Emojis
Design Features of Language
fə'nɛtɪks
The brain
Kids
100
This is the sign type (icon/index/symbol) that best describes this emoji when used to represent an app notification or sound or volume. 
What is a symbol?
100
Speakers of a language can hear their own speech and can control and modify what they are saying as they say it.
What is total feedback?
100
The phonemes /p/ and /b/ are plosive consonants made in this place of articulation.
What are bilabial consonants?
100
These areas of the brain are key in language processing and use.
What are Broca's and Wernicke's areas?
100
According to this hypothesis, the ability to acquire language is linked to biological age.
What is the Critical Period Hypothesis?
200
This is the sign type (icon/index/symbol) that best describes this emoji when used to represent congratulations, a celebration, or cheers.
What is a symbol?
200
Specific sound signals are directly tied to certain meanings.
What is semanticity?
200
This is how you would pronounce this IPA transcription:
aɪ skɹim ju skɹim wi ɔl skɹim fɔr aɪs kɹim
What is "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream"?
200
This illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound.
What is the McGurk Effect?
200
Observations about this language's development were made amongst Deaf children in schools and support theories of the innateness of grammar.
What is Nicaraguan Sign Language?
300
This is the sign type (icon/index/symbol) that best describes this emoji when used to represent nail polish, fingers, fingernails, or painting one's nails.
What is an icon?
300
Meaningful messages are made up of distinct smaller meaningful units (words and morphemes) which themselves are made up of distinct smaller, meaningless units (phonemes).
What is duality of patterning?
300
This IPA symbol represents the unvoiced, dental fricative consonant.
What is θ?
300
These are some problems associated with the evolution of features necessary for language amongst humans.
What are increased metabolic costs and increased risk of birth complications (due to increased cranial size)?
300
When kids say, "feets", "I knowed", or "I eated", they are demonstrating this phenomenon.
What is overgeneralization?
400
This is the sign type (icon/index/symbol) that best describes this emoji when it is used to represent a direction.
What is an index?
400
Language sounds exist for only a brief period of time, after which they are no longer perceived. Sound waves quickly disappear once a speaker stops speaking.
What is rapid fading or transitoriness?
400
These are the three nasal consonants in American English.
What are /m/, /n/, and /ŋ/?
400
This is a language disorder caused by injury to the brain.
What is aphasia? (see also: anomia)
400
These institutions contributed to the decimation of Native American languages by forcibly separating children from families and forcing them to use English exclusively.
What are boarding schools?
500
This is the sign type (icon/index/symbol) that best describes this emoji when it is used to represent the performing arts or drama
What is a symbol?
500
This refers to the idea that language-users can create and understand novel utterances.
What is productivity?
500
This is how you would transcribe this utterance into IPA: "Guggenheim 220"
What is /ˈgugənˌhaɪm tu-ˈtwɛnti/?
500
This is how one would transcribe "brain cells" into IPA.
What is /bɹeɪn sɛlz/?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! What sounds (in IPA) would make the following words plural?
Child
Kid
Tot
What are...
/ɹən/ (note: we also monophthongize the vowels in /ʧaɪld/ to /ˈʧɪldɹən/)
/z/
/s/