LING 200 Final Review Jeopardy

LING 200: Final Exam Review


Semantics

  • Key Topics:

    • ASL Language Acquisition

    • Neurolinguistics

    • Sociolinguistics

    • Language Contact/Change

Questions and Answers

  1. Question - 10: Which pair of adjectives are gradable antonyms?

    • Red/Blue

    • Smart/Dumb (Correct Answer)

    • True/False

    • Student/Teacher

  2. Question - 20: Which of the following has a sense, but no referent?

    • Superman (Correct Answer)

    • Your LING200 TA

    • The king of the world

    • Red Square

    • The oldest man alive

  3. Question - 30: What is a hyponym of the word dog?

    • Pet

    • Animal

    • Mammal

    • Chihuahua (Correct Answer)

    • All of the above

  4. Question - 40: What is the entailment relation between 1 & 2?

    • 1: At least one student passed the final

    • 2: Every student passed the final

    • 1 entails 2

    • 2 entails 1

    • Paraphrase

    • No entailment (Correct Answer)

  5. Question - 50: How many senses and referents does the following phrase have?: LING200 TA

    • 1 sense

    • Lots of referents (all TAs for AU2020, WI2021, SP2021, AU2021, etc) (Correct Answer)


ASL (American Sign Language)

Questions and Answers

  1. Question - 10: Which of the following is NOT a feature of ASL signs?

    • Movement

    • Speed (Correct Answer)

    • Palm Orientation

    • Location

    • Handshape

  2. Question - 20: The ASL sign for COFFIN is comprised of the sign for DEAD followed by the sign for BOX. Which morphological process is this an example of?

    • Reduplication

    • Blend

    • Compounding (Correct Answer)

    • Acronym

  3. Question - 30: How do deaf babies differ from hearing babies when acquiring language?

    • Deaf babies learn ASL faster than hearing babies because it's iconic

    • Deaf babies will babble with their hands instead of with their mouths (Correct Answer)

  4. Question - 40: What feature differs in this minimal pair? "RED" "SWEET"

    • Handshape (Correct Answer)

  5. Question - 50: Which statement is TRUE about ASL?

    • ASL has its own grammar and rules that make it distinct from English (Correct Answer)


Language Acquisition/Neurolinguistics

Questions and Answers

  1. Question - 10: True or false? Babies learn language at more or less the same speed universally.

    • True (Correct Answer)

  2. Question - 20: What stage of language acquisition is outlined by the phrase: "Umibu mamabubu ga bemu"?

    • Vocal Play

    • Canonical Babbling

    • Two Word Phase

    • Variegated Babbling

    • CV monosyllable Babbling (Correct Answer)

  3. Question - 30: What does the remark "Chewy!" when pointing to a dog represent?

    • Overgeneralization

    • Telegraphic Speech

    • Overextension (Correct Answer)

    • Underextension

  4. Question - 40: Which theory does incorrect phrases despite correction seem to disprove?

    • Reinforcement Theory (Correct Answer)

  5. Question - 50: The error in the statement "learn the tights on" is an example of?

    • Anticipation

    • Metathesis (Correct Answer)


Sociolinguistics

Questions and Answers

  1. Question - 10: Which variable does not contribute to language variation?

    • Speed (Correct Answer)

  2. Question - 20: What determines which dialect is the standard?

    • It is usually the dialect of those in power (Correct Answer)

  3. Question - 30: Words such as mise-en-place, sauté, and sous-vide are examples of?

    • Jargon (Correct Answer)

  4. Question - 40: The sentence "I might could go to the store." is an example of?

    • Syntactic Variation (Correct Answer)

  5. Question - 50: Why do students speak differently to friends than to professors?

    • Speech Style/Registers (Correct Answer)


Language Contact/Change

Questions and Answers

  1. Question - 10: In an adstratal relationship, which is likely to occur?

    • Language Shift (Correct Answer)

  2. Question - 20: The word "brainwash" as a loanword from Chinese is an example of?

    • Calque (Correct Answer)

  3. Question - 30: What word is unlikely to be borrowed from a remote language first encountering English?

    • Independence (Correct Answer)

  4. Question - 40: The changing meaning of "meat" signifies what kind of language change?

    • Reduction (Correct Answer)

  5. Question - 50: Which is NOT a feature of Pidgins?

    • They are used as a first language by some speakers (Correct Answer)

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