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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Syntax

This term, used in its broadest sense, refers to both the arrangement and the form of words.

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What is syntax?

$200 Question from Syntax

For most people, this refers to a set of prescriptive rules they were taught in school.

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What is grammar?

$300 Question from Syntax

This is the study of meaning. It shows that the meaning of ‘lexical items’ (words) are linked together in intricate lexical structures.

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What is semantics?

$400 Question from Syntax

These are words such as of, by, that, which indicate relationships between parts of the sentence.

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What are function words?

$500 Question from Syntax

These straddle the gap between syntax and semantics: the structure surrounding them provides clues to their meaning.

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What is a verb?

$100 Question from Morphology

The smallest syntactic unit of a word

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What is a Morpheme?

$200 Question from Morphology

A morpheme that has many phonological forms.

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What is an allomorph?

$300 Question from Morphology

A bound morpheme that creates an entirely new word is this type of morpheme

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What is a derivational morpheme?

$400 Question from Morphology

An allomorph form that is dependent on adjacent phonemes.

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What is phonologically conditioned

$500 Question from Morphology

Albatross, chant, and lullaby are all this type of morpheme.

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What is a free morpheme?

$100 Question from Sociolinguistics

1.This restricted language may develop into a full language.

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What is a pidgin?

$200 Question from Sociolinguistics

This type of non-standard American English has been criticized.

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What is Ebonics?

$300 Question from Sociolinguistics

These people are afraid that English will collapse into ruin.

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What are Language worriers?

$400 Question from Sociolinguistics

This is the language of people whose only common language is a pidgin.

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What is a Creole?

$500 Question from Sociolinguistics

As feudalism died out, which pronouns saw a change in usage?

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What are singular and plural forms of you (tu and vos)?

$100 Question from Phonology

The smallest segment of sound, which can distinguish two words.

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What is a Phoneme?

$200 Question from Phonolgy

Linguists study speech sounds

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What is phonology?

$300 Question from Phonology

A way to indentify the phonemes of any language is to look for…

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What is a minimal pair?

$400 Question from Phonology

There are 6, 7, and 2 total vowel phonemes.

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What are short, long and reduced vowels?

$500 Question from Phonology

Consists of a series of alternating vowel and consonant sounds?

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What is a syllable?

$100 Question from Language and Diversity

It is defined as the study of language and society.

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What is Sociolinguistics?

$200 Question from Language and Diversity

Any group of people who consider that they speak the same language.

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What is a Speech community?

$300 Question from Language and Diversity

This type of variety in speech is usually associated with a particular geographical area.

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What is a Dialect?

$400 Question from Language and Diversity

This refers to a difference in pronunciation.

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What is an Accent?

$500 Question from Language and Diversity

Several different language styles that every native speaker is normally in command of.

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What is are Registers?

Final Jeopardy

Spurlin (1998) identifies five of these for second language students reading academic texts: passive voice, comparatives and logical connectors, modal auxiliaries, verb phrases containing prepositional phrases, and relative clauses.

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What are syntactic challenges?