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General Facts about Linguistics
Phonetics/ Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Miscellaneous
100
THe study of how language works.
What is Linguistics?
100
The phonetic context in which a sound occurs.
What is environment?
100
The most important component of word structure, the smallest unit of language that carries information about meaning or function.
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
One of the sources of enriching the vocabulary of a language when contact between languages occurs.
What is borrowing?
200
6900.
What is the approximate amount of languages in the world?
200
Labial, labiodental, interdental, alveolar, alveopalatal, palatal, velar, glottal.
What are the names of consonants according to the main 8 places of articulation ?
200
A morpheme that must be attached to another element is one of these.
What is a bound morpheme?
200
Names of the five lexical categories.
What is noun, verb, adjective, preposition, and adverb?
200
A language with many inflectional affixes.
What is a synthetic language?
300
Prescriptivism and descriptivism.
What are the two main approaches to the study of a language?
300
It means 'sound, voice'.
What does the Greek word ‘phone’ mean?
300
Complex words usually consist of a ______ morpheme and one or more _________.
What is root and affixes?
300
The determiner, auxiliary verb, conjunction, and degree word are examples of this category.
What are the representatives of nonlexical or functional category?
300
A rudimentary language with minimal grammatical rules and a small lexicon.
What is a pidgin?
400
Generality, parity, universality, mutability, inaccessibility.
What are the main 5 characteristics of grammar?
400
Assimilation , dissimilation (delition), epenthesis, (insertion), metathesis (reordering a sequence of segments).
What are the main phonetic articulatory processes?
400
The form to which an affix is added.
What is a base?
400
This is the obligatory nucleus around which a phrase is built.
What is the phrase head?
400
Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellinic, Albanian, Armenian, Baltic, Slavic, Indo-Iranian.
What are the main branches of Indo-European language family?
500
Phonetics, Phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
What are the main components of grammar
500
The set of constraints on how sequences of segments pattern.
What is Phonotactics?
500
This is a process that assigns an already existing word to a new syntactic category. Example: Butter (N) ----> Butter (V).
What is Conversion?
500
The larger phrase within which a complement clause is contained.
What is the matrix (main) clause?
500
Synonymy, antonymy, polysemy and homophony.
What are the names of the basic semantic relations among words?