Phonetics
[ɹʌf], [ɹuf], or [ɹʊf] are all common pronunciations of this word.
What is roof?
This is the process of combining two separate words to make a new word.
What is compounding?
This is the common way to represent syntactical sentence structures.
What are syntax trees?
Quality, Quantity, Relation, and Manner.
What are Grice's Maxims?
This is the often-forgotten 5th romance language.
What is Romanian?
[ɓ] and [ɗ] represent the Vietnamese sounds created by sharply taking in air after the release.
What is an implosive?
This is the process of changing verbs to match person and number.
What is conjugation?
Gaelic, along with other Celtic languages, uses this word order.
What is VSO?
This explains why the sentence "Visiting relatives can be dangerous" has multiple meanings.
What is ambiguity?
These four languages are the official languages of Switzerland?
What are French, German, Italian, and Romansh
How long it takes for the speaker to begin voicing after articulating a stop consonant.
What is voice onset time/VOT?
Goose turns into geese, tooth turns into teeth, but moose stays moose because of this.
What are language roots?
What is the syntactic difference between the German sentence, "Willst du Schokolade?", and the English sentence "Do you like chocolate?"
What is do-insertion?
This form of speech can be perceived as funny or rude based on cultural and linguistic contexts.
What is sarcasm?
This is the language process that gives us easy-peasy and mahi mahi.
What is reduplication?
In this language, the orthographic <r> can be pronounced as [ʀ], [ʁ], [ɐ̯], [ɐ], or [r].
What is German?
These languages both influenced English, one giving us meat words such as "pork, beef, poultry", and the other giving us animal names like "pig, cow, chicken".
What are French and German?
Chinese and Italian follow this syntactical branching pattern.
What is a right branching language?
What is presupposition?
The man known as a critical capitalist, athiest, Jew, and enemy of Richard Nixon.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
This is the IPA symbol for the middle sound of Uygher - Ciara's pronunciation.
What is gamma (ɣ)?
The absorption of this region into England is the reason for the English language having separate words for sky and heaven.
What is Danelaw?
The theory of syntax that draws trees from the bottom up.
What is minimalism?
The American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher known as the father of pragmatism.
Who was Charles Sanders Peirce?
The inventor of the Na'vi language for the movie Avatar.
Who is Paul Frommer?