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The Basis
Language Change
Reconstruction
Language Formantion
The Way We Talk
100
The name of the chart with linguistic sound symbols
What is The International Phonetic Alphabet
100
The symbol that indicates a reconstructed form
What is * (star)
100
The precursor to all Romance Languages
What is Proto-Romantic
100
A simplified, impromptu language developed out of need
What is a pidgin
100
A line on a map that represents a regional boundary of linguistic variants.
What is an isogloss
200
A bilabial, voiceless stop (a specific sound)
What is "P"
200
A sound change that takes place in certain contexts only
What is a conditioned sound change.
200
In languages that are closely related, words that correspond in form and often in meaning.
What are cognates.
200
A language that is either a mix of other existing languages, or develops from a pidgin
What is a creole
200
When speakers of different languages can understand each other
What is mutual intelligibility
300
The smallest part of language
What is a phoneme
300
A major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place between 1350&1700.
What is the Great Vowel Movement (or Shift)
300
The larger language family that includes Romance languages, Balto-Slavic languages like Russian, Germanic languages, and others.
What is Indo-European
300
The language spoken by about 90-95% of the country on the western side of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
What is Haitian Creole
300
The language spoken by Acadians and their descendants in southern Louisiana
What is Cajun French
400
The order of words in a sentence
What is syntax
400
"chocolate" and "aardvark" are examples
What are loanwords
400
Using the reconstruction/path that requires the fewest steps.
What is parsimony
400
Writer of the Jabberwocky
Who is Lewis Carroll
400
The name of the accent taught to actors that was a cross between American English and British English
What is Mid Atlantic
500
The meaning of language that may vary by context
What is semantics
500
Exaggerating pronunciation or grammar to appear more knowledgeable
What is hypercorrection
500
The idea that sound change follows a certain path, for example, from unvoiced to voiced.
What is directionality
500
A nonsense language, allegedly borrowing from Ukrainian, Tagalog, Navajo, and others.
What is Simlish
500
Refers to the pronunciation of the "r" sound
What is rhotacism.