$100 Question from Syntax
This term, used in itsbroadest sense, refersto both the arrangementand the form of words.
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What is syntax?
$200 Question from Syntax
For most people, thisrefers to a set ofprescriptive rules theywere taught in school.
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What is grammar?
$300 Question from Syntax
This is the study of meaning. It shows thatthe meaning of ‘lexical items’ (words) arelinked 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 relationshipsbetween parts of the sentence.
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What are function words?
$500 Question from Syntax
These straddle the gap betweensyntax and semantics: thestructure surrounding themprovides clues to their meaning.
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What is a verb?
$100 Question from Morphology
The smallest syntactic unit of a word
$100 Answer from Morphology
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 newword 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 adjacentphonemes.
$400 Answer from Morphology
What is phonologically conditioned
$500 Question from Morphology
Albatross, chant, and lullaby are all this type ofmorpheme.
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What is a free morpheme?
$100 Question fromSociolinguistics
1.This restricted language may developinto a full language.
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What is a pidgin?
$200 Question fromSociolinguistics
This type of non-standardAmerican English has beencriticized.
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What is Ebonics?
$300 Question fromSociolinguistics
These people are afraid thatEnglish will collapse intoruin.
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What are Language worriers?
$400 Question fromSociolinguistics
This is the language of peoplewhose only common languageis a pidgin.
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What is a Creole?
$500 Question fromSociolinguistics
As feudalism died out, whichpronouns saw a change inusage?
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What are singular and pluralforms of you (tu and vos)?
$100 Question from Phonology
The smallest segment ofsound, which can distinguishtwo words.
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What is a Phoneme?
$200 Question from Phonolgy
Linguists study speech sounds
$200 Answer from Phonology
What is phonology?
$300 Question from Phonology
A way to indentify thephonemes of any language is tolook for…
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What is a minimal pair?
$400 Question from Phonology
There are 6, 7, and 2 total vowelphonemes.
$400 Answer from Phonology
What are short, long andreduced vowels?
$500 Question from Phonology
Consists of a series ofalternating vowel andconsonant sounds?
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What is a syllable?
$100 Question from Languageand Diversity
It is defined as the study oflanguage and society.
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What is Sociolinguistics?
$200 Question from Languageand Diversity
Any group of people who considerthat they speak the same language.
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What is a Speech community?
$300 Question from Languageand Diversity
This type of variety in speech isusually associated with aparticular geographical area.
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What is a Dialect?
$400 Question from Languageand Diversity
This refers to a difference inpronunciation.
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What is an Accent?
$500 Question from Languageand Diversity
Several different language stylesthat every native speaker isnormally in command of.
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What is are Registers?
Final Jeopardy
Spurlin (1998) identifies five of these forsecond language students reading academictexts: passive voice, comparatives andlogical connectors, modal auxiliaries, verbphrases containing prepositional phrases,and relative clauses.
Final Jeopardy Answer
What are syntacticchallenges?