Terminology #1
What do we call statements that express how language should or shouldn’t be used?
What do we call someone who speaks a lot of languages?
What is Polygot
What is the opposite of synchronic?
What is Diachronic?
What’s the little thing that hangs down in the back of your throat?
What is Uvula?
What part of your tongue makes contact with the top of the vocal tract when you articulate a /k/?
What is Back?
What place of articulation involves both lips and teeth?
What is Labiodental?
What word do we use for sounds that send airflow around one or both sides of the tongue?
What is Lateral?
What do the following sounds have in common? [ɛ, ə, o, ʌ, e]
What is Mid?
What is [ð]?
What is Voiced Interdental Fricative?
What word do we have for the grammatical pattern in which subjects of intransitives are expressed the same way as objects of transitives?
What is Ergativity?
Give an example of a grammatical mood.
What is...
What morphological process involves copying material from a root/stem?
What is Reduplication?
Nightgown is an example of what kind of morphological process?
What is Compounding?
What sounds of English are Liquids?
What is [l, ɹ]?
What inflectional category occurs primarily on adjectives?
What is Comparative/Superlative?
Give an example of an inflectional morpheme and a derivational morpheme in English.
What do the following sounds have in common? [k, θ, f, ʃ, ʔ, s, h]
What is [ʌ]?
What is Mid-Central Lax Unrounded Stressed Vowel?
What is [ɾ]?
What is Voiced Alveolar Flap/Tap?
If I use professor as a verb, this is an example of…
What is Conversion?
What do we call languages that have the greatest number of morphemes per word
What is Polysynthetic?
What is the coda of the word stretched [stɹɛtʃt]?
What is tʃt?
In a word, what does the arrow in a phonological rule mean?
What is “…becomes…?"
What is [æ]?
What is Low Front Lax Unrounded Vowel
Compare the spelling of the word Wednesday to how it is pronounced. What phonological process is this an example of?
What is Deletion or Metathesis?