CAMBODIAN UNIVERSITY FOR SPECIALTIES (CUS), PHNOM PENH

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Mid-Exam(Distance writing)

Total: 20 pts
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Linguistics
Subject: Morphology and Syntax
Lectured by Mr. CHON VIBOL
Level: master, H/P : 016 789 256
Full name: CHAN SAMNANG sex male University you are studying: CUS semester: final
batch: 09 examed date: --------------------time allowed: …….. mns
Important note!
Cheating and attempting to cheat will result in disqualification. If you are caught of, your
exam paper will formally be confiscated and a zero mark will be allocated to your name.
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I)Matching: 1) Match the following linguistic terms to their corresponding

synonyms/ definitions (10 pts)

1 lexicon a Word structure(01pt)

2 phonology b grammar(01pt)
3 morphology c vocabulary(01pt)
4 syntax d Sound system(01pt)

2) Match the following theories with their central figures

1 Contrastive analysis a krashen(01pt)

2 Error analysis b Dulay and Burt(01pt)
3 Interlanguage c Corder(01pt)
4 Morpheme order studies d Chomsky(01pt)
5 Monitor model e Lado(01pt)
6 Universal grammar F Selinker(01pt)

II)Multiple Choice Questions (10pts)

Circle the correct answer. There is only one answer that is correct.

1. Which phase of compiler is Syntax Analysis(01pt)

a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) None of the mentioned

2. From where it take its input from? (01pt)

a) Lexical analyser
b) Syntactic Analyser
c) Semantic Analyser
d) None of the mentioned
3. Parsers are expected to parse the whole code
 a) True
b) False

4.A grammar for a programming language is a formal description of(01pt)

a) Syntax
b) Semantics
c) Structure
d) Library
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5. Which of these is not true about Symbol Table? (01pt)

a) All the labels of the instructions are symbols
b) Table has entry for symbol name address value
c) Perform the processing of the assembler directives
d) Created during pass 1

6.The lexical analyzer takes_________as input and produces a stream of_______as output. (01pt)
a) Source program, tokens
b) Token, source program
c) Either of the two
d) None of the mentioned

7. Parsing is also known as(01pt)

a) Lexical Analysis
b) Syntax Analysis
c) Semantic Analysis
d) Code Generation
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8. A compiler program written in a high-level language is called(01pt)
a) Source Program
b) Object Program
c) Machine Language Program
d) None of the mentioned

9. System program such a compiler are designed so that they are(01pt)

a) Re-enterable
b) Non-Usable
c) Serially usable
d) None of the mentioned

10. Which of the following is not feature of compiler? (01pt)

a) Scan the entire program first and translate into machine code
b) To remove syntax errors
c) Slow for debugging
d) Execution time is more

11.Children use prosodic and phonotactic cues to __________________.(01pt)

a) maintain joint attention

b) articulate speech sounds
c)parse speech streams
d)pronounce difficult words

12______________ allow the grammatical inflection of words and are used to change the syntactic
class of words. (01pt)
 a) Graphemes
b) Allophones
c)Phonemes
d)Morphemes

13.Dog and his are examples of which type of morpheme? (01pt)

a) A grammatical morpheme
b) Free morphemes
c)Standard morphemes
d)Bound morphemes

14.A child says "Girl shoe lost" instead of "The girl's shoe is lost." The child's error is classified as an
error in which type of context? (01pt)

a) Grammatical context
b) Morphological context
c)Standard context
d)Obligatory context

15.Compared to other aspects of language development, which area of language development is

relatively invariant across children, proceeding in a largely uniform pattern in both the type and timing
of developments? (01pt)

a) Pronunciation
b) Semantic development
c)Vocabulary
d)Syntactic development

16.Your two-year-old sister is going through the process of learning to use and store the word
"excited." Which area of development does this process refer to? (01pt)

a) Morphological development
b) Phonological development
c)Semantic development
d)Syntactic development

17.Which of the following are the five categories within Nelson's semantic taxonomy?
a) Synonyms, antonyms, adjectives, nouns, verbs
b) Specific nominals, general nominals, action words, modifiers, personal–social words
c) Nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, articles
d) Nominals, modifiers, articles, personal–social words, verbs

18.____________ are the building blocks of cognition and are internalized representations of the
organizational structures of various events. (01pt)
a) Theories
b) Ideas
c) Schemas
d) Intentions

19.A child uses a higher pitch when pretending to be the "baby" in the dramatic play area of his
preschool classroom. He later changes roles and plays the "father," deepening his pitch and speaking
louder. These stylistic variations in language are examples of _________________.(01pt)
a) morphological development
b) register changes
c) reciprocity
d)interaction theories
20)what is not an example of an inflectional morpheme? (01pt)
a)-ing
b)-ed
c)-s
d)-ish
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