Phonetics/Phonology
What word class are 'I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, and them'?
Personal pronouns
What is the difference between a free morpheme and a bound morpheme?
Free morphemes can stand alone, whereas bound morphemes must be attached to a free morpheme.
What is the minimum required to construct a sentence?
Subject, verb and object
Name a paralinguistic feature:
Facial expressions, body language, gestures, gaze.
A term used for no semantic correlation (it's meaningless):
Hint: Starts with 'A'.
Arbitrary
What are the two main elements linguists use to determine consonant production?
Place of articulation, manner of articulation.
BONUS - A third is 'voicing'.
What are the three main broad categories of noun?
Common, proper, collective
What are the four sentence types?
Interrogative, exclamative, declarative, imperative
Name two strategies of spoken discourse:
turn taking, holding the floor, passing the floor, minimal response
What is the name given to a group of lexemes with interrelated meanings in a text?
Semantic field
Name two of the processes of connected speech:
(200 points per)
Elision, vowel reduction, assimilation, insertion
What are the three word classes that adverbs can modify?
Hint: Two of these are modified after the use of an adverb, not just on it's own.
Verbs, adjectives, adverbs
What are the five sentence structures?
Hint: One is a fragment.
Fragment, simple, compound, complex, compound-complex
What is an adjacency pair?
adjacent turns in a conversational interaction that have a close relationship with each other.
BONUS QUESTION (Mr Hardy short on ideas):
Who was the first prime minister of Australia?
Edmond Barton
What are the five prosodic features?
Stress, pitch, intonation, tempo, volume.
Name at least two types of verb (200 points per).
Regular verbs, Irregular verbs, Transitive verbs, Intransitive verbs, Auxiliary verbs.
(There are even more than these...)
What is a 'complement', and does it do?
A phrase or clause that provides extra information about a subject or object.
What is an interlocutor?
A person who takes part in discourse
What is semantic over-generalisation and under-generalisation?
(200 points per)
OG = Applying one word to more than it signifies
UG = Applying a narrower definition to words than they have
What does the following sentence in IPA say?
mistr hɑːdi: iz ðə best ti:tʃə evʌ
List all nine word classes
Noun, adjective, adverb, verb, determiner, pronoun, preposition, interjections, conjunctions
Identify the noun and verb phrases in the following sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Noun phrase: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"
Verb phrase: "buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
List five non-fluency features:
repair, repetition, false start, discourse particles, filled pauses
What are the seven semantic change processes?
Denotation, connotation, broadening, narrowing, elevation, deterioration, shift