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Chapter I
Introduction2012
I. Decide whether each of the following statements is TRUE or FALSE:
1. Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
2. Competence and performance is distinguished by Saussure.
3. A synchronic linguistics is the study of a language through the course of its history.
4. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.
5. Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general.
6. A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks.
7. In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts
and checked against the observed facts.
8. General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole.
9. General linguistics, which relates itself to the research of other areas, studies the
basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any
linguistic study.
10. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of
the sounds to convey meaning in communication.
11. Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences.
12. The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is
called morphology.
13. Syntax is different from morphology in that the former not only studies the
morphemes, but also the combination of morphemes into words and words into
sentences.
14. The study of meaning in language is known as semantics.
15. Both semantics and pragmatics study meanings.
16. Pragmatics is different from semantics in that pragmatics studies meaning not in
isolation, but in context.
17. Social changes can often bring about language changes.
18. Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society.
19.
The
arbitrary
nature
of
language
makes
it
possible
for
language
to
have
an
unlimited source of expressions.