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Pragmatics probably refers to...
rules of social interaction
rules of using numbers in sentences
rules of how frat brothers talk, bruh
rules of plagiarism
2
Sentax probably refers to...
The rules of punctuation
The rules of text messaging
The rules of sentence structure
The rules of fiction
3
A famous character who has "unique" syntax:
Yoda
Harry Potter
Elsa
Darth Vader
4
According to linguistics, "language" can be broken down into 5 parts:
reading, writing, speaking, listening, acting
formal, informal, high, low, average
Infant, toddler, adolescent, adult, educated speech
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
5
Morphology probably refers to...
The rules of word structures (roots, prefixes, suffixes)
The rules of how words lose meaning over time
The rules of punctuation (periods, commas...)
The rules of the rules of the rules
6
Phonology probably refers to...
The rules of grammar
The rules of pronouns
The rules of speech sounds
The rules of conversations on the phone
7
What is linguistics?
The poetic and musical study of language
Speaking a foreign language while doing gymnastics
The scientific study of language
The informal use of language, such as slang
8
Applying phonology to English, we know there are how many TOTAL sounds (phonemes) in English?
26
106
44
4 million
9
Someone interested in semantics would be interested in WHICH language topic that we recently studied?
Chekhov's Gun
implication and innuendo
iambic rhythm
Hooks
10
Semantics probably refers to...
The rules about word/sentence meanings
The rules about word order
The rules about religious language
The rules about pirate language