Purposive Com-prelim

Question 1

System of rules (grammar), a sound system (phonology), and vocabulary (lexicons) are the requirements for identifying a means of communication as a language.

Answer 1

Language

Question 2

People understand each other because they have the same set of rules in the language system

Answer 2

Speech Community

Question 3

Acquire the ability to comprehend or produce language either as their first or second (third, etc.) language

Answer 3

Language Acquisition

Question 4

First language learned by a per- son; native language

Answer 4

mother tongue

Question 5

Language you acquire in the community (e.g. English and Tagalog); used for public communication

Answer 5

second language

Question 6

Process of the second language learned formally in school, or informally on our own

Answer 6

Language learning

Question 7

Social and linguistic phenomenon by which speakers of different languages (or different dia-lects of the same language) interact with one another, leading to transfer of linguistic features.

Answer 7

Language Contact

Question 8

6 Elements of Communication

Answer 8

Sender
Message
Receiver
Channel
Feedback
Noise