Sounds and Words
How many vowels are there in English?
15
_____ is the study of meaning.
Semantics
What is the reconstructed ancestral language of related languages called?
A proto-language
A ___ is a person who is multilingual.
Polyglot
What is the first stage of language acquisition?
Babbling
In the word "protective" is the morpheme "-ive" a free or bound morpheme?
Bound
Is the verb in the following phrase transitive or intransitive?
"The boy sat with his dad"
intransitive
"Holiday" is an example of what kind of semantic change?
Broadening
Political boundaries and ______ determine whether two languages are distinct or dialects.
Mutual intelligiblity
The ___ of language acquisition is the biological period when humans acquire their first language.
Critical period
If [p] and [b] occur in complementary distribution, then these two sounds are ___ of the same phoneme.
Allophones
Which example does not follow the rule PP --> P NP:
a) on
b) on the table
c) sit on the table
a) on
What approximate time period did the great vowel shift occur?
1400-1600 (between Middle and Modern English)
Which is not a feature of a creole?
a) Has native speakers
b) Originated from a pidgin
c) Not a fully developed language
C) Creoles are fully developed languages
A child might say "singed" instead of "sang" or "sheeps" instead of "sheep". What is this characteristic of child speech production called?
Overgeneralization
What are the 3 features of the consonant [s]?
voiceless alveolar fricative
What is the sentence proposed by Noam Chomsky that proves that semantics and syntax act independently?
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Grimm's Law affected what proto-language?
proto-Germanic
AAE grammar uses “be” in a specific way. What is this “be” called?
Habitual be
When an aphasia patient speaks in fluent and full sentences that don't make sense, that is ____ aphasia.
Wernicke’s
Write the IPA transcription and the phonemic (broad) transcription of the word "can".
/kæn/ [khæ̃ːn]
Using this data set, which morpheme means past tense?
s'tamale Bob = Bob sang
'tamale Bob = Bob sings
spara Bob = Bob told
para Bob = Bob tells
sbeelai Bob = Bob worked
beelai Bob = Bob works
s-
Write out the full table of 9 sound changes for Grimm's Law.
1.*bh → b 2. *dh → d 3. *gh → g
4.*b → p 5. *d → t 6.*g → k
7.*p → f 8. *t → θ 9.*k → x or h
Name a language isolate from Europe or Montana.
Basque or Kootenai
What is the MLU of this child?
"in talk Alice"
"lots dog"
"push Daddy heater"
"Ruff like too"
"like chips"