Morphology
Syntax
Phonetics
Phonology
Computational Linguistics
100
The smallest meaningful unit in language.

What is a morpheme?

100

The part of speech of definite articles ('the'), in linguistics class.

What is a determiner?

100
A writing system with a one-to-one phoneme to grapheme correspondence.

What is the IPA?

100

A process by which a sound is added.

What is epenthesis?

100

Technology that translates from one language to another.

What is machine translation?

200

This type of morpheme must attach to a stem in order to make a word.

What is a bound morpheme?

200

A subordinating conjunction.

What is a complementizer?

200

How many oscillations occur in a unit of time.

What is frequency?

200

A mental speech sound.

What is a phoneme?

200

The storage and management of language data.

What is corpus linguistics?

300

This type of morpheme does a grammatical job.

What is a function morpheme?

300
A sentence that has two meanings because there are two possible tree structures.

What is syntactic ambiguity?

300

A group of speech sounds in a language that share some phonetic feature or features in common.

What is a natural class?

300

Two sounds that are in complementary distribution.

What are allophones of the same phoneme?

300

Technology that requires the use of human language.

What is speech language technology?

400

A type of ambiguity that comes from two monomorphemic words having different meanings, but happening to be pronounced the same.

What is lexical ambiguity?

400

A group of words that function as a syntactic unit.

What is a syntactic constituent?

400

A property of a sound that can be used to describe or classify the sound.

What is a phonetic feature?

400

The sounds that come before and after the sound that we're studying.

What is phonetic environment?

400

The type of technology that allows YouTube to generate automatic captions.

What is Automatic Speech Recognition?

500

The type of morpheme that un- is in the word unlockable.

What is bound, content?

500

This morphological language type tends to have free word order.

What is a synthetic language?

500

An example of a vowel with a low first formant and a high second formant.

What is [i]?

500

A rule that describes which sounds can go where.

What is a phonotactic rule?

500
A corpus that includes recordings of children who are learning their first language.

What is CHILDES? (or, what is Talk Bank?)