LGCS Dept. Facts
Professor Facts 1
Professor Facts 2
Ling/Cogsci Trivia
100

The only course that is required for both the Linguistics major and the Cognitive Science major

What is Intro to Linguistics?

100

Name one class that Prof. Paster teaches

What are Intro Ling, Field Methods, Language and Social Justice, and Topics in Phonology?

100

The numbers with which Prof. Abrams's first name can be spelled out upside down on a calculator

What are 3517?

100

Any three of cognitive science's subfields

What are psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, computer science, anthropology, and philosophy?

200

Who is the LGCS academic coordinator?

Who is Wendy Mcnerney?

200

The two languages that Prof. Gotowski speaks

What are English and French?

200

The type of pet that Prof. Zirnstein has

What is a dog?

200

The parts of a syllable

What are the onset, nucleus, and coda (or onset and rhyme)?

300

The url of the LGCS department website

300

The small animal that Prof. Abrams had as a pet in graduate school, which would sit on her lap and eat peanuts

What is a rabbit?

300

The professor who is a diehard Cubs fan

Who is Toni?

300

The term for "the delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli", such as reading the name of a certain color when it is displayed in a different color

What is the Stroop effect?
400

The total number of current LGCS faculty members at the 5Cs

What is 11?

400

The meaning of Prof. Bar-Sever's middle name in Dutch

What is cheese?

400

The professor with a mile run time of 5 min 32 sec

Who is Prof. Ernesto?

400

The 8 main manners of articulation for language sounds (ex. stop)

What are stop, nasal, trill, tap/flap, fricative, lateral fricative, approximant, and lateral approximant?

500

The year that Pomona's linguistics program became the Linguistics and Cognitive Science department

When was 2001?
500

The year that Toni started eating the same thing for breakfast every single day

When was 2017?

500

The professor whose guacamole recipe won first place in a contest

Who is Prof. Paster?

500

The year in which the term "cognitive science" was coined (half points for correct decade)

When was 1973?

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