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Give examples for non-linguistic typology
Political,historical,botanic...
Typology of languages, system, sub-system and units. Which typology?
Linguistic typology
What is the aim of comparative typology?
Explain common properties and structural diversity of the languages
Who is the author of the boos "Typology and universals?
William Croft
it analyses historic facts and produces comparaitve inventory based on history of each nation to reveal differences and similarities. Which typology?
Historical
...a concept in statistics, research design and social sciences. Which typology?
Statistical
Danish,Swedish and Norwegian. What is the similiraties of these languages?
They are the members of one family. North Germanic language family
Give examples for The Romance languages family.
Spanish,Italian, French,Portuguese,Romanian
In all languages there is polysemy,synonymy,antonymy. True or False?
... is a language which is perceived or taken as a standard against which other languages are compared or evaluated, such as Latin in medieval and early modern Europe.
Ethalon language
This type of language uses word order and auxiliary words instead of inflection to convey meaning. What kindof language?
What is morphological typology?
This linguistic term describes how languages are classified based on how they form words by combining morphemes.
What are the minimal units of spoken languages?
consonants,vowels,melodies,rythm
... the study and classification of speech sounds
Phonetics
What are the subcategories of phonetics?
articulatory,acoustic,auditory
...investigates vowel and consonant phonemes, their phonetic changes and others in the comparative aspect of several genetically related and non-related languages.
Comparative phonetics
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Phoneticians divide a speech stream into two categories. What are they?
Segmants and suprasegmantals
What are the proccess of speech production?
Initiation,phonation and articulation
Three areas of articulatory phonetics (in terms of consonant description)
Voice,place and manner
Suprasegmentals are easy to transcribe using an alphabetic-like transcription system. True or False?
False
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/t/ /d/ /n/ /l/ /s/ What kind of sounds are they according to place of articulation?
Alveolar sounds
What is acoustic phonetics?
Acoustic phonetics is the study of the acoustic properties of sounds, which are determined by measuring pitch,loudness and quality (timbre).
Phonology deals with human speech sounds. True or False
False. It is phonetics