The type of syntactic constituent corresponding to the words "quickly went to the store".
What is Verb phrase (VP)
300
What would different languages be with respect to each other if sound to meaning connection was not arbitrary?
What is Mutually intelligible
300
Sound produced with an abrupt tight momentarily closure of the vocal folds.
What is Glottal stop
300
When two sounds appear in the same environment, but do not make a difference in meaning.
What is Free variation
300
A morpheme that cannot be a word on its own.
What is Bound morpheme
300
The constituency test exemplified by the following sentence:
It is [to the market] that these little piggy went.
What is Clefting
400
Language is built out of small units that can be identified and distinguished from each other (words are composed of sounds, sentences are composed of words, etc).
What is Discreteness
400
List five different places of articulation for consonants.
What is Labial, dental, alveolar, post-alveolar, palatal, velar, uvular, pharyngeal, laryngeal
400
The heart of the syllable, which is present in every kind of syllable.
What is Nucleus (typically a vowel)
400
The morphological process exemplified in the Tagalog word tatakbo 'will run' (compare to takbo 'run').
What is Reduplication
400
Non-subject arguments.
What is Complements
500
These two design features of language distinguish it from other communication systems.
What is Displacement and Productivity
500
These sounds are produced with lowered velum
What is Nasal sounds
500
The type of distribution of [x] (voiceless velar fricative) and [ç] (voiceless palatal fricative) in the following dataset of German:
[axt] ‘eight’
[ɪç] ‘I’
[buːx] ‘book’
[ɛçt] ‘real’
[lɔx] ‘hole’
[riːçən] ‘to smell’
What is Complementary distribution
500
The Zapotec morpheme for the root "sister", given the following data:
pizaanaya 'my sister'
pizaannoo 'our sister'
pizaanalo 'your (sg) sister'
pizaannatoo 'your (pl) sister'
What is pizaan
500
The verb "give" in "Sally gave Bob a gook" is an example of a ________ verb.