General Linguistics

What theory states that language constructs thought and meaning, as opposed to language expressing an independently understood meaning?

Who is often considered the father of modern linguistics?

When two words are pronounced identically except for a single sound, they are called what?

What is the smallest unit of meaning in a language?

What does PIE stand for?

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”?

The pronunciation of “out and about” as something more like “uh-oot and abuh-oot” or “oat and aboat” is called what?

A pidgin, if spoken by children as a first language, will develop into what?

Someone who may be able to understand but is unable to communicate using language is likely suffering from what kind of brain damage?

Most of language processing appears to take place along which fissure of the brain?

What does TESOL stand for?

What sound does the IPA ŋ symbol make?

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.

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 ability to understand the intended meaning of another speaker is called what kind of competence?

Which subfield of linguistics studies how culture affects language, and how language usage varies among members of different classes, genders, ages, and so on?

What is the term for a word that shares an etymological origin with another word, such as English “night” and German “Nacht”?

The difference between formal and informal language use, or the style of language used in academic writing versus motherese, is a difference in what?

If normal English follows an SVO word order, Yoda from Star Wars follows the _____ pattern.