This process in linguistics might involve trekking into the Amazon.
What is fieldwork?
200
This phenomenon is analogous to seeing either Superman or Clark Kent.
What is complementary distribution?
200
The lexical category of the word ‘toves’ in the following sentence: “‘Twas brillig and the slithy TOVES did gyre and gimble in the wabe”.
What is a noun?
200
The only person with a fashion sense in our department.
Who is Jane Paris?
200
He wears slinky sweaters.
Who is Lev Michael?
300
A theory, advanced by Chomsky and highly contested by Dan Everett.
What is Universal Grammar?
300
Consonants of this manner of articulation appear in all places of articulation.
What are fricatives?
300
Words that have little lexical meaning but express grammatical concepts.
What are function words?
300
The total minimum number of units needed for the major
What is thirty?
300
His ex-wife recently retired.
Who is George Lakoff?
400
A controversial idea developed in the early 20th century, this postulate is named after two linguists and can be captured in the phrase: “eskimos have 17 words for snow”.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
400
This illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound.
What is the McGurk Effect?
400
This type of language marks arguments according to transitivity.
What is Ergative-Absolutive?
400
The number of the floor, counting up from here, which the main entrance of Dwinelle is located on; also a critical variable in Labov’s New York sociolinguistic study.
What is fourth?
400
He is not a syntactician and can prove it.
Who is Larry Mid Hyman?
500
Tolkien was a practitioner of this ancient field of written linguistics.
What is philology?
500
An acoustic measure of whether a stop is voiced, unvoiced or aspirated.
What is VOT?
500
This is used when an argument is nonexistent, but syntactically required.
What is a dummy/pleonastic subject?
500
This is when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.