The Basics
Linguistics is the study of...
What is language and its structure?
The languages that our guest speakers spoke were...
What are Turkish and German?
A person who speaks two or more languages...
What is a bilingual (or multilingual)?
The study of language and identity...
Sociolinguistics
What is forensic linguistics?
The domains of language are...
These languages put adjectives in front of nouns, instead of behind them (e.g., "the shirt purple")...
What are (most) Romance languages?
The individual parts of a word are called...
What is a morpheme?
The study of writing...
Orthography
The study of how language develops in both infants and adults...
What is developmental linguistics?
English syntax order is...
What is SVO?
How English marks plural nouns...
What is "-s"?
The individual sounds in a word are called...
What is a phoneme?
The study of names...
What is onomastics?
The study of language and the physical brain...
What is neurolinguistics?
"The man in the telescope" is an example of pragmatic ________...
What is ambiguity?
The sounds / ȿ / and / ç / make...
What are /sh/ and /ch/?
The process by which a speaker develops a language...
What is language acquisition?
The study of language and the mind...
What is psycholinguistics?
The study of language teaching and curriculum development...
What is applied linguistics?
Our brain's meaning association networks are called...
What are semantic networks?
The Italian idiom "In bocca al lupo" means (in English)...
What is "good luck"?
The regularization of irregular patterns in a language is called...
What is systematicity?
What is computational linguistics?
The study of language change over long spans of evolutionary time...
What is evolutionary linguistics?