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What language can be traced as the origin of German, Italian and Sanskrit?
Proto-Indonesian
Indo-Proto European
Tongue of the Ancients
Proto-Indo European
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Vowels are the most ________ sounds.
restricted
sonorous
multi-faceted
inhibiting
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What is audiology?
branch of applied linguistics concerned with conversation
branch of applied linguistics concerned with music
branch of applied linguistics concerned with hearing
branch of applied linguistics concerned with vision
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What's a core word?
basic words in every language that are used in cognate sets
words that wouldn't be borrowed from other languages
a short word like "cat" or "ball"
a word related to the center of apples
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Who is Sophia?
the name of Alan Turing's robot and first love
Ms. Sager's mom
a robot built with the purpose of holding human conversation
an 18th century pioneer of language study
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What is a phoneme?
a one-syllable word
the same thing as a morpheme
a unit of sound
the basis for English grammar
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What is prescriptivism?
the general philosophy of lexicography
a philosophy against making new words
a view that linguists should control how language is used
the belief that language should be able to grow and change
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Which conlang has nearly 2 million speakers worldwide?
Boxlang
Romanid
Klingon
Esperanto
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What is the difference between monophthong and a diphthong?
"diphthongs" is harder to say
diphthongs are combined monophthongs
monophthongs are fricatives instead of alveolar
monophthongs have one letter
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Which of the following is unrelated to PIE?
Japanese
cake
Indo-Iranian
Sanskrit
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Which of the following is an Elvish dialect? (YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS THINK FAST)
Quenya
Sindarin
Telerin
Taliska
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How long ago was PIE spoken?
1000 BCE
since the dawn of man
6000 BCE
0
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What is Speech/Language Pathology?
investigation of sound in the human brain
identifying and curing speech and language related disorders
studying diseases that affect language-controlling areas
one of the highest paying careers in the world
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What are cognate sets?
words concerning the brain
words that share a common origin
borrowed words
words in the dictionary
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What is the purpose of the Turing Test?
a test for homosexuality
to test if someone is Alan Turing
testing methods of cryptography
to determine machine intelligence
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How many vowel sounds can be made with the human mouth?
24
17
14
28
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What is Forensic Linguistics?
running language-related trials
investigation of the written word of criminals
analysis of criminal handwriting
investigation of criminal dialects
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What is lexicography?
the study of new words
analysis of written speech patterns
the making of dictionaries
analysis of poetry
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What is Computational Linguistics concerned with?
Modeling language in a computational way
Making AI
Standardizing language using computers
Programming languages
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____ linguists determined rules for spelling, while ____ focused on grammar and parts of speech
Indian, Roman
Roman, Greek
Indian, Greek
Greek, Indian
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Who wrote the Voynich Manuscript?
Samuel Voynich
we have no idea
the Illuminati
Michael Cunetta
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What is "conlang" short for?
conflagrant lankiness
constructed language
conscripted language
conlangismology
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What are velar sounds?
sounds made with your lips and teeth
sounds made with the back roof of your mouth
sounds including "sh" and "th"
sounds made in the throat
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What is discourse analysis?
analyzing diss tracks
investigation of the human brain in relation to language
analysis of criminal interviews
examination of human conversation
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What is a voiced sound?
any oral sound
a sound made in the back of your throat
a vowel
A sound where you use your vocal chords
26
Which of these is NOT an example of a diphthong?
go
loiter
sheep
stay
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What is an example of an alveolar sound
oo
x
th
z
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What was the original purpose of Blissymbols?
to supplement a fictional world
to eliminate the ambiguity of language
to help children with cerebral palsy communicate
to create world peace
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30% of world's languages use how many vowel sounds?
3
5
14
28
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01100110 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100101
01110100 01110010 01110101 01100101
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Why did Proto-Indo European languages change?
a British king decided to outlaw PIE
people spread across the region and became isolated
two PIE speaking tribes got into a war
one exiled group had to create a new language
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What method is used to perform reconstruction?
Methodist method
scientific method
IPA method
comparative method
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What is a fricative?
A sound where airflow is partially restricted
a sound where there is no restriction on airflow
a sound that requires the teeth
A sound where airflow is fully restricted
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What is descriptivism?
a career that fuses science and linguistics
the view that symbols should be used instead of letters
the view that language is defined by how we use it
the view that language requires careful cultivation
