1. Double Jeopardy 20 40 60 80 100 100** History Lessons
What do you mean?
Social Studies
Fricative-initial
Morpho-phonology 20 40 60 80
100
100**
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2. Sir William Jones showed that this language was related to European languages. He later suggested that Persian was also related.
What is Sanskrit? - 20
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3. This sound change causes two segments to change postions
with each other, as in
wæsp  wasp.
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What is metathesis? - 40

4. High front vowels often trigger this change on alveolar consonants.
What is palatalization? - 60

5. Consonants in intervocalic position often undergo this historical change, examples include voicing and spirantization.
What is weakening? - 80

6. The property that distinguishes
밤 (chestnut) and 밤 (night) in
older varieties of Korean, but is virtually absent in Modern Korean.
What is vowel length? - 100

7. The denotation of this is
either 1 (true) or 0 (false).
What is a sentence? - 20

8. Two words that have similar or nearly identical meanings.
What are synonyms? - 40

9. The denotation of an intransitive verb is a set
The denotation of an intransitive verb is a set. The denotation of this is a set of sets.
What is a transitive verb? - 60

10. The Conversational Maxim that
refers to being truthful.
What is the Maxim of Quality? - 80

11. The relationship between the
following sentences:
Mary lives in Korea.
Mary lives in Asia.
What is entailment? - 100

12. These are often found in a
continuum. Ones closer together
are mutually intelligible.
What are dialects? - 20

13. What a pidgin develops into
after a few generations.
What is a creole? - 40

14. A bundle of these demarcates
a major dialect boundary?
What are isoglosses? - 60

15. the dialect which is perceived
by speakers as dominant or
superior
What is a prestige dialect? - 80

16. the coalescence of distinct dialects
into a single uniform speech form
What is dialect levelling? - 100

17. The part of the world where the highly endangered language Chulym is spoken.
What is Siberia? - 20

18. The place of articulation of [k], [ɡ], [x], [ɣ] and [ŋ].
What is velar? - 40

19. The third person plural
accusative pronoun in English.
What is them? - 60

20. The largest known historical grouping of related languages.
What is a phylum? - 80

21. This effect refers to the child’s ability to perceive the difference between two sounds, but not yet be able to articulate the two sounds differently.
What is the fis-effect? - 100

22. Two units of meaning whose
distribution is not predictable
What are morphemes? - 20

23. In Korean, consonants undergo
this phenomenon in coda
position. Thus, 덥다 and 덮다
sound identical.
What is neutralization? - 40

24. The phonological feature shared
by the following phonemes:
[m][n][ŋ][p][b][t][d][k][ɡ].
but which excludes [f][v][s][z]
What is [-continuant]? - 60

25. The kind of morpheme found in the
following words:
receive, perceive, mechanic, conspire
What is a bound root? - 80

26. The kind of conditioning in the
selection of the nominative case
allomorphs –가 and –이.
What is phonological? - 100