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i. Answer Ten of the following questions:
1- What is ''bootstrapping'' ?
2- What is the implicature in the underlined turn in the following dialogue
Dorothy: I was told you baked a cake yesterday. Did it come out the way you wanted it to?
Linda: Tina helped me.
3- 3-Paraphrase the following sentence in two different ways to show the
Ambiguity involved?
My cousin , Paul , said he would quit smoking on Saturday.
4- Which of the following Cockney expressing refers to ''eyes''?
(a) orchestra (b) mince pies (c) seven hypotheses (d) biscuit and cheese
5- This is a sentence representing an English language game. Write it in its undistorted form.
Phamtroniarent dhamtronin nhamtroniot ahamtronilways khamtroninow bhamtroniest.
6- What is the equivalent British English expression to the American English expression ''flashlight''?
7- Paraphrase the following sentence in two different ways to show the ambiguity involved.
My sister has decided to draw big square and circle all over the walls.
8- Which of these sentences is not ambiguous?
(a) I do not know why people think that Adam is that kind.
(b) For sale : a cheap house by the bank.
(c)Annabel can not bear children.
(d) Wanted : Woman to take care of five rabbits in a small farm.
9- Which of these is not correct?
(a)Speakers can use idioms in informal speech.
(b) Speakers can change the order of words in an idiom.
(c) Idioms can be used in natural conversation
(d) Speakers can not replace a word with another in an Idiom.
10- Choose the correct completion : '' When children give the plural of ''speed'' as /spr:dz/, they actually show that they are using rules based on understanding of ………….
(a)gender differences
(b) classes of function and open words
(c) natural classes of phonological segments
(d) rules that state that the plural ' s' is pronounced {z} after voiceless sounds.
11- Paraphrase the following sentence in two different ways to show the ambiguity involved.
For sale : An antique vase owned by a95- year old man in wonderful condition.
12- Complete the following : Language learning is defined as'' …………. Knowledge of a second language , Knowing the rules , and being able to ……… about them.''
ii. Find in the following :
(a) two homonyms , (b) two retronyms, (c) two words that have the semantic properties – female and + adult , (d)two words that are examples of narrowing, (e) two words that make a pair of complementary antonyms, and words that can be examples of the overgeneralization rules used by children:
Tigress, dove, holiday, dreamed, mousse, crown, tolerant
Send, flour, present, computes, one-speed bike, fain, flower
Silly, hot. Receive, hound, teached, absent, whole milk
Father, worse, deer, elevator operator, cold, bachelor, paris
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