Phonetics/Phonology
What word class are 'I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them'?
Personal pronouns
What is the difference between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme?
Free morphemes can stand alone, whereas bound morphemes must be attached to a free morpheme.
Subject and verb (predicate)
What are paralinguistic features?
Facial expressions, body language, gestures, gaze.
The connection between a sign and its meaning is...?
Arbitrary
What are the three elements linguists use to determine consonant production?
Place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicing.
What are the three main broad categories of noun?
Common, proper, collective
What are the four sentence types?
Interrogative, exclamative, declarative, imperative
What is an interlocutor?
A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation
What is the name given to a group of lexemes with interrelated meanings in a text?
Semantic field
What are the four processes of connected speech?
Elision, vowel reduction, assimilation, insertion
What are the three word classes that adverbs modify?
Verbs, adjectives, adverbs
What are the five sentence structures?
Fragment, simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
What is code-switching?
When speakers or writers switch between different language dialects in a conversation or single text
What is over-generalisation and under-generalisation?
OG = Applying one word to more than it signifies
UG = Applying a narrower definition to words than they have
What are the five prosodic features?
Stress, pitch, intonation, tempo, volume.
What are the three articles, and what is their category?
A, an (indefinite), the (definite)
What is a 'complement', and does it do?
A phrase or clause that provides extra information about a subject or object.
BONUS QUESTION! What is the name of the actor who played Dr. Octopus in the Sam Raimi directed and critically acclaimed 'Spider-Man 2' in 2004?
Alfred Molina
BONUS QUESTION! What was the name of Australia first Prime Minister?
Edmund Barton
What does the following sentence in IPA say?
mistr kəli: iz ðə best ti:tʃə evʌ
List all nine word classes
Noun, adjective, adverb, verb, determiner, pronoun, preposition, interjections, conjunctions
Identify the noun and verb phrases in the following sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Noun phrase: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
Verb phrase: "buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
BONUS QUESTION! We use the decimal numeral system (base 10), whereas ancient Sumerians used the sexagesimal system; what base was it?
60
What are the seven semantic change processes?
Denotation, connotation, broadening, narrowing, elevation, deterioration, shift