Phonetics
How many phonemes does the word 'dog' have?
3
What is the area of study that focuses on the rules and patterns of speech sounds?
Phonology
What is morphology the study of?
The study of words or word parts
The arrangement of words and phrases in a language
What do you call the study of language in context?
Pragmatics
If a speaker does not use digraphs like /sh/ and /ch/ in their linguistic repertoire, what is a word that they might confuse with 'she's'?
Cheese
How many syllables are in the word chocolate?
3
What type of morpheme is -ed when it is added to a verb to mark the past tense?
An inflectional suffix (because it does not change the part of speech)
bound morpheme
If a speaker of Black language says 'Janet BIN married to Silvia,' what is Jane and Silvia's current marital status?
They are still married.
They got married a long time ago and are still married.
What do you call the study of word meaning at the word level and above?
Semantics
How many phonemes does the word 'flush' have?
4
What is the Consonant Vowel pattern of 'blush'?
(e.g., CVC, CCCVC, etc.)
CCVC
C(b) + C(l) + V(u)+C(sh)
What is the root/base in the word 're/appear/ance/s'?
Appear
What part of speech would have to go in this syntactical spot: The apple pickers arrived to work _________ dawn?
A preposition
A Spanish-English emergent bilingual who says 'pasopadre' is making an approximation from English to Spanish. What is she trying to say?
Stepfather
What two phonemes are challenging for a speaker who cannot hear the difference between lighter and writer?
/l/ and /r/
If a speaker is not used to the allophonic flap of Mainstream US English, what word would they likely confuse with 'riding'?
A flap (also: alveolar tap or single tap trill) is a term that describes a speech sound produced when the tongue quickly and briefly makes contact with the ridge behind the upper front teeth.
Writing
re
They used the noun adjective order of Spanish.
A child from the US arrives to school in Mexico and is regularly critiqued about her writing. Her teachers complain that it is too messy, contains inaccurate spelling, and does not provide the exactly correct answers from the text. What part of language can account for these differences in writing approaches? (E.g., phonology, syntax, etc.)
Pragmatics
What does this IPA sentence say?
fəˈntɪks ˈɹɑks
Phonetics rocks
What is the characteristic of diphthongs?
There are two vowel sounds.
Diphthongs are a combination of two vowel sounds that glide together.
Why may a student from China say things like, "I talk to him yesterday" and "She turn it in last week."?
Mandarin does not inflect verbs for the past tense like English does
An Arabic-English speaking emergent bilingual says things like 'see we them' instead of 'we see them'. What approximation of Arabic syntax are they applying to English?
Arabic uses Verb (see)-Subject (we)-Object (them) instead of Subject (we) - Verb (see) - Object (them)
Words like lamp and lampara, photo and foto, plant and planta are similar between English and Spanish. What are these types of words called?
Cognates