What's that Phoneme?
This phoneme is a voiced bilabial stop
What is /b/
The study of the minimal units of language e.g. individual speech sounds
What is Phonetics?
I like her as a friend. I don't like-like her is an example of this morphological process.
What is reduplication?
A bound morpheme that attaches to a stem.
What is an affix?
An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children and later to test their knowledge of verb conjugates.
What is a Wug?
This phoneme is a voiceless postalveolar fricative
What is /ʃ/
The study of how words are constructed using the smallest units of meaning
What is Morphology?
'In-' , a negation, is added to 'complete' to create the new word 'incomplete' in this morphological process.
What is affixation?
The free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to the word, and to which affixes can attach.
What is the root?
The onset, nucleus, and coda are parts of this?
What is a syllable?
This phoneme is mid, central, lax, and unrounded.
What is /ə/?
A component of mental grammar that deals with constructing phrasal expressions out of smaller expressions. Also a name for the subfield of linguistics that studies how expressions can combine to form larger expressions.
What is Syntax?
The words 'space' and 'suit' are combined into a new word 'spacesuit' in this morphological process.
What is compounding?
There are only 7 of these in English.
What are inflectional affixes?
A set of rules designed to give instructions regarding the socially embedded notion of the “correct” or “proper” way to speak or write.
What is Prescriptive Grammar?
This phoneme is a voiced alveolar approximant.
What is /ɹ/
The study of linguistic meaning.
What is Semantics?
There is one MAN at the door and two MEN sitting down is an example of this process.
What is alternation?
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are members of this class.
What are open class morphemes or words?
The primary difference between [ə] and [ʌ] in English transcription is this.
What is stress?
This phoneme is high front tense and unrounded.
What is /i/?
The study of how context affects language use: both whether or not a particular utterance is felicitous in a given context and how the context affects that utterance’s meaning or interpretation
What is Pragmatics?
The dog IS in the house today. The dog WAS oustide yesterday is an example of this process.
What is suppletion?
Daily Double!
A morphological process whereby the form of a word is modified to indicate some grammatically relevant information, such as person, number, tense, gender, etc.
What is inflection?
A member of the natural class of sounds that are characterized by a high-pitched hissing quality
What is a sibilant?