| Grammar Grammar Grammar! | ||
| #1 | What is the phonological representation of a dialect? | Accent |
| #2 | What type of rule suggests that "I ain't got nothin" is ungrammatical? | Prescriptive |
| #3 | Which phonemes are the most common across all languages? | /p/ /t/ /k/ (Voiceless stop consonants) |
| #4 | What type of grammar tree includes phrases as a node? | syntactic trees |
| #5 | Name the features of /u/. | High back round tense |
| A Theoretical Mixed Bag | ||
| #1 | What does # mean? | Semantically incorrect |
| #2 | What term describes rules that are shared across all the world's languages? | Universal grammatical principles |
| #3 | What type of morpheme may be added to a stem without changing its lexical class? | Inflectional |
| #4 | Which linguistics term has the following definition: "In most cases, there is no inherent relationship between sound and meaning." | Abritrariness |
| #5 | Name the open classes of lexical items. | Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs |
| Structure and Order | ||
| #1 | How many allomorphs of plural 's' are there? | Three - /s/, /z/, /ɪz/ |
| #2 | Name the type of phrase and the head of the following: "the playing of a review game" | Noun phrase, "playing" |
| #3 | How many allophones of /l/ are there in English? What are they? | Two, /l/ and /ɫ/ |
| #4 | Name three constituency tests | clefting test, substitution test, coordination test |
| #5 | Classify the types of morpheme that NESS is in "happiNESS" (need 4) | derivational suffix closed bound |
| Society and Language - Sociolinguistics | ||
| #1 | What term describes the different levels of formality in language, associated also with occupational differences? | Register |
| #2 | Who speaks AAE? AND Who doesn't speak AAE? | AAE is primarily spoken by AA, but may be spoken by individuals of other races as well; it is NOT spoken by those mocking its features |
| #3 | Name the dialect that is considered most logical and why it is considered logical. | Standard dialect, b/c other varieties are spoken by minority groups, and the connotation is that the speakers of nonstandard are less logical |
| #4 | What are the 4 Gricean maxims? | Quality, quantity, relevance, manner |
| #5 | The fact that speakers work together to create meaningful discourse is known what? | The cooperative principle |
| Language in Mind | ||
| #1 | Around how many months does the average child say their first word? | Twelve |
| #2 | What term describes how the brain has split processing across hemispheres? | Lateralization |
| #3 | What term describes the loss of words or grammatical structures caused by brain injury or illness? | Aphasia |
| #4 | Which language region is associated primarily with lexical processing and retrieval? | Wernicke's Area |
| #5 | What is a lexical category or feature that supports the theory of language relativity? (3 of 5 answers required) | color terms, names for directions/spatial relations, lexical gaps, grammatical gender, kinship terms |
| Final Question | |
| Draw a tree for the following sentence: The very silly teacher forgot to make the jeopardy game until Friday afternoon. | Answers will vary - drawing required for points |