Phonetics
This term refers to the smallest meaning-distinguishing component of language.
What is a Phoneme?
The actual phonetic realization of a conceptual morpheme in natural speech.
What is an allomorph?
This part of speech provides relational information for nouns in time and space.
What are prepositions?
The sound of this IPA symbol.
ð
What is voiced interdental fricative?
(TH as in 'The')
This area of study is concerned with patterns of sounds in language.
What is phonotactics?
What is voicing?
An affix, as in 'un-freaking-believable' or 'edu-ma-cation.'
This set of rules describes meaningful relationships of parts of speech as used in sentences.
What are phrase structure rules?
This word:
pəʤamʌz
Who is Ferdinand De Saussure.
The actual phonetic realization of a conceptual sound.
What is an allophone?
What are: Bound, functional, and inflectional?
These two meanings can be derived from the sentence:
The man caught the fish with a hook.
What are:
The fish was caught on a hook.
and
The fish had a hook and was caught.
These symbols add more information to transcriptions. They are primarily used to record Parole information for a close transcription.
What are diacritics?
English and Sanskrit likely descend from this theorized parent language.
What is Proto-Indo-European?
These three terms describe the articulation of the /S/ sound
What is voiceless alveolar fricative?
This type of morphology uses root consonants only, rather than roots made up of consonants and vowels.
Modern Hebrew is an example.
What is non-concatenative?
English has 2 or 3:
The,
A, and
An
The feature that distinguishes these two vowel sounds.
/ʊ/ and /u/
What is lip rounding?
These are the 5 features that make a language.
What are:
Duality,
Cultural transmission,
Productivity,
Arbitrariness,
Displacement
Phonemes that distinguish meaning for minimal pairs in a language are called this.
What is contrastive?
This type of morphology has minimal phonetic inflection and can result in a paragraph-long single word.
Turkish is an example.
What is agglutinative?
The least common word order. AKA Yoda speech.
What is Object Subject Verb?
Besides establishing consistent convention across languages, this is one reason researchers use IPA to more accurately represent language use.
What is to establish 1:1 sound-symbol correspondence?
This ancient philosopher developed metalinguistic studies from which we gained terms like Noun, Syllable, and Word.
Who is Aristotle