Variation/Variability
The term for a specific feature of language that has multiple ways of being expressed
What is a (sociolinguistic) variable?
VOT is short for this
What is Voice Onset Time?
The unique kind of language caregivers use for their babies
What is infant-directed speech?
The term used to describe how usage of a particular variant can signal, for example, group identity
What is indexicality?
According to one of your peers, what is everyones favorite variety of Spanish? ;)
What is Argentinian Spanish?
The term used for multiple sounds representing a single phoneme
What is an allophone?
The task used to measure Theory of Mind
What is a false-belief task?
The two main (broad) perspectives to explain Theory of Mind development
What is nature (biological) vs nurture (environmental)?
The language that provided Hindustani with most of its grammatical structure
What is Sanskrit?
What is a phonologically dependent unit that often sticks onto another? (e.g., I saw /em/)
What is a clitic?
Name of pairs like this (e.g., lot and thought) not having distinct vowels
What is the cot-caught merger? (half points if just "merger")
The two competing approaches to the bilingual lexicon
What is Selective Access vs. Parallel Access?
The issue where infants must determine where one lexical item ends and another begins
What is the word segmentation issue in child language development?
The term describing the use of two writing systems for what is essentially the "same language"
What is diagraphia?
What is literature search/review?
A primary factor implicated in Pharyngeal variation in West Bank Hebrew.
What is education?
The term for a large body of data structured to support searches for specific phenomenon
What is a corpus analysis?
A term for words between languages that share the same root or are similar phonologically
What is a cognate?
The name for the subgroup of Jewish communities historically from West Asia/North Africa?
What is Mizrahi?
The term for a verb that has little semantic content on its own and gets its meaning from a nearby element (nouns, adjectives)
What is a light verb?
The reason why pin and pen sometimes merge but pit and pet do not
What is the role of nasal consonants in a merge?
The main measure used in eye-tracking studies
What is fixation/fixation time?
Name at least one of the crucial factors in determining Theory of Mind task performance (your peer shared two)
What is siblings/sibling relationships?
What is ASD?
/z/ /f/ /q/ /x/ /ɣ/
What are the phonemic shibboleths of Urdu?
The two fields Jahnai researches (250 points per field)
What is psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics?