The study of how sound patterns in a particular language.
The music of language.
What is phonology?
100
You must do this to transform /f/ to /v/, /k/ to /g/, /t/ to /d/
and so forth.
What is voice?
100
Sound emitted by clueless speakers of English.
What is uh or schwa?
100
Nickname for someone from New Zealand.
What is a Kiwi?
100
Famous family that moved to Beverly Hills, California after the family patriarch, Jed, accidentally discovered oil while hunting on his land.
What is The Beverly Hillbillies?
200
The study of speech sounds.
What is phonetics?
200
How does one describe the timing by which English syllables are delivered in speech?
What is stress timed?
200
CCCCCC versus VVVVVV
What is a consonant cluster?
200
Americans say "see you later, take it easy, etc." when parting company. The Irish say....
What is "cheers?"
200
The second largest motorcycle rally in the nation after
Sturgis, South Dakota.
What is Bikes, Blues and Barbeque in Fayetteville, Arkansas?
300
One school of thought is descriptive linguistics which means observing and reporting what occurs in a language. The other school of thought demands remedies for shortcomings in language samples and is referred to as ___________.
What is prescriptive?
300
The pitch rises or falls at the end of the phrase depending on the intent of the speaker to make a statement or ask a yes/no question. This is called....
What is intonation?
300
Voiced sounds absent of stops, occlusions, or impediments of any kind.
What are vowels?
300
Everybody else takes a decision but Americans ____
a decision.
What is make?
300
How do you get a Arkansas State fan to laugh all weekend long?
What is " Tell him a joke Monday morning?"
400
Any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited.
What is a morpheme?
400
The fricative /sh/ sound combined with /t/ (preceding it) becomes /ch/. This sound is more complex and not a mere fricative but is called a ........
What is an affricate?
400
Sound that indignant teenagers and primates such as
baboons and chimps make when territory is challenged.
What are glottal stops?
400
If a Brit asks someone for a rubber (hint: he's not asking for a condom), what is he wanting?
What is an eraser?
400
Why are there so many unsolved murders in Oklahoma?
What is "There are no dental records and everyone has the same DNA?"
500
Any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented.
What is a phoneme?
500
The "r" in American English is not flapped but rather a
sound that emerges from around the tongue. How is "r"
labeled linguistically in English?
What is a lateral or a liquid?
500
Sound that English speakers make when they want someone else to be quiet.
What is "shhhhhhhh!"
500
The Brits call them Lorries but Americans call them ....
What are trucks?
500
What does the average Louisiana State University student get on his SAT?