Phonetics
This word is transcribed as /kat/
What is cat?
This type of morpheme cannot stand by alone.
What is a bound morpheme?
Syntax is defined as.
What is the study of the arrangement of words in structures, phrases, and clauses?
The variation of a phoneme is called
What is an allophone ?
This influential linguist we have studied is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Linguistics."
Who is Noam Chomsky?
The name for sounds made using the tongue placed between the teeth.
What is interdental?
A word is defined as
What is arbitrary, pairs sound and meaning, and mental lexicon?
Chip was still deflated that he’d allowed himself to get duped, but he put his arm around me as we started walking back to the truck. This is an example of what kind of sentence?
What is a compound-complex sentence?
This is the name for two vowels that form one syllable.
What is a dipthong?
This is the language change affecting vowels for speakers in the Great Lakes region.
What is the Northern Cities Shift (NCS)?
This anatomic structure rises or lowers to control nasal resonance.
This type of morpheme changes the part of speech of a word.
What is derivational morpheme?
The significance of the sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is what?
What is syntactically correct yet semantically meaningless?
Of the following words, which contains a dipthong?
Music Male Meat
What is male?
This is a hypothesis claiming that we readily develop language during the first years of our life, and that it becomes harder after a certain age.
What is the Critical Period or Sensitive Period?
Which of the following words includes this sound /e/:
gate feel bell grass fade
What is grass and fade?
The word "fan-freaking-tastic" contains an example of what kind of affix?
What is an infix?
In the sentence "the fat man ate food" the noun phrase is what?
What is "the fat man?"
Of these words, which is stressed on the third syllable?
Alphabet Interrupt Decision
What is interrupt?
The work of Daniel Everett with this language is controversial for his claim that it does not have recursion, which, if true, would falsify a basic assumption of Chomskyan linguistics.
What is Pirahã?
The international phonetic alphabet was created in this year.
What is 1888?
The changes between the words "ran" and "run" is an example of this word formation affix.
What is ablaut?
This professor at CSU researches syntax.
Who is Dr. G?
Which of these following words contains a minimal pair?
Side-sink These-those There-there
What is these-those?
This country has the most languages.
What is Papua New Guinea, with over 839 or 851 disputed languages?