Somthin
Humans and many animals are capable of intentionally saying something untrue or meaningless. The design feature that describes this capacity of human language is?
Prevarication
We also have the neologism ‘dub’, which comes from the previous neologism ‘w’, and often refers to a ‘win’ - calling something an ‘easy dub’ means you considered it an easy success. This neologism involves the shortening of the letter-name for ‘w’, pronounced ‘double-u’. What kind of neologism is ‘dub’?
Clipping
What are the features that are relevant to the description of a consonant?
Voicing
True or false: a syllable can have more than one nucleus?
False
The phenomenon of certain brain functions being handled mostly or entirely by a specific hemisphere of the brain is referred to as…
Lateralization
Two language varieties are normally considered dialects of the same language if …
The two language varieties are mutually intelligible
A structure in which some elements are “nested under” or subordinate to other elements, important in syntax and morphology, is called …
Hierarchical
The natural class of front vowel sounds in English consists of …
/i,ɪ,e,ɛ,æ,a/
A phonological process in which a sound is added to a word is called…
Epenthesis
Wernicke’s area is located in which lobe?
Temporal
Which is the common ancestor of the Romance language family?
Vulgar Latin
What label is the word ‘The’.
Det
The manner of articulation in which a consonant is initiated as a stop and released as a fricative is called …
Affricate
A phonological process in which a sound changes to be more like a neighboring sound is called…
Assimilation
In contexts of second language study, which term refers to when features of one language affect the learning or use of another?
Language transfer
The Han characters, or Hanzi, are an example of which kind of writing system?
Logographic
The sounds [p, t, c, g] share what feature in common?
Manner of articulation
The English word ‘brakes’ is monosyllabic and transcribed in the IPA as /bɹeɪks/. What is the nucleus of this syllable?
/eɪ/
Identify the type of phrase in the brackets:
[The green plant] grew taller every day
Noun phrase
What is the correct order of constituents in a noun phrase?
Det, Q, (Adv), Adj, N
We can consider the current use of ‘w’ as (among other things) an interjection and a neologism. This neologism resulted from taking the first letter of the word ‘win’ - w - and saying its name. What kind of neologism is this?
Abbreviation
A sequence of two vowels that is treated as a single unit by a language’s phonology is called a…
Diphthong
The English word ‘twist’ is monosyllabic and transcribed in the IPA as /twɪst/. What is the onset of this syllable?
/tw/
In the following sentence, is the bracketed phrase a constituent?
The little cat cast a long shadow [over the alleyway]
YES
Caps
Caps