What do you know…
It’s the L in L1 and L2!
What is language?
It’s where one can find information about the common use(s) of a given word!
What’s a dictionary?
It’s more than a word, but it’s not (necessarily) a full sentence.
What’s a phrase?
Things like a, b, c, and d, are not actually sounds, but these.
What are letters?
This describes the relation between “happy” and “glad”, as well as that between “funny” and “comical”.
What is synonymous?
He has been called the “father” of modern Linguistics!
Who‘s Noam Chomsky?
A word like “bed”, “cat” or “love” but not one like “entangle”, “crazy” or “allegedly”.
What is a noun?
It’s the study of how words combine to form sentences!
What’s syntax?
These are sounds that are not consonants.
What are vowels?
Nouns like “bank”, “joint” and “ball” and verbs like “lie” all share the property of being this.
What is ambiguous?
English belongs to the Germanic branch of this language family.
What is Indo-European?
A word like “pretty”, “plain” or “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
What is an adjective?
It has leaves and a trunk, but it can also be used to represent the relations between words in a sentence!
What’s a tree?
The mental representation of speech sounds is the object of this field of study.
What is phonology?
We call this a linguist who studies meaning.
What is a semanticist?
This two-word phrase describes the set of principles governing all human languages, according to linguists.
What is Universal Grammar?
The study of how words are built is often referred to as this.
What is Morphology?
The S in SVO, as in “English is an SVO language”.
What is a subject?
It’s a language that does not involve speech sounds!
What is a sign language?
The sentence “colourless green ideas sleep furiously” is known for being grammatical but this.
What is meaningless/nonsensical?
“A language is a this with an army and a navy” is a quote most often attributed to Max Weinreich.
What is a dialect?
Two or more words strung together to form another word, like “armchair” or “bodyguard”.
What is a compound?
This kind of sentence is a sentence inside another. Like: “I know this is a sentence”!
What is an embedded sentence?
It’s the field of study concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds. It rhymes with “semantics”, “mathematics” and “aesthetics”.
What is Phonetics?
An expression with an unpredictable meaning like “I could eat a horse” or “It’s raining cats and dogs” is usually referred to as a this.
What is an idiom?