Stuff 1
They are sounds that are articulated without constricting the airflow.
What are vowels?
This is a recently used linguistic expression.
What is a neologism?
p,t,k
What are voiceless stops?
The study of words and how they are formed
What is Morphology?
Sounds made with air passing through the nose.
What are nasals?
The study of sentence structure
What is Syntax?
This is an observation of the way speakers of a language actually use their grammar.
What is descriptive grammar?
ŋ
What is a voiced velar nasal?
Now known more for political work, this linguist came up with the concept of universal grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
This is an observation of how grammar should be used in a language.
What is prescriptive grammar?
The Chinese language family's writing system using symbols
Logographic
The study of meaning and formalizing it into a logical form
What is Semantics?
ʔ
What is a glottal stop?
The study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages.
What is Phonology?
The process by which humans acquire the ability to comprehend and produce language, either as their first or second (third, etc.) language
What is Language Acquisition?
The name of the famous Linguist that I love/hate
Noam Chomsky
An example of Displacement
(References something not in proximity)
ʒ
What is a voiced postalveolar fricative?
The dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
a special kind of translation that works morpheme-by-morpheme
Interlinear Glossing
The syntax word order of Japanese
SOV
List all 7 of Hockett's features (not looking at notes)
Arbitrariness, Interchangeability, Cultural Transmission, Prevarication, Productivity, Displacement, Semanticity
f,θ,s,ʃ,h
What are voiceless fricatives?
The mood or feeling of a word
Connotation
A theory in linguistics that proposes that humans are born with an innate ability to acquire, develop, and understand language
What is the Universal Grammar theory?