Full name:…………………………………………………..

Points:………………
Class:……………………………………………. December 31, 2020

TÊN HỌC PHẦN: DẪN LUẬN NGÔN NGỮ TIẾNG ANH, MÃ HỌC PHẦN: LAS526
Nhóm (lớp): DH19TA, CD42AV

Question 1: Fill in the blanks with given words in the box. (1 point)

minimal pair, productivity, free, minimal set, displacement, clipping, indirect,

functional, direct, blending

a. Humans can refer to past and future time. This property of human language is called ____
_______________.
b. When two words are identical in form except for a contrast in one phoneme, occurring in the
same position, the two words are described as a _________________.
c. In ________________, we typically take only the beginning of one word and join it to the end
of the other word, e.g. ‘brunch’ from ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’.
d. _____________ morphemes are morphemes that can stand by themselves as single words.
e. In a(n) _______________ speech act, we normally use a structure associated with a question
but with the function of a request.
Question 2: Why is reflexivity considered to be a special property of human language? (2 points)
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Question 3: Write definitions for the initial sounds in the normal pronunciation of the following
words. (1 point)
Ex: kin: [k] is a voiceless velar stop.
a. pot:………………………………………………
b. zebra: ………………………………………………
c. mother: ………………………………………………
d. love: ………………………………………………
e. wet: ………………………………………………
Question 5: Identify the different word-formation processes involved in producing each of the
underlined words in these sentences. (1 point)

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 a/ The WTO is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade..……
b/ They party every day and they make a lot of noise. …………………………..
c/ I would like to have eggs and French bread for brekky. …………………………
d/ Why do you want to work for this company? …………………………..
e/ Tom should have taken his dog to a vet. …………………………..
Question 6: Write down the number of each morpheme type and list morphs. (2 points)
Publishing a book or a paper doubles a writer’s happiness..
Lexical morphemes: How many? ____Which morphs? ___________________________
Functional morphemes: How many? ____Which morphs? ________________________
Derivational morphemes: How many? ____Which morphs? _______________________
Inflectional morphemes: How many? ____Which morphs? ________________________
Question 7: List the bound morphemes in the following words (1 point)
a/ misleads: ………………………………………………
b/ prettiest: ………………………………………………
c/ homelessness: ………………………………………………
d/ unprepared: ………………………………………………
e/ previewer: ………………………………………………
Question 8: What is one obvious presupposition of a speaker who says: (1 point)
a. My pet is very lovely. ………………………………………………
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b. She has stopped hitting that child. ………………………………………………
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Question 9: Draw a tree diagram to represent the underlying structure of the following sentence. (1
point)
The naughty boy broke a glass in the big sink.

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