SEM 4

SOAL UTS B INGG SUMBER

Ungkapkanlah kalimat-kalimat berikut ke dalam bahasa Indonesia.

1. The relation between a word and its meaning is a matter of convention: the animal called dog in English is called anjing in Malay and aso in Pilipino.

2. There is no necessary connection between the sounds people use and the objects to which these sounds refer.

3. Language is therefore socially learned behaviour, a skill that is acquired as we grow up in society.

4. All languages are equally complex; each language is part of the culture that produces it and is adequate for the needs of the people who use it.

5. No language is intrinsically better or worse than any other.

6. Another important difference is that animal systems are genetically transmitted.

7. For example, a kitten growing up among puppies does not learn to bark.

8. Human language, on the other hand, has to be learned anew by each speaker and is culturally transmitted.

9. Each speaker learns the language to which he is exposed, not necessarily the language of his parents.

10. A Vietnamese infant growing up in an American family will speak English, not Vietnamese.

11. The kind of grammar commonly taught in school before the coming of modern linguistics is called traditional grammar.

12. A major weakness of this grammar is that it is inconsistent in the criteria used for defining the parts of speech.

13. A free morpheme is one which can meaningfully occur alone.

14. Headed constructions are those in which one word can function for the whole group.

15. The second type of non-headed group is always introduced by a preposition.