LOVEABLE LINGUISTS
FREAKY PHONEMES
WORLD LANGUAGES
MSU FACULTY LINGUISTS
QUALMS
100
This linguist is responsible for coining the term "poverty of the stimulus" in his groundbreaking 1980 publication 'Rules and Representations'
Who is Noam Chomsky?
100
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What is the voiced alveopalatal affricate? (English JuDGe)
100
According to Internet World Stats, this language is the most widely used language on the Internet by number of users
What is English? (Second: Chinese. Third: Spanish. Fourth: Japanese. Fifth: Portuguese.)
100
The husband-wife team of MSU syntacticians
Who are Cristina Schmitt and Alan Munn?
100
The duties of a traditional "vice president" are performed in qUALMS by this position
Who is the Chief of Staff?
200
This linguist is known for his popular science books (including 'The Language Instinct') as well as his magical hairdo
Who is Steven Pinker?
200
ʙ
What is the bilabial trill? (Nias 'simbi' [siʙi] 'lower jaw')
200
This language is one of the best known languages to include voiceless vowels in its phonological inventory
What is Japanese? (Less well known languages: I don't know. But there are probably others.)
200
The only American-born linguist in our department
Who is Marcin Morzycki?
200
The letters in qUALMS stand for this
The q Undergraduate Society for Linguistics at Michigan State
300
This notable linguist was the keynote speaker for GLEEFUL 2011
Who is Tom Roeper?
300
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What is the voiceless palatal fricative? (English Hue)
300
This controversial language is spoken by the indigenous peoples of Amazonas, Brazil
What is Pirahã?
300
Bizarro-Karthik (the MSU phonologist before Karthik)
Who is Han-sook Choi?
300
These four undergrads were the founding members of qUALMS (off-limits if you're one of them)
Who are Chris Heffner, Bailey Reidinger, Christine Collins and David Bogojevich?
400
This semanticist duo literally "wrote the book" on semantics ('Semantics in Generative Grammar')
Who are Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer?
400
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What is the voiceless epiglottal fricative? (Haida 'xants' [ʜʌnts] 'shadow')
400
This language has been spoken in central Mexico since at least the 7th century A.D., and has nearly 1.5 million speakers today
What is Nahuatl?
400
The gay faculty linguist
Who is no one in our linguistics department?
400
This magician syntactician is qUALMS' incredible advisor
Who is Cristina Schmitt?
500
This Canadian linguist runs the Monthly Mystery Spectrogram weblog (http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~robh/howto.html)
Who is Rob Hagiwara?
500
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What is the voiced retroflex implosive? (Not yet confirmed to exist in any language)
500
This Bantu language is spoken by over 10 million speakers in central Africa and descended from Bobangi
What is Lingala?
500
The only Professor Emeritus in the linguistics department
Who is Grover Hudson?
500
This evil man has banished qUALMS forever (hopefully not, though) from using A615 Wells
Who is Tom Lovik?
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