There is a slight pause in a word and you need the context to understand its meaning as in "nitrate and night rate"
What is juncture?
100
These words both have three sound segments, differ only in the initial consonant, and mean different things
cat, pat, rat, bat, fat
What is called a minimal set
100
Words or phrases that combine contradictory words such as Sweet sorrow
What is called Oxymorons
100
Determine the type of sentence. (simple, complex, etc.)
We must find a babysitter who is more responsible.
What is a complex
100
We can imagine that in each person's brain there is a dictionary containing the definitions of all the words that a person knows
What is called a lexicon
200
Tone, pitch, etc.
What is an example of a suprasegmental?
200
Any trait that distinguishes one phoneme from another. For example,in English, /p/ can be phonemically distinguished from /b/ by the single aspect called voicing.
What is called distinctive feature analysis.
200
Consider these two expressions:
To hit the hay
To face the music
To pay through the nose
What is called idioms
200
In the noun phrase below, which type of pronoun is being expressed?
those watches
What is a demonstrative pronoun
200
What are the semantic properties of the word "man"?
What is adult, male, human, etc.
300
The morpheme "telephone" broken down into parts (Bound or free)
What is tele + phone B + F
300
Vowels are made up of either a single sound or two sounds in sequence called
What is diphthongs
300
What is the study of the effect of context on meaning referred to
What is pragmatics
300
What is wrong with the sentence below? Is it word order, word relationship, incompleteness or ambiguity?
Not that is dog.
What is word order
300
The domain of "trees" includes such words as oak, maple, ash, birch. What kind of domain are we referring to
What is called a semantic domain
400
Morphemes that change the lexical category or the meaning of a form
What is derivational morphemes
400
This change involves an alternative pronunciation of a syllable from an idealized pronunciation.
What is called a change in syllabicity
400
By pronouncing this sentence the speaker is performing an action such as, " I hereby sentence you to 12 years in jail."
What is called speech acts
400
Why is the following sentence ambiguous?
There is a big earring sale today.
Could mean the earrings are big or the sale is big with lots of earrings.
400
Hammer, screwdriver, drill and pliers are all __________ for the word tools.
What are called hyponyms
500
The meaning "more than one," which is usually expressed as the suffix -s in English, can actually be pronounced three different ways:
What is /s/ as in mats, /z/ as in zoos or /ez/ as in churches
500
These types of sounds are more basic and natural in the language and learned by children earlier than marked sounds
What is unmarked sounds
500
ANTHROPOLOGY TEACHER: What is "culture"?
STUDENT: It is the learned behavior, customs, and values of a society that the people in that society use to deal with each other and with their environment. It's passed on from one generation to the next by parents, family members, and teachers, etc., etc.
What maxim is being violated here?
What is maxim of manner
500
# a boy is on a ferris wheel# changed to "There is a boy on the ferris wheel.
Was this a transformation rule of movement, deletion, insertion, or substitution.
What is a transformation of movement and insertion.
500
You are my sunshine.
My love is a pink rose.
Both sentences are examples of what can be used in poetry