Linguistics & Study of Language

Question 1

What area of the head can lose the “ability to process and produce language” when trauma/injuries occur?

Answer 1

Left Side

Question 2

What is Lateralization?

Answer 2

Certain functions are located in certain parts of the brain

Question 3

What can neurolinguistics do to help others?

Answer 3

Help those who suffered from a stroke or traumatic brain injury

Question 4

What field of linguistics is “The study of the internal structures of words”?

Answer 4

Morphology
(How do we break words down into parts?
What do these parts do?)

Question 5

What do you do in Morphology?

Answer 5

Identify the root of the word, which caries the meaning of the word

Question 6

What is a Morpheme?

Answer 6

Minimal unit of a word’s meaning

Each unit will have it’s own meaning

Question 7

What are “Free Morphemes”?

Answer 7

Words that have a meaning within themselves that don’t need other morphemes

Question 8

What are “Bound/Inflectional Morphemes”?

Answer 8

Words that will need to be attached to something else to have meaning

Question 9

In “Beautiful” and “Jumper”, What are the free and Bound Morphemes?

Answer 9

Beautiful : “Beauty” is Free / “-ful” is bound

Jumper : “Jump” is Free / “-er” is bound

Question 10

What do affixes (prefix/suffix) do?

“Talk-ing” / “Bi-lingual”

Answer 10

Change grammatical category of a word

Question 11

What do Morphologists do?

Answer 11

1) Take Words
2) Break parts down to roots
3) Identify what the parts do

Question 12

What field of linguistics is “ The study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences”?
Example: Metaphors, Idioms, Connotations, Entailment (how words connect to one another)

Answer 12

Semantics

Ways we use words in certain situations

Question 13

What field of linguistics is “The study of speech sounds”?

Answer 13

Phonetics

Identify how sound is produced

Question 14

What is included in the “Phonetic Apparatus”?

Answer 14

Lips
Tongue
Teeth
Nasal Cavity

Question 15

What is looked at in the Phonetic Apparatus?

Answer 15

How vowel and constant sounds are produced

Question 16

What field of linguistics is “The study of structures phrases and sentences”?

Answer 16

Syntax

structure of the sentence and how all words come together to relate to each other

Question 17

What do you do in Syntax, starting with an hierarchy?

Answer 17

1. ) Break sentence down into their parts (subject, predicate, words, etc.)
2. ) Analyze how they relate to each other, as well as function

Question 18

What is a “Dialect”?

Answer 18

Form of language that differs in systematic ways

Question 19

What can Dialect correspond to?

Answer 19

Geographical Region (U.S.)
Ethnic Group
Social Group
Gender

Question 20

When does a Dialect become a Language?

Answer 20

When speakers of different dialects no long understand each other

Question 21

In “Let it go: 25 languages”, Why were 4 dialects chosen to be a part of the song?

Answer 21

Those dialects, for example: Castilian Spanish, correspond to royalty and reputation

Question 22

What is Societal Bilingualism?

Answer 22

When (2) languages are official and government approves using (2) languages in government buisnesses