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)