Terminology #1
What semantic case role corresponds to a volitional instigator of an action?
What is Agent?
What do we call the ideas that people have about language, (some of which are harmful and not based in fact)?
What is Language ideologies?
Draw a syntactic tree for I jumped over the fence.
What is...
What do you call words that tend to occur together in sequence?
What is Collocation?
How many basic word orders are there?
What is 6?
What is another name for vocal fry?
What is Creaky Voice?
What is it called when someone uses a passive sentence after hearing other passive sentences?
What is Syntactic priming?
What do we call the specific kind of language used when talking to infants and kids?
What is Child-Directed Speech (CDS)?
Which object comes first in the double object construction in English?
What is Indirect Object?
What’s the name for the primary argument in favor of the generative/nativist/UG theory of language?
What is Poverty of the stimulus?
What feature of AAE is exemplified by the sentence He always late.
What is Zero copula?
What grammatical case can express a possessor?
What is Genitive?
Name as many cues as you can for intonation unit boundaries
What is Pause, rush-lag, pitch reset, creaky voice, truncation, etc.
What is the semantic relationship between on and off?
What is Complementary Antonyms (reversive would be okay as well)
What is it called when someone uses two different languages or varieties in different domains of their life (e.g., work vs. home)?
What is Diglossia?
What word describes when a child uses the word dad for every adult male?
What is Lexical overextension?
The use of a full noun phrase suggests what activation state for the referent?
What is New?
What are the four intonation contours?
What is Final, continuing, appeal, and truncated?
What common phonological error is exemplified by a child pronouncing can as [tæn]
What is Fronting?
While some words are iconic, the relationship between form and meaning for most words is…
What is Arbitrary?
What very large language family is spoken from Madagascar to Indonesia to the Philippines to Hawaii?
What is Austronesian?
What are the four Gricean maxims?
What is Quantity, Quality, Relevance, and Manner?