So you think you know the field...
Lips and vocal folds and everything in between
Undoubtedly sinful and taxing
Getting here to level A
Say WHAAAAT???
100
You should never ask a linguist...
How many languages do you speak? Are you basically like an English major?
100
The required phonetics course is this class number.
What is 110?
100
Words like ‘the’, ‘an’, and possessive [s].
What are determiners?
100
You see this staff member when you want to declare Linguistics.
Who is JANE PARIS?
200
The main proponent of ‘Universal Grammar’.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
200
English has nasals in this number of places.
What is 3?
200
“Progressive” and “perfect” are examples of this.
What is aspect?
200
Number of units of compulsory core classes for the major.
What is 20?
200
A stage of language acquisition, when babies repeat nonsensical consonant-vowel syllables.
What is babbling?
300
This is the most famous historical sound change between Middle English and Early Modern English.
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
300
Phenomenon illustrated here: cats, dogs, fishes [kæts, dɔgz, fɪʃəz] ?
What is allomorphy?
300
A language that allows you to omit the subject in a sentence: e.g. no hablo español
What is pro-drop?
300
This professor got their doctorate at Harvard.
Who is Andrew Garrett or Peter Jenks.
300
Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen work on this Northern California language isolate.
What is Karuk.
400
An Amazonian language with controversial lack of recursion
What is Pirahã
400
The most common manner of articulation among the world’s languages.
What are stops?
400
These languages mark subjects and objects differently from each other.
What is nominative-accusative?
400
The doors to the office side of Dwinelle (i.e. this side) close at this time.
What is 5:30?
400
He is known as the “father of American linguistics”.
Who is Leonard Bloomfield?
500
This phonation phenomenon produced by ‘young urban females’ (as reported in the news) that is apparently terrible and should be banned immediately.
What is creaky voice/vocal fry.
500
This English fricative has noise at 8000 Hz.
What is [s]?
500
This allows feature inheritance and movement and captures agreement within syntactic feature structures.
What is tagging?
500
This professor emeritus preceded Keith Johnson as director of the Phonology Lab.
Who is John Ohala?
500
Date and location of this year’s departmental graduation.
What is May 18, Zellerbach Playhouse.
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