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  • This quiz has been taken 341 times
  • The average score is 8 of 19

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HintAnswer% Correct
A pidgin, if spoken by children as a first language, will develop into what? a creole
77%
If normal English follows an SVO word order, Yoda from Star Wars follows the _____ pattern.OSV
77%
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
73%
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
59%
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
52%
What is the term for a word that shares an etymological origin with another word, such as English “night” and German “Nacht”? cognate
45%
When two words are pronounced identically except for a single sound, they are called what? a minimal pair
39%
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
29%
The ability to understand the intended meaning of another speaker is called what kind of competence? pragmatic competence
16%
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
9%
Most of language processing appears to take place along which fissure of the brain? the Sylvian
2%

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