This point of articulation is made when the tongue comes into contact with the bony ridge above and behind the upper teeth. Consonants produced by such means are called
What is alveolar?
100
Morphology is the study of the form or shape of words in a language. The smallest unit of meaning in a language is part of morphology. What is it?
What is morpheme?
100
The difference between "voiced" and "unvoiced" sounds in English is a matter of whether or not this is vibrating.
What are the vocal chords?
100
The "P" in IPA, or the study of speech sounds, whether phonemic or not!
What is Phonetic or Phonetics
100
Change that takes place over time in a language is referred to as what kind of change?
What is diachronic?
200
This ubiquitous PDE vowel phoneme is produced in the mid-central region of the mouth and represented by many spellings.
What is schwa?
200
Not just an empty reference to quibbling about rhetoric, this part of a language system refers to changes in meaning such as generalization and narrowing or abstraction and conretization.
What is semantics?
200
The place an articulator touches to form a sound is known as ______________
What is the point of articulation?
200
If transcribed, /aı pi e/
What is IPA?
200
When a change in pronunciation occurs over time because it takes place in the context of a following sound, such as the reduction of the vowel sound in the words "pin" and "pen" to /pın/, it is this kind of a change:
What is conditioned change?
300
A vowel-like sound produced when the tongue is moving from one position to another in a glide.
What is a diphthong?
300
A simple example like the difference between "I had stolen my car" and "I had my car stolen" illustrates how crucial the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences are in English. The part of a language system concerned with such arrangement is known as what?
What is syntax?
300
The back of the tongue.
What is the dorsum?
300
What the Canadian said after using the lavatory
What is IP,A?
300
The loss of /h/ in OE "hring" and "hlude," PDE "ring" and "loud," is an example of a change in language called variously “loss,” “reduction,” or _________.
What is fusion?
400
The "liquid" consonants in PDE consist of lateral and retroflex sounds produced without friction. Liquids consist of what two consonants?
What is What is /l/ and /r/.
400
Affixes in a language may consist of prefixes and suffixes. Suffixes consist to two kinds. The one that indicates a grammatical relationship, like "-s" for plural and "-ed" for past tense, is what kind of an affix?
What is an inflectional affix?
400
This point of articulation is good for kissing and for making sounds like /p/, /b/, and /m/.
What is bilabial?
400
The final step in the ponemization of writing, in which each symbol represents a separate phoneme but not an entire syllable.
What is an Alphabet?
400
OE "lætan" (to allow) and OE "lettan" (to hinder) were so similar in pronunciation that eventually one word was abandoned in favor of the other to produce PDE "let," providing us with a historical example not of external change but of:
What is internal change?
500
Differentiating between a phoneme and a non-distinctive variant of a phoneme depends entirely upon one's native language. It is often said that one man's phoneme is another man's _____________.
What is an allophone?
500
All parts of a language system change over time, but which one changes the least?
What is orthography or the graphic system of a language?
500
The voiceless, alveopalatal affricate, necessarily mastered by your professor but not the original captain of the Starship Enterprise.
What is /č/?
500
Having nothing to do with linguistics, this style of beer begins with a high-gravity and is heavily hopped, so named because it was the beer the British shipped to India in the eighteenth century so British colonizers could enjoy their pints while oppressing the natives on the sub-continent.
What is IPA?
500
"Desktop," "laptop," and "mouse" are all examples of new meanings applied to old words as a result of change brought about by new technology and the media. Becuase this change is not intrinsic to a language, this kind of historical change is called ___________