Statistics for English Linguistics

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Question	Answer	Hint/Example	% Correct
descriptive linguistics ?	describe how people speak		100%
sign ?	combination of form and meaning		50%
What are linguistics ?	scientific investigation of language		50%
diachronic linguistics ?	study of changes in language over time		50%
What is phonetics ?	study of human speech sounds		50%
synchronic linguistics ?	study of language at certain points in time		50%
prescriptive linguistics ?	to tell people how to speak		50%
acronyms	abbreviations pronounced as regular words		0%
initialisms	abbreviations where every letter is pronounced separately		0%
productivity	ability to form new words		0%
lexeme	abstract category of words		0%
suffix	affix attached after root or base		0%
prefix	affix attached before root or base		0%
inflectional affixes	affixes that create a new word form		0%
derivational affixes	affixes that create new lexemes		0%
constituency test	aim to detect whether a word is a constituent		0%
ingressive velaric ?	air sucked in from the tongue and velum		0%
complementary distribution ?	allophones occur exclusively in one specific phonetic context		0%
base	any form of to which affixes can be attached		0%
obligatory assimilation ?	assimilation is always realized		0%
regressive assimilation ?	assimilation works backwards		0%
progressive assimilation ?	assimilation works forward		0%
connotation	associations with a word based on world knowledge but that are not sense relation		0%
maxim of manner	be brief, orderly and clear		0%
free morphemes	can occur on their own		0%
bound morphemes	can't occur on their own		0%
tonality	chunking of speech into intonationphrases		0%
denotion	class of entities to which a linguistic expression potentially refers		0%
what's the task of the velum ?	closing and opening of oral / nasal cavity		0%
compounding	combination of two ore more lexemes into a new word		0%
suprasegmental phonology ?	concerned with larger units such as syllables words and intonation phrases		0%
syllabic consonant ?	consonant that acts as the nucleus of a syllable		0%
derivation	creating a new word by adding a derivational affix		0%
shortening	creation of new lexemes through the deletion of material		0%
segmental phonology ?	deals with speech sounds		0%
grammatical function (1)	demarcative		0%
negative face	desire not to be imposed on by others		0%
positive face	desire to be well thought of		0%
allophone ?	different realization of a phoneme without meaning change		0%
allomorph	different realization of the same morpheme without meaning change		0%
maxim of quality	do not say what you believe to be false		0%
perlocution	effect of the act on the hearer		0%
attitudinal function	expresses attitude and emotion		0%
egressive glottalic airstream ?	from the larynx outwards		0%
what is egressive pulmonic airstream ?	from the lungs outwards		0%
ingressive glottalic airstream ?	glottis makes the air move inwards		0%
word-form	grammatical specification of a lexeme		0%
auditory phonetics ?	how are speech sounds perceived		0%
articulatory phonetics ?	how are speech sounds produced		0%
rising tone	incompleteness		0%
and when they are labiodental ?	in contact with teeth		0%
falling tone	information		0%
focusing function	informational		0%
epenthesis ?	inserting sounds to simplify pronunciation		0%
ilocution	intention of the speaker	e.g. command	0%
fall-rise tone	limited agreement		0%
locution	linguistic form of the speech act		0%
politeness	linguistic strategy to minimize threats to the listeners face		0%
indirect speech act	locution without performative verb		0%
direct speech act	locution with performative verb		0%
heavy syllable ?	long vowel or diphthong in the nucleus		0%
tone	looks at fall and rise		0%
What parts of the body are involved in Speaking ?	lungs vocal tract mouth nose tongue lips		0%
maxim of quantity	make contribution as informative as it is required and not more		0%
indexical function	mark of personal identity		0%
Intonation ?	melody of speech		0%
concept	mental category that is used to classify objects		0%
zero morph	no additional form added		0%
vowel alternation	no plural form added but a change in the vowel		0%
tonicity	nucleus placement		0%
referent	object for which speaker uses a particular expression		0%
unique morphemes	occur in only one word in a language		0%
elision ?	omission of sounds		0%
face	ones public self image		0%
Monophthongs ?	one vowels sound		0%
psychological function	organize speech into units that are easy to perceive		0%
root	part of a complex word that remains when all affixes have been removed		0%
non-linguistic context	physical and or social setting of utterance		0%
what are the lips doing when they are bilabial ?	pressed together		0%
assimilation ?	process where adjacent sounds with differing properties become more similar		0%
word formation process	process which create new lexical words		0%
meaning	relation between a linguistic expression and a concept		0%
stress ?	relative prominence of a syllable within a word		0%
what sounds does the uvula produce ?	r sounds		0%
conversion	same form different word class and meaning		0%
polysemy	same word with the same form but different related meanings	wing	0%
maxim of relevance	say what is relevant in the present context		0%
sense relation	semantic relationship where words share a crucial aspects of their meaning		0%
triphthong ?	sequence of diphthong		0%
diphthongs ?	series of two sounds but one vowel phoneme		0%
grammar (2)	set of rules to create well-formed sentences		0%
light syllable ?	short vowel in the nucleus and no coda		0%
discourse function	signal how sequences of clauses and sentences go together		0%
phoneme ?	smallest distinctive unit in the sound system of a language		0%
morphemes	smallest meaningful units		0%
syllable ?	smallest rhythmic unit of spoken language		0%
what sounds are vowels ?	sounds that don't obstruct the airflow		0%
what sounds are consonants ?	sounds that obstruct the airflow		0%
grammar (1)	speakers knowledge of their language		0%
what is phonology ?	speakers knowledge of the sound system		0%
declaration	speech act that changes an existing state of affairs		0%
expressive	speech act that states what speaker feels		0%
representative	speech act when speaker states which he believes to be the case	explaining	0%
directive	speech act whose aim is to make the here do something	e.g commands	0%
received pronunciation ?	standard form of British English pronunciation		0%
constituent/phrase	string of words which syntactically behaves as a unit		0%
morphology	study of internal structure of words		0%
semantics	study of meaning		0%
syntax	study of sentence structure		0%
pragmatics	study of what we do with language and the meaning in context		0%
closed syllable ?	syllable with coda		0%
open syllable ?	syllable without coda		0%
grammatical function (2)	syntactic		0%
minimal pair test ?	test to find out whether a phoneme is part of the sound system		0%
speech act theory	theory to systematically describe the speakers intention		0%
homonymy	two different words with the same form but different unrelated meaning	Ball	0%
coalesence ?	two sounds become merge to form a new sound		0%
compression ?	two syllables become compressed into one		0%
larynx ?	voice box		0%
linguistic context	what has been said before and after an utterance		0%
polymorphemic words	words consisting of more than one morpheme		0%
monomorphemic words	words that consist of only one morpheme		0%
homophones	words unrelated in meaning but sound alike but spelled different	I-eye	0%
homographs	words unrelated in meaning but spelled alike but sound different	lead	0%
nucleus of the IP	word within an intonationphrases which receives the strongest accent		0%