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Phonetics
Sociolinguistics
General
Historical
Syntax
100
There, Their, They're
What are homophones?
100
William Labov
Who is the father of modern Sociolinguistics?
100
The Scientific Study of Language
What is Linguistics?
100
Indo-European
What is the Language Family English descends from?
100
Universal Grammar
What is Chomsky's proposed underlying mechanism for Linguistic Knowledge?
200
When your first language knowledge hinders your ability to gain fluency in a second language.
What is negative transfer.
200

[ɛ] --> [I] before nasals

What is the pin/pen merger?
200
8,000+
What is the number of spoken languages in existence today? 
200
The removal of sounds from a system.
What is deletion? 
200
Merge
What is the fundamental unit of UG?
300
/v/
What is a voiced interdental fricative?
300
The downgrading of depreciation of a word's meaning.
What is pejoration?
300
A word of more specific meaning than its superordinate term.
What is a hyponym?
300
Lexical and Structural
What are the two types of borrowing?
300
When a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. 
What is agreement?
400
Broca's Area
What is the brain region responsible for speech production?
400
Chinese, Spanish, Hindi. In that order
What are the world's most common languages? 
400
The common name for language impairments.
What is aphasia?
400

b > p > ɸ

What is Grimm's Law?
400
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. 
What is a garden path sentence?
500
The most important assumption of the source-filter theory of speech production. 
What is independence?
500
A word or phrase that results from the misinterpretation of another common word or phrase.
What are egg corns?
500

the brain region responsible for speech perception

What is Wernicke's Area?

500

The law stating that the distributional frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table.

What is Zipf's Law?

500
The property of human language the solves Aristotle's creativity problem.
What is recursivity?