phonetics
this is the term for the smallest unit of sound that can change meaning in a language.
what is a phoneme?
this is a famous picture test for children that used invented nouns to check what they know about their own language rules.
what is the Wug Test?
this is the most common word order.
what is SOV?
the Indo-European family splits into several branches. Spanish, French, and Italian belong to this one.
what is Romance?
this constructed international language was created in the 19th century to promote peace.
what is Esperanto?
in IPA, this symbol [ʒ] corresponds to this sound.
what is [ʒ]? (as the s in "vision")
this is a morpheme that must attach to another word and cannot stand alone is called this.
what is a bound morpheme?
this person made up the phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously"?
who is Noam Chomsky?
Hebrew and Arabic are part of this branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.
what is semitic?
this language is considered an official language only in the Vatican.
what is Latin?
this is a strong burst of air that sometimes accompanies the release of some sounds.
what is aspiration?
this is the term for repeating a morpheme or word to change its meaning.
what is reduplication?
this is a grammatical system used in some languages to categorize nouns.
what are noun classes?
this is the continent with the most languages.
what is Asia?
this is the name for writing systems that write only the consonants and not the vowels.
what is an Abjad?
this sound can be described as the palatal approximate.
what is /j/? (as y in yellow)
this is the term for a language that tends to use a single word for each morpheme, like Mandarin.
what is an isolating language?
this kind of verb doesn't take a direct object, as in "He sleeps."
what is an intransitive verb?
Japanese and Korean are sometimes grouped under this controversial language family hypothesis.
what is Altaic?
this language is the 10th most spoken language in the world (by total number of speakers)
what is Urdu?
this branch of phonology focuses on the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech.
what is prosody?
this is the process of creating a new word via morphology, typically by removing or substituting affixes from an original word, for example "chalant" from "nonchalant"
what is back-formation?
in generative grammar, this level of structure shows underlying abstract relationships between components rather than the surface structure.
what is the deep structure?
this is the language family of Hawaiian.
what are the Polynesian languages (of the Austronesian language family)
this country was the host for IOL 2007.
what is Russia?