Froggy Jumps
Quick quiz on syntax, semantics, and phonology.
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What is the part of grammar that represents a speaker's knowledge of sentences and their structures?
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They combine words into phrases and phrases into sentences, and define the correct word order for a language.
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What is the basic unit of syntax?
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Which type of syntactic analysis is considered the most influential?
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What are the two recognized types of syntactic categories?
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What are phonologically conditioned allomorphs?
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Why are lexically-conditioned morphemes usually classified as exceptions in English?
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What are content words?
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How can we define morphology?
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What meaning does the prefix 'pre' add in English?
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What is the function of the suffix 'ist' in English?
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How are these exotic sounds called 'Clicks' produced?
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In this chart we can find ordinary letters and invented symbols to represent all of the world's languages.
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What are deictic words?
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What is a reflexive pronoun?
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What name did Grice give to the implicit principles that language users follow to calculate implicatures?
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What are the four maxims of discourse proposed by Grice?
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What is semantics in linguistics?
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What is the difference between semantics and pragmatics?
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What do we call words that have opposite meanings?
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If a word has more than one meaning, what is this called?
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What is the subfield of semantics that studies how word meanings combine to form larger meanings?
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What syntactic categories does the lexical category include?
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What are functional categories?
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Why do languages sound so different?
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How is phonology different from phonetics?
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With which element must the verb "seem" agree, regardless of the number of words between them?
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What kind of rules do signed languages, such as ASL, have, and what is the basic word order of ASL?
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