Syntax 1
When studying syntax and semantics, verbs can be compared to these mathematical concepts.
What is a function?
In the sentence "The blicket is red", blicket has the following syntactic category and for these reasons.
What is a noun?
A child learns this amount of new words per day.
What is 10 to 15?
The IPA stands for this.
The q in qUALMS stand for this.
What is quality?
Languages naturally have this kind of structure, which claims that some grammatical concepts in languages are more important than or higher in importance level than other concepts.
What is hierarchical?
In a syntax tree, the higher node of a group is called 1. this, while a lower node below it is called 2. this.
What is a parent and child?
Infants can discriminate phonetic contrast between all possible sounds until this age.
What is six months?
In the IPA, slashes (/◌/) are used for 1. this kind of transcription, while brackets ([◌]) are used for 2. this other kind.
What is broad and narrow?
Our yearly conference, MSULC, stands for this.
What is Michigan State University Linguistics Conference?
Adjuncts and complements both have sisters. However, the sisterhood relation each of them present is different. 1. This is the sister of a complement and 2. this is a sister to an adjunct.
What is a head and phrase?
This theory claims that every phrase in every sentence in every language is organized the same way.
What is the X-bar theory?
One of the most severe cases of language deprivation occurred with this girl, who only started to receive language input when she was 13 years old.
This spelling alphabet is not actually a phonetic alphabet, but is still called one. It is used to clearly communicate the letters of the Latin alphabet.
What is the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?
Name one of our E-Board members.
Who is Ankith, Sophia, Malosza, Shashwat, Devansh, Lyle, or Gui?
According to Fodor's Theory of Modularity, syntax occurs in 1. this level of cognition, because language operates by following 2. these.
What is computational and rules?
There are this amount of DPs (determiner phrases) in the sentence "John and Mary will play with Henry and Sue."
What is five? (John, Mary, John and Mary, Henry, Sue)
At this age, a child can distinguish the phonological differences between their native language and a non-native language.
What is four days old?
The characters ["s{mp@] represent the pronunciation of the name of this phonetic alphabet using the characters from its own system.
What is (X-)SAMPA?
Qualm, the noun, is defined as this.
What is an uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about one's own conduct; a misgiving.
Agent, cause, theme, and goal are examples of these kind of roles.
What is thematic roles?
The sentence "Bill told heri that Sarai would win the prize" is ungrammatical because it violates this fundamental theory of syntax.
What is the binding theory?
These are the two main areas of the brain that control speech.
What is Broca's area and Wernicke's area?
The IPA symbol /ʍ/ has this voicing, place of articulation, and manner of articulation.
What is voiceless labio-velar fricative/approximate?
Prior to COVID, qUALMS hosted another yearly conference called GLEEFUL, which stands for this.
What is the Great Lakes Expo of Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Learning?