LING 201 Introduction to Linguistics

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Decks in this class (24)

Articulation
What does ipa stand for,
Ipa is a 1 to 1 correspondence be...,
How many signs and diacritics are...
20  cards
Consonants
Consonants are ____________ in,
What is the difference between ac...,
What are the places of articulation
44  cards
Vowels
What are the vowel dimensions mod...,
Identify the following vowel heig...,
What ipa is associated with a hig...
25  cards
Allophones
What is coarticulation,
What is articulatory efficiency,
What is perceptual redundancy
13  cards
Syllables
0  cards
Rules
0  cards
Processes
Palatalization is the change in a...,
What is the strongest trigger of ...,
The output in palatalization is p...
16  cards
Morphemes
0  cards
Inflection
0  cards
Derivation
0  cards
Typology
What is the term used for when sp...,
True or false mutual intelligibil...,
Swedish vs norwegian is an exampl...
25  cards
Historical Linguistics
Place the history of english lang...,
True or false when a linguistic c...,
What is the group of related lang...
11  cards
Reconstruction
What is the sound change associat...,
What is the sound change of conso...,
What is the consonant mutation un...
14  cards
Word Catgeories
True or false not all sentences a...,
True or false syntax is related t...,
True or false languages have rule...
14  cards
X-Bar
What is the theory whereby all ph...,
What are the head specifier and c...,
What are the head specifier and c...
8  cards
Movement
What is a constituent that contai...,
An entire sentence is a _________...,
A word that signals the type of c...
14  cards
Sentences
Right branching refers to the hea...,
Left branching refers to the head...,
Which languages use right branching
7  cards
Semantic Relations
True or false understanding the m...,
What is entailment,
What is equivalence
9  cards
Lexicalization
What is presupposition,
True or false negating the statem...,
Words with the same spelling or t...
11  cards
Pragmatics
Pronouns are context independent ...,
The scale of the context dependen...,
True or false implicature cannot ...
8  cards
Learning Sounds
True or false children show a pre...,
How do newborns perceive all acou...,
At how many months do children s ...
20  cards
Learning Sentences
Why is acquiring a new word a dif...,
What assumption is associated wit...,
What assumption is associated wit...
12  cards
Sociolinguistics
What are particular linguistic fe...,
What is an example of a social ma...,
True or false social markers are ...
25  cards
Languages of Canada
Which language is spoken by inkut...,
How many people speak eskimo aleu...,
Which language is spoken by navaj...
21  cards

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