M & S Things
The smallest unit of meaning in a language
What is a morpheme?
IPA
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?
The study of language change over time
What is historical linguistics?
This alphabetic writing system is used to represent Bulgarian, Serbian, and Kazakh, as well as Russian.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
This constructed language is featured in the Star Trek universe
What is Klingon?
"beneath the mossy wooden bucket" is an English example of this kind of phrase
What is a prepositional phrase?
What is a fricative?
This language is spoken by more native speakers than any other in the world.
What is Mandarin?
This language uses three different writing systems: kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
What is Japanese?
Was it a cat I saw?, Yo! Banana boy!, and never odd or even are all examples of this.
What are palindromes?
The able in the English words fillable, teachable, understandable is an example of this type of of affix.
What is derivational?
The English words impossible, incomplete, and indelible illustrate this common phonological process.
What is place assimilation?
The study of language use and interpretation in context
What is pragmatics?
The invention of this writing system is credited to King Sejeong the Great.
What is Hangeul?
The Norman Invasion of 1066 marked the beginning of what period of the English language?
What is Middle English?
A type of affix consisting of two parts that are added simultaneously to a root morpheme.
What is a circumfix?
A group of sounds that share a common set of feature specifications and pattern together in phonological rules.
What is a natural class?
A simplified language that develops from two (or more) mutually unintelligible languages that come into sustained contact with one another
What is a pidgin?
This is the most widely used constructed language in the world
What is Esperanto?
Quality, Relation, Quantity, Manner
What are the Gricean Maxims?
Visiting penguins can be very dangerous is an example of this phenomenon.
What is (syntactic) ambiguity?
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What is a voiceless uvular (central oral) stop?
The man who whistles tunes pianos and The horse raced past the barn fell are examples of this.
What is a garden path sentence?
In this type of writing system, each symbol represents a single consonant.
What is an abjad?
These written symbols were used to encode messages in Old Norse
What are runes?