Phonetics/Phonology
Morphology/Syntax
Semantics/Pragmatics
Language Acquisition/Language Variation
Miscellaneous
100

This is the term for a vowel and any consonants that come after it.

Rhyme

100
These are classes of words that differ in how other words can be constructed out of them.

Lexical categories

100

These are pairs of words that suggest movement.

Reverses

100

This is a period of time in an individual's life during which a behavior must be acquired.

Critical period
100

This is the "hidden" knowledge you have about language.

linguistic competence

200

The name for the mechanism used to create sounds that are exhaled.

Pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism

200

This is the process of creating words out of other words, resulting in a different lexical category.

Derivation

200

This has to do with what preceded a particular utterance in a discourse.

Linguistic competence

200

This is a group of people that speak the same dialect.

Speech community

200

The means by which messages are transmitted and received:

Mode of communication

300

The name for sounds produced when air is constricted at the larynx.

Glottal sounds.

300
This rule states that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the expressions it contains & on the way they are syntactically combined.

Principle of compositionality

300

These are the guiding principles of conversational interactions.

Maxims

300

These gestures are invented by deaf children and the people with whom they routinely interact in cases where a signed language is not made available.

Homesign

300

The phonetic influence of a second language on a first language.

Back transfer or phonetic drift

400

Segments that have a high-pitched, hissing sound quality.

and

A list of these sounds for English.

sibilants

[s, ʃ, t͡ʃ, z, ʒ, d͡ʒ]

400

The type of compounding for: car-insurance salesman

and

the type of compounding for: shoe-shiner

Compounding of compounded words

and

compounding of affixed words

400

Speakers should avoid using this if they don't want to violate the first maxim of manner (avoid obscurity of expression)

Jargon

400

Children at this phrase are limited to one word at a time in production, but understand and probably intend the meaning of more than a single word.

Holophrastic

400

This word can be used to describe these four languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian

Mutually intelligible

500

The maximum syllable structure for English (think Cs + Vs)

and

The maximum syllable structure for Hawaiian

CCCVCCC

and

CV

500

The name of the test where a constituent is displaced to the left.

and

The name of the test where you replace a constituent with a single word (or simple phrase).

Clefting

and

Substitution

500

Grices maxims are these type of rules, as opposed to natural laws.

Social

500

A speech variety that can be considered a pure dialect (i.e., purely regional, purely ethnic, etc.) requires this. 

Communicative isolation

500

Name four reasons for code switching that we discussed in real-world examples.

Euphemism

Specificity

Bilingual punning

Principle of economy