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Linguistics
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
100
Speakers can become listeners, and listeners can become speakers; individuals do both: transmit and receive messages.
What is Interchangeability
100
Consonants produced with complete obstruction of the airflow
What is Stops/plosives
100
Preceding and following sounds
What is Environment
100
What word formation process is exemplified by the word "bromance"
What is Blending
100
What type of syntactic constituent is "five delicious chocolate chip cookies"?
What is Noun Phrase/NP
200
The ability of a language to communicate about things that are not in the immediate speech situation.
What is Displacement
200
Consonants produced with a narrow channel between articulators
What is Fricatives
200
Sounds /p/ and /b/ in English can occur in the same environment, such as word-initially before vowels: pot-bot. This is an example of ________ distribution, demonstrating that the two sounds are ________.
What is Overlapping distribution, phonemes.
200
Morpheme which create new words, sometimes changing the meaning of the word significantly.
What is Derivational morphemes
200
What type of constituency test is exemplified here: - Where did this little piggy go? - To the market.
What is Answer to question.
300
Language has an infinite capacity: at all levels of linguistic structure we can create new forms, which allows us to communicate about a broad range of ideas.
What is Productivity
300
Place of articulation for "sh" in "sharp"
What is Post-alveolar/Palato-alveolar
300
Dark /l/ in English occurs syllable finally, as in "dull", light /l/ occurs syllable initially, as in "light". This is an example of _______ distribution, demonstrating that the two sounds are ________.
What is Complementary distribution, allophones of the same phoneme.
300
Morphemes that indicate relationships between words; have a grammatical function but no meaning or referent in the world.
What is Functional morphemes.
300
The fact that "cat" in "I have five lovely cats" has a plural marker 's' on it is an example of _______ .
What is Agreement
400
The two mental components of Language
What is Lexicon and Grammar
400
What do the vowels in the following words have in common: book, caught, dog, food
What is Back vowels
400
Burmese: [ma] ‘health’ [na] ‘pain’ [nwe] ‘to flex’ [n̥wej] ‘to heat’ [n̥ej] ‘unhurried’ [m̥a] ‘order’ [m̥i] ‘flame’ [nwa] ‘cow’ [m̥jiʔ] ‘river’ [n̥a] ‘nostril’ [m̥on] ‘flour’ [mi] ‘five’ What is the status of sounds [m] and [n]? Motivate.
What is Separate phonemes/Minimal pair 'health' and 'pain'
400
Morpheme -s in 'goes' is ______ derivational/inflectional, content/function, free/bound.
What is Inflectional, function, bound
400
Optional elements of the sentence which provide additional information about some of it constituents.
What is Adjuncts
500
Performance is not a perfect reproduction of competence because of _______
What is 'Environmental’ noise and interference
500
List 5 articulatory parameters distinguishing vowels
What is Height, Backness, Rounding, Tenseness, Nasality, Diphthongization
500
Cree: [pahki] 'partly' [wa:bame:w] 'he sees him' [ni:sosap] 'twelve' [a:bihtaw] 'half' [na:be:w] 'man' ta:nispi:] 'at what time' [nibimohta:n] 'I walk' [pimibahta:w] 'he runs' What is the status of sounds [p] and [b]? Motivate.
What is Allophones of the same phoneme. [b] occurs between vowels, [p] occurs elsewhere.
500
Luiseño: [nokaamai] 'my son', [noki] 'my house', [poki] 'his house', [potaana] 'his blanket'. Morphemes with the meaning 'my' and 'his'?
What is prefix no- and po-