Phonology
The smallest unit of speech
What is a phoneme?
The category (content or function) which includes auxiliary verbs
What are function words?
The grammatical role of "boy" in "I give the book to the boy."
What is an indirect object?
The branch of linguistics concerned with the meanings of words
What is semantics?
The singer of "Minnesota"
Who is Lil Yachty?
The repetition of sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is alliteration?
The type(s) of morpheme(s) within the word "conceive"
What is a bound morpheme?
The sentence structure of "Cold."
What is a sentence fragment?
What is the discourse feature that describes this question and the expected response?
An adjacency pair
The language from where the word "littoral" originated
What is Latin?
The repetition of consonant sounds in closely connected words
What is consonance?
The present continuous tense of the first person plural form of verb "to fail"
What is "we are failing"?
A phrase that functions as an adjective in a sentence
What is an adjectival phrase?
The phenomenon whereby a word becomes obsolete
What is archaism?
Jiamu's intelligence quotient to 1 significant figure
What is 2 x 102?
The number of letters in the longest final consonant cluster in English
What is one twelfths?
The lexical process which describes the term "esky"
What is commonisation?
Both
The role of the phrase "negative patient outcome"
What is a euphemism?
The people referred to by the insult "cheese eating surrender monkeys"
Who are the French?
The word that rhymes with "orange"
What is a sporange?
The animal named after linguist Noam Chomsky, give both its species and its name, otherwise no points given.
Who is Neam "Nim" Chimpsky the chimpanzee?
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
The meaning of the phrase "pushing up daisies"
What is the verb "to die"?
The singer of the song "Ain't I Right?"
Who is Marty Robbins?