Across
- 1. The actual language use by an individual, according to Saussure.
- 2. What feature do the following sounds have in common? [m, n, ŋ]
- 5. Semivowels can never form the __________ of a syllable.
- 6. A morpheme which is placed before the root.
- 8. The linguistic approach proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure.
- 11. Different realisations of the same phoneme.
- 12. It the word Tuesday is pronounced as Chooseday, we speak of Yod-___________ .
- 14. The period in the history of English which lasted beween 1150 and ca. 1500 is referred to as ___________ English.
- 15. Academic English and Business English are its __________ varieties.
- 17. The insertion of [r] in "law and order" is called ____________ "r".
- 19. The word "smog" is formed through this process.
- 20. [ʊ, uː, ɒ, ɔː] are all __________ vowels.
- 21. Due to the realisation of the post-vocalic “r”, GA is called a ___________ accent.
- 22. The letter "R" in RP stands for __________ .
- 25. Any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages is referred to as lingua _______ .
- 26. {-hood} in the word "childhood" is a __________ morpheme.
- 27. The [r] in the British pronunciation of "my sister in London" is called ___________-r.
- 28. The place of articulation of [j].
- 30. The assertion that language grammar is unlearnable given the relatively limited data available to children is called the _____ of the stimulus.
Down
- 1. The study of actual speech.
- 3. The {-s} in "toys" and the {-ed} in "worked" are ________ morphemes.
- 4. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and, in more recent research, prepositions are all _______ categories.
- 7. A type of grammar that focuses on the correctness of language use.
- 9. "choke" and "joke" are a ______ pair.
- 10. The branch of linguistics concerned with the internal structure of words and the processes of word-formation.
- 13. The entire unconscious mental knowledge of an ideal language speaker, according to Noam Chomsky, is called ___________ .
- 16. There is no direct connection between the form of the linguistic sign and its meaning. That means the linguistic sign is _______ .
- 18. Scottish English and South African English are its ________ varieties.
- 23. What do the vowels [ɜː, ə, ʌ] have in common? They are all ___________.
- 24. When we produce voiced sounds, our vocals folds _________.
- 29. An abbreviation which is pronounced like a word.
