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** Compliments of the James Madison Center, JMU
Sir William Jones showed that this language was related to European languages. He later suggested that Persian was also related. What is Sanskrit? - 20 Category 1 - 10
This sound change causes two segments to change postions with each other, as in wæsp wasp. Category 1 - 20 What is metathesis? - 40
High front vowels often trigger this change on alveolar consonants. What is palatalization? - 60
Consonants in intervocalic position often undergo this historical change, examples include voicing and spirantization. What is weakening? - 80
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
The denotation of this is either 1 (true) or 0 (false). What is a sentence? - 20
Two words that have similar or nearly identical meanings. What are synonyms? - 40
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
The Conversational Maxim that refers to being truthful. What is the Maxim of Quality? - 80
The relationship between the following sentences: Mary lives in Korea. Mary lives in Asia. What is entailment? - 100
These are often found in a continuum. Ones closer together are mutually intelligible. What are dialects? - 20
What a pidgin develops into after a few generations. What is a creole? - 40
A bundle of these demarcates a major dialect boundary? What are isoglosses? - 60
the dialect which is perceived by speakers as dominant or superior What is a prestige dialect? - 80
the coalescence of distinct dialects into a single uniform speech form What is dialect levelling? - 100
The part of the world where the highly endangered language Chulym is spoken. What is Siberia? - 20
The place of articulation of [k], [ɡ], [x], [ɣ] and [ŋ]. What is velar? - 40
The third person plural accusative pronoun in English. What is them? - 60
The largest known historical grouping of related languages. What is a phylum? - 80
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
Two units of meaning whose distribution is not predictable What are morphemes? - 20
In Korean, consonants undergo this phenomenon in coda position. Thus, 덥다 and 덮다 sound identical. What is neutralization? - 40
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
The kind of morpheme found in the following words: receive, perceive, mechanic, conspire What is a bound root? - 80
The kind of conditioning in the selection of the nominative case allomorphs –가 and –이. What is phonological? - 100