history
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
This Swiss linguist is often called the father of modern linguistics.
What is morphological analysis?
The method of breaking words into their smallest meaningful units
What is phonetics?
The study of the physical properties of speech sounds.
What is semantics?
The study of meaning in language.
What is sociolinguistics?
The study of language variation and social factors.
What is comparative philology?
The 19th-century approach that compared languages to reconstruct earlier forms.
What is phonemic analysis?
This technique uses minimal pairs to identify phonemes.
What is a phoneme?
The smallest contrastive unit of sound in a language.
What is pragmatics?
This field examines how context influences meaning.
What is a dialect?
A language variety associated with a particular region.
What is Sanskrit?
This ancient language was extensively analyzed by the grammarian Pāṇini.
What is elicitation?
A field method involving direct data collection from native speakers.
What is voiced?
Sounds produced with vocal cord vibration are described as this.
What are synonyms?
Words with similar meanings, like big and large.
What is code-switching?
Switching between languages or varieties in conversation.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
In the 1950s, this linguist revolutionized syntax with generative grammar.
What is corpus linguistics?
This approach studies language as it is actually used in real contexts.
What is bilabial?
The place of articulation for sounds like /p/ and /b/.
What is polysemy?
A word with multiple related meanings.
What is the standard language?
The prestige variety often used in education and media.
What is structuralism?
This linguistic school emphasized observable behavior and avoided meaning.
What is syntactic analysis?
the analysis of sentence structure and word order.
What is /ʃ/?
This IPA symbol represents the “sh” sound in English.
What is implicature?
When meaning is implied rather than directly stated.
What is language stigma?
Negative beliefs or attitudes about a way of speaking.