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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A pidgin, if spoken by children as a first language, will develop into what?	a creole	76%
If normal English follows an SVO word order, Yoda from Star Wars follows the _____ pattern.	OSV	76%
What sound does the IPA ŋ symbol make?	the ng from -ing	74%
What is the smallest unit of meaning in a language?	a morpheme	72%
Who is often considered the father of modern linguistics?	Noam Chomsky	71%
What is the term for a collection of similar sounds that are all perceived as the same sound by most speakers, such as the T in “top” and the T in “stop”?	a phoneme	58%
Which subfield of linguistics studies how culture affects language, and how language usage varies among members of different classes, genders, ages, and so on?	sociolinguistics	56%
What does PIE stand for?	Proto-Indo-European	50%
What is the term for a word that shares an etymological origin with another word, such as English “night” and German “Nacht”?	cognate	44%
When two words are pronounced identically except for a single sound, they are called what?	a minimal pair	38%
The difference between formal and informal language use, or the style of language used in academic writing versus motherese, is a difference in what?	register	33%
What famous experiment by Jean Berko Gleason demonstrated that children have an implicit sense of morphology, by using nonsense words to elicit word forms that the children could not possibly have memorized?	the Wug Test	33%
What theory states that language constructs thought and meaning, as opposed to language expressing an independently understood meaning?	Sapir-Whorf	30%
The ability to understand the intended meaning of another speaker is called what kind of competence?	pragmatic competence	15%
Someone who may be able to understand but is unable to communicate using language is likely suffering from what kind of brain damage?	Broca's aphasia	11%
What is the term for the kind of word whose meaning is dependent on the context in which it’s used, for example: he, tomorrow, there.	deictic	11%
What does TESOL stand for?	Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages	10%
The pronunciation of “out and about” as something more like “uh-oot and abuh-oot” or “oat and aboat” is called what?	Canadian raising	8%
Most of language processing appears to take place along which fissure of the brain?	the Sylvian	2%

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