correct ?” and “is itmeaningful ? “For example :I eats friedchicken -(uncorrect because the stucture is uncorrect)I eat friedchicken -(correct because the stucture is correct and it ismeaningful)Friedchicken eats me -(uncorrect-the stucture is correct but it is notmeaningful)5.Lexicon :-A word-book or dictionary. A vocabulary of terms used in connectionwith a particular subject.-Linguistic knowledge that exists in our head.-Component of the grammar contains all of linguistic knowledge.6.
No.Lingustic ItemsMeaningExample
a.Morphemes (M)Minimal meaningfullanguage unit/smallestlinguistic unitThe word “unbreakable”has three morphemes:“un”, a bound morphemes“break” and freemorphemes “able”. b.WordsSingle unit olanguageUnbreakable, go, active,etc.c.PharasesGroup of words thatfunctions as a singleunit in the sintax of asentences-the house at the end of thestreet-at the white housed.SentencesA set of wordexpressing astatement.Just do it now !, I like him,The cat wears a shoes.
 
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No.TermMeaningExamples
a.Homophones b.OrthoepistsSomeone who studies theway words are pronounced.c.OrthographyThe art of writing wordswith the proper letters,acoording to acceptedusage;correct spelling.d.HyponymsA word or phrase whosesemantic range isincluded within that of another word.- blue, red, white(color)- Kevin, Nick,Steven (Boy)- Fan, Komputer,Robot(elektronic)e.Noun-centered meaningNoun plays as a centralrole in the meaning andstructure of mostsentence.-f.Verb-centered meaningVerb plays as a centralrole in the meaning andstructure of mostsentence.g.EntailmentThe relationship betweentwo sentences where thetruth of one (A) requiresthe truth of the other (B)- The brick isred>< The brick is not white.- I likesweetness><Ilike sugar.- I don’t run><Iwalk h.ContradictionNegative entailment- Bob is a baby><Bob is anadult- He is princess><He isa girl- The game isfun><The gameis boringi.MetaphorsCreative extension oconcrete of terms- The walls haveears.- My new car is alemon.- My heart is gone. j.IdiomsA phrase whose meaning - I am in the ai
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