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General Facts about Linguistics
Phonetics/ Phonology
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Syntax
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The study of how language works.
What is Linguistics?
100
The smallest unit of speech that can distinguish words.
What is a phoneme?
100
One of the longest words in the English language, antidisestablishmentarianism, has 7 of them.
What is a morpheme?
100
We say that an utterance is _________ if native speakers judge it to be a possible sentence of their language.
What is grammatical?
100
This term refers to a speaker's assumption that the listener has prior knowledge of something.
What is presupposition?
200
The area of linguistics concerned with how sentences are made out of words.
What is syntax?
200
Labial, labiodental, dental, alveolar, palatal, velar, glottal are examples.
What are places of articulation ?
200
A morpheme that must be attached to another element is one of these.
What is a bound morpheme?
200
We can test for it by substituting a pronoun (e.g. 'it') in a sentence.
What is a Noun Phrase (NP)?
200
"I'm cold, but I don't mean you have to close the window" is an example of cancelling this.
What is an implicature?
300
A set of rules for language.  "Never split infinitives" is an example.
What is prescriptive grammar?
300

[ʃ], [θ], [h], [v] are examples.

What is a fricative?

300

This type of affix changes the meaning and often the grammatical category of a word.

What is derivational?

300
Coordination, "do so" substitution, pronoun substitution and  movement are all examples of this:
What is a constituency test?
300
In Sign Language, head-tilt, eyebrow raising and gaze direction are examples of this.
What is a non-manual marker?
400
All the words you know.
What is lexicon?
400

One of a set of possible sounds used to pronounce a phoneme, often occuring in predictable environments in complementary distribution.

What is an allophone?

400

Languages with this type of morphology encode one meaning per morpheme.

What is agglutinative?

400

The italicized portion of this sentence:


Without help, you might never get the mark you want on your exam.

What is a VP (Verb Phrase)?
400
Sindarin, Quenya and Klingon are all this type of language. 
What is constructed?
500
Around 6000
What is the number of languages spoken on Earth?
500
The set of constraints on how sequences of segments pattern.
What is Phonotactics?
500
A set of morphemes with related meanings (example: verb conjugation).
What is a paradigm?
500
"The tree near the house on the lake behind the mountain outside of Nelson in British Columbia" is an example of this feature of generative grammar.
What is recursion?
500

Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellinic, Albanian, Armenian, Baltic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian are branches of this language family.

What is Indo-European?