Key concepts
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Word-formation
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He is considered the father of structuralism.
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
100
It is an upper-class accent of British English, spoken by approx. 5% of the British population.
What is Received Pronunciation (RP)?
100
It is the smallest meaning-distinguishing unit in a language and abstract.
What is a phoneme?
100
It is the smallest meaning-bearing unit in a language and abstract.
What is a morpheme?
100
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What is yummy chocolate?
200
It is the counterpart of the "signifié" in this famous bilateral model of the linguistic sign.
What is the "signifiant"?
200
It is the branch of phonetics that is concerned with the production of speech sounds.
What is articulatory phonetics?
200
A group of concrete sounds that realize the same abstract unit and occur (mostly) in complementary distribution. They are usually predictable form the phonetic environment.
What are allophones?
200
It is one possible definition of a "word". There are 4 in the sentence "I like passion fruit."
What is a word form ? (OR What is an orthographic word?)
200
The process by which the 2 lexemes "work" + "alcoholic" turn into the new lexeme "workaholic".
What is blending?
300
The singular subject and the 3rd ps. verb in "The woman likes her car" are in one, and the [g] and the [z] in the word "begs" [begz] are in one.
What is a syntagmatic relation/What are syntagmatic relations?
300
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What is your lucky day?
300
It is performed in order to establish the phoneme inventory of a language.
What is a minimal pair test?
300
{past} and {comparative} are examples of it, but {HAPPY} and [UN-} are not.
What is an inflectional morpheme? (OR What is a bound grammatical morpheme?)
300
It is one of the most common word-formation processes and consists in the attachment of bound lexical morphemes to a base.
What is derivation?
400
He and the supporters of his approach consider the "performance" of a speaker as deficient and are rather interested in the "competence" of a speaker.
Who is (Noam) Chomsky?
400
A sound produced in the gap between the vocal folds, which, in some accents, replaces the [t] in 'butter'.
What is a glottal stop?
400
Strong and weak forms, intrusive 'r', linking 'r' and elision are examples of this phenomenon, which is relevant for longer stretches of spoken language (vs. isolated words)
What is "connected speech"?
400
It is the item which remains after the removal of all affixes.
What is a root?
400
"Travel agency", "blue-eyed" and "classmate" are examples of it, but "paperback" and "skinhead" are not.
What is an endocentric compound?
500
It is the term that captures the fact that humans can use language to talk about things in the past and things which are not physically present.
What is displacement?
500
In RP, [u:] and [ɑ:] are examples of it, but [ʊ], [i:] and [e] aren't.
What is a long back vowel?
500
The process by which a sound becomes more similar to the following sound with respect to one or more articulatory features. NOT the process by which a sound becomes more similar to the the preceding sound. E.g., in the fictional sound sequence [üöä], [ö] becomes more similar to [ä].
What is regressive assimilation?
500
The regular plural allomorphs and the regular past tense allomorphs are subject to it, e.g. pet > pets [s] pens > pens [z] but goose > geese is not.
What is phonological conditioning?
500
It relates to phenomena regarding the limits of productivity of certain word-formation processes. Can be of a phonological, morphological or semantic nature.
What is blocking?
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