Definitions
The scientific study of the human language.
What is the definition of Linguistics?
The manner of articulation of /m, n, and Å‹/.
What are nasals?
The smallest unit of grammar with meaning.
What is a morpheme?
The type of phrase of the following sentence:
"My professor is quickly grading my assignment."
What is a Verb Phrase?
The study of how society and social factors influence language.
What is sociolinguistics?
The study of how words are arranged grammatically in larger units such as phrases and sentences.
What is the definition of syntax?
Name five English fricatives.
What are /f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, and/or ʒ/?
The two main types of bound morphemes.
What are derivational and inflectional morphemes?
The standard word order in English.
What is subject-verb-object (SVO)?
A sentence that connects two clauses together with a coordinating conjunction (such as "and" or "but").
What is a compound sentence?
The study of speech sounds and patterns in a language as well as the rules that govern them.
What is phonology?
A voiced velar stop.
What is /g/?
The type of morpheme -er is in the word "farmer".
What is a derivational morpheme?
The auxiliary verb of the following sentence:
"There will be more LSA events coming up!"
What is "will"?
A type of word formation that creates new words by putting together parts of two words (such as "brunch" and "workaholic")?
What is blending?
A grammatical unit that can never stand alone and must always be attached to a word or another morpheme.
The only English lateral approximant.
What is /l/?
Name the morphemes of the word "hypoallergenic".
What are:
hypo- is a prefix
allergen is a free base
-ic is a suffix
The predicate of the following sentence:
"The students ate pizza at the event."
A voiced glottal fricative.
What is /h/?
When a consonant or vowel becomes phonetically similar to its neighbour.
What is assimilation?
A mid central unstressed vowel.
What is schwa /É™/?
The amount of word types in the following phrase:
"The LSA is excited to be back for another year, to host fun events, and to meet the lovely students of UTSC."
What is 19 word types?
The type of sentence expressed in the following:
"What time is it anyway?"
What is an interrogative sentence?
No team help allowed! The correct pronunciation of the following transcript: /ˈtʃæləndʒ/