So you think you know the field...
Lips and vocal folds and everything in between
Undoubtedly sinful and taxing
Getting to level A
Say WHAAAT?!?!?!
100
A question you must never ask a linguistics major.
What is "How many languages do you speak?" or "Isn't linguistics just English?"
100
The class number of the phonetics course required for the linguistics major.
What is 110?
100
These are words like ‘the’, ‘an’, and possessive <’s>.
What is a determiner?
100
You see this staff member when you want to declare Linguistics.
Who is Jane Paris?
100
5pm on Thursday.
What time does SLUgS meet?
200
The main proponent of Universal Grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
200
English has nasals in this number of places.
What is 3?
200
"The progressive" and "the perfect" are examples of this verbal grammatical category.
What is aspect?
200
The number of units of compulsory core classes for the major.
What is 20?
200
In this stage of language acquisition, babies repeat nonsensical consonant-vowel syllables.
What is babbling?
300
The most famous sound change to occur between Middle and Early Modern English.
What is the Great Vowel Shift?
300
This phenomenon is illustrated here: cats, dogs, fishes [kæts, dɔgz, fɪʃəz].
What is allomorphy?
300
This type of language allows subjects to be omitted from sentences: e.g., “no hablo español”
What is a pro-drop language?
300
This professor got their doctorate at Harvard.
Who is Garrett or Jenks?
300
Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen work on this Northern California language isolate.
What is Karuk?
400
This Amazonian language has been controversially claimed to lack 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 are nominative-accusative languages?
400
The doors to the office side of Dwinelle (i.e., this side) close at this time.
What is 5:30?
400
The father of American Linguistics.
Who is Leonard Bloomfield?
500
This is a much-maligned phonation phenomenon attributed to ‘young urban females’.
What is vocal fry or creaky voice?
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
These are the date and location of this year’s departmental graduation.
What is May 18, Zellerbach Playhouse?
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