Phonetics
This is the name of the conventional writing system used in Phonetics & Phonology.
What is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?
A phoneme can be described in terms of these.
What are their 'distinctive features'?
A phone is a realized phoneme. This is a realized morpheme.
What is a 'morph'?
This is the theory that was developed by Noam Chomsky to illuminate the generative structures of all languages.
What is 'X-bar Theory'?
In 1957, he wrote Syntactic Structures, and thus became known as the "father of modern linguistics." hint: known by some PSU students as 'Daddy Chomp-Chomp'
Who is Noam Chomsky?
This is the place of articulation of these sounds: /s/ /d/ /l/
What is the 'alveolar ridge'?
English has this many phonemes.
How much is 44?
Swahili and Turkish are often cited examples of this class of languages.
What are 'agglutinating languages'?
This convention of representing syntactic structures is borrowed from probability theory in mathematics.
What is a 'tree diagram'?
These two brothers were not just known for documenting folklore, but also for conducting dialectological and lexicographical studies of Germany in the early nineteenth century.
Who were the brothers Grimm?
This is the part of the vocal tract responsible for admitting air into the nasal cavity.
What is the 'velum'?
Japanese is an example of a language which uses this as a tone-bearing unit (TBU) rather than a syllable.
What is a 'mora'?
Many indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest fall into this class of languages
What are 'polysynthetic languages'?
Word categories (e.g., noun, verb, etc.) are often identified not in terms of their meaning, but it terms of their ____.
What is 'syntactic distribution'?
This Swiss linguist is often considered a pioneer in synchronic linguistics, and the father of semiotics. hint: the Sign.
Who was Ferdinand de Saussure?
/ɓ/ /ɗ/ and /ɠ/ are all examples of these kinds of sounds.
What are 'implosives'?
This is the process by which vowels in the stem govern features of vowels in affixes.
What is 'vowel harmony'?
A morpheme which conveys more than one morpho-syntactic feature is know as this.
What is 'cumulative exponence'?
This syntactic argument is daughter of X' and sister to the Head.
What is a 'complement'?
Author of the textbook Language (1933), this linguist was a founder of American structuralism.
Who was Leonard Bloomfield?
This is the name of the phoneme /ʕ/
What is the 'voiced pharyngeal fricative'?
What are 'stops'?
A grammatical voice which 'downgrades' a direct object into an oblique object, or elides it altogether, is known as this.
What is an 'antipassive'?
This hypothesis states that all clauses must contain something in the subject position, and is often initialised as the 'EPP'.
What is the 'Extended Projection Principle'?
This chimpanzee was the primary subject of a Columbia University study in the late 1970s on animal language acquisition.
Who was Nim Chimpsky?