Language!
Language families as disparate as Celtic, Slavic, & Indo-Iranian are part of the family called Indo-this
What is Indo-European?
Ring ring--it's the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech
In phonetics these can be pulmonic like T or F or non-pulmonic like clicks
What are consonants?
This is the room that LUC would normally meet in
What is Lattimore 513?
A triphthong isn't your swimsuit it's a group of 3 of these sounds in one syllable
These systems of communication that use the hands can be as rich & complex as spoken tongues
Considered part of grammar it's the study of the interrelation of words in a sentence
What is syntax?
Sentence diagrams called these may include lines called branches
What are trees?
This is the favorite ~animal~ of linguists everywhere (particularly in LUC)
What is a wug?
This famed M.I.T. scholar has proposed that humans have the inborn ability to learn language
C H O M S K Y
Study of the Indo-European family began in 1786 with a scholar noting this ancient tongue's affinity with Greek & Latin
What is Sanskrit?
Problems with pinning down word meaning is a section in a textbook titled this subject
What is semantics?
As in saying the word cough a glottal stop is a speech sound made by closing these & releasing them
What are the vocal cords?
These are the animals LUC made a collage of for the Spring GIM
What are frogs and toads (anurans)?
Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life became this film with Amy Adams as a linguistics professor (and we watched this movie in LUC *wink*)
What is Arrival?
Among the Uralic languages are Finnish Estonian & this main language of the Carpathian basin
What is Hungarian?
The NY Times dialect quiz is an example of this field of linguistics
What is socioling?
It's not just a Louisiana French dialect but any language that evolves from pidgin speech
What is creole?
In this movie we watched in LUC, Shannon fell in love with yet another fictional man: Loki
What is Thor?
The linguistics dept. at the Univ. of Toronto said this team name is not incorrectly pluralized, as it is a proper noun
Who are the Toronto Maple Leafs? (What are...? I don't know which is right!)
Most of this country's people are Khmer & speak the Khmer language
What is Cambodia?
It's the branch of linguistics that deals with the origin & development of words
What is etymology?
This linguistic term for the performer of a verbal action sounds like an actor's representative
This club is the best club on campus
What is LUC?
Now known more for political work this linguist came up with the concept of universal grammar
Chomsky, again, because of the few linguistics questions that Jeopardy has, Chomsky appears as an answer twice so I thought that to get the true Linguistics Jeopardy experience he would have to appear twice on our Jeopardy as well