Introduction
Language and the Brain
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
100
A grammar that instructs speakers on the correct form of the language.
What is prescriptive grammar?
100
The hemisphere of the brain where language is usually processed.
What is the left hemisphere?
100
The adjective describing the relationship between form and meaning of words.
What is arbitrary?
100
The type of syntactic phrase represented by the words "the handsome boy".
What is an NP?
100
The study of language meaning.
What is semantics?
200
The grammar approach preferred by linguists.
What is descriptive grammar?
200
The type of aphasia resulting in slow, halting speech, with difficulty producing grammatical particles like articles, prepositions, etc.
What is Broca's aphasia?
200
The smallest part of a word that carries meaning.
What is a morpheme?
200
A group of words that can move together, stand alone, or be substituted by a pro-form.
What is a constituent?
200
A sentence that is always true.
What is a tautology?
300
What we know about our language.
What is linguistic competence?
300
A language error often made by Wernicke's aphasics.
What is word replacement/nonsense word production/language comprehension?
300
A morpheme that cannot stand on its own, but must attach to another morpheme.
What is a bound morpheme?
300
The type of phrase structure rule that creates an iterative "loop" in the tree structure.
What is a recursive rule?
300
Two sentences represent this when if one of them is true, the other must also be true.
What is entailment?
400
The hypothesis that states that language influences the way we perceive the world.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
400
The aspect of the brain demonstrated by children with hemispherectomies who still acquire language
What is brain plasticity?
400
An affix that carries only grammatical meaning.
What is an inflectional affix?
400
The X-bar level at which adjectives adjoin to the NP structure.
What is N' ("N-bar")?
400
A set of properties that are part of word meaning.
What are semantic features?
500
The set of rules representing universal properties of language.
What is Universal Grammar?
500
The language period for which Genie's case provides evidence.
What is the critical period?
500
The morphological process represented by the creation of words like hotdog, bittersweet, blackboard, etc.
What is compounding?
500
The XP level at which adverbs adjoin to the VP structure.
What is V' (adjunct structure)?
500
The thematic role of the NP "Lisa" in the sentence: "John caught the ball from Lisa with the mitt".
What is the source?
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