Origins of Language
What percentage of human breathing while speaking is used for in-breaths
10
Voiceless bilabial stop?
/p/
Horseshoe is an example of this type of word formation
compounding
The study of how language appears naturally vs the study of "ideal language". --> note the quotations
descriptive vs. prescriptive grammars
The scientific study of language.
Linguistics
How many years ago did written language develop?
5,000
/n/, /m/, and /ŋ/ are examples of this mode of articulation.
What are 3 types of affixes?
prefixes, infixes, suffixes
Is there ambiguity in the following sentence?
Fred and George went to the store to prepare for their party on Saturday.
Yes, Saturday may be when they shopped or when the party was
"Cutie" is an example of what type of word formation?
hypocorism
Which property is demonstrated when an ape uses a purple box to refer to an orange?
Arbitrariness
This type of consonant has a complete obstruction of the airflow.
stops
"Bro" is an example of this type of word formation
clipping
This term refers to how phrases are put together into a sentence; it involves the structure and clarity of a sentence.
syntax
The father of modern linguistics and generative grammar.
Noam Chomsky
When you wrote your linguistic autobiography, what property of human language did you display?
Reflexivity
This type of sound has no obstruction of the airflow. Its sound is determined by the position of the tongue.
vowels
What type of morpheme may cause word class change, are never required, and precede another category of morpheme?
derivational
This term involves morphology, syntax, phonology, etc.
Grammar
If you say the word "butter" more like "budder" then you have made this speech sound
flap
What two adaptations needed to develop for humans to create speech?
Respiratory system and vibration of vocal chords
Which of the following words can be described as containing an affricate?
huffle
pill
budged
hammer
budged
Laser is an example of this type of word formation
acronym
The purpose of these words is to offer a grammatical relationship versus lexical meaning
function words
What word is transcribed here? [t͡ʃiki]
cheeky