What is Language?
Morphology
The Meaning of Language
Phonetics
Phonology
100
Knowledge of words and grammar
What is linguistic competence
100
Orthography is another word for
What is spelling
100
Sentences that are always false
What is contradictions
100
Phonetic alphabet designed to symbolize the sounds of all languages
What is International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA
100
When a feature distinguishes one phoneme from another
What is distinctive feature
200
How deaf children communicate
What is babbling with their hands
200
Morphemes that are able to stand alone
What is free morphemes
200
If you know that a sentence is true, you can infer that another sentence must also be true
What is entailment
200
Science of speech sounds
What is phonetics
200
Two (or more) words that are identical except for one phoneme that occurs in the same position in each word.
What is a minimal pair
300
Words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
What is onomatopoeia
300
Marks properties such as tense, number, person and so forth
What is inflectional morphemes
300
Phrases with meanings that cannot be predicted based on the meanings of the individual words
What is idioms or idiomatic expressions
300
When the rise and fall of pitch over an entire phrase may affect meaning
What is intonation
300
V → [+nasal] / _ [+nasal] $
What is the nasalization rule. Vowels are nasalized before a nasal consonant within the same syllable.
400
Rules of word formation
What is morphology
400
The words as, of, an, and it are examples of
What is function words
400
Words that are their own antonym
What is auto antonyms or contranyms
400
The glottis, larynx, pharynx, oral cavity and nasal cavity
What is vocal tract
400
The [-s], [z], and [-əz] forms of the plural morpheme
What is allomorph
500
Enables you to combine sounds to form words, words to form phrases, and phrases to form sentences
What is knowledge of a language
500
Estimated number of words in the unabridged dictionary
What is 500,000
500
Relations such as agent and theme are
What is thematic roles
500
The pronunciation of words in square brackets
What is phonetic transcription
500
Adding a segment to a word
What is epenthesis
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