Phonetics/Phonology
The place of articulation for /b, p, m/
What is bilabial?
The typical word order in English
What is S-V-O?
The number of morphemes in the word "classes"
What is 2?
The number of Grice's maxims
What is 4?
The relationship of an expression to the world
What is a reference?
A low, front, tense, unrounded vowel
/æ/
What are arguments?
A morphological process in which an affix as added to word, often changing the word into a different lexical category
The type of context that refers to preceding discourse
What is linguistic context? (Vs. _______ or _______)
The most comprehensive way to understand how we know the sense of words
What is usage based approach? (vs. _______ or ________)
The aspect of phonetics that includes things like intonation and stress
What is suprasegmental?
Optional components of an expression, can be freely ordered.
What are adjuncts?
"Love" in the word "lovable"
What is the root? (Or the stem!)
The term for when a speaker conveys a meaning indirectly, for a listener to infer.
What is implicature?
The type of antonymy where this is nothing in the world that is both X and Y (e.g., mortal/immortal)
What is complementary antonyms?
Phonemic distribution in which two sounds are found in different locations/environments within a word; switching between the sounds does not change the meanin
What is complementary distribution?
A verb with no arguments.
Grammatical affixes such as "-ed" for past tense form a limited set, known as this type of affix (which usually does not change the lexical category)
What is inflectional?
One reason to opt for an indirect speech act, e.g., "would you mind turning down the volume?"
What is politeness? (other answers)?
What is a hypernym? (or category superordinate)
Distribution of sounds in which two sounds can be found in the same environment within a word; switching between then changes the meaning
What is contrastive distribution?
VP --> _______ + NP + NP
What is a ditransitive verb?
Indonesian uses the form "rumah" for house and "rumahrumah" for houses, in a process known as this.
What is total reduplication?
A specialized speech act that changes something about the world.
Performative speech acts (specifically, specialized subcategory like "I now pronounce you husband and wife."
An adjective combines with a noun; can only be understood as a subset of the nouns. E.g., a quiet hair dryer.
What is relative intersection?