Syntax

Question 1

Language

Answer 1

Biologically endowed, innate, human specific

Question 2

Phonology/Phonetics

Answer 2

Sounds/Signs

Question 3

Morphology

Answer 3

Words and subwords

Question 4

Syntax

Answer 4

Sentences

Question 5

Semantics

Answer 5

Meaning

Question 6

Pragmatics

Answer 6

Conversational Context

Question 7

Sociolinguistics

Answer 7

How language intersects with culture/society

Question 8

Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics

Answer 8

Language and the brain

Question 9

Computational/Experimental Linguistics

Answer 9

Language processing and computational models

Question 10

Language acquisition

Answer 10

How languages are learnt

Question 11

Historical Linguistics

Answer 11

How language changed over time

Question 12

Differences between Language and Writing

Answer 12

• Not used everywhere
• has to be taught
• processed differently
• can be edited

Question 13

Descriptive Grammar

Answer 13

Description of speaker’s knowledge of units and rules of their grammar

Question 14

Prescriptive Grammar

Answer 14

Rules that are prescribed to a language that intend to determine how the speaker should use the language

Question 15

Gloss

Answer 15

Contain lexical/grammatical information

Notation that provides an explanation

Question 16

Morphemes

Answer 16

Smallest unit of linguistic meaning

Question 17

Word order

Answer 17

If something is Eg. Subject, Verb, Object, etc

Question 18

Homogeneity

Answer 18

the same

Question 19

Definite Article

Answer 19

The

Question 20

Indefinite Article

Answer 20

A

Question 21

Demonstrative Word

Answer 21

A ‘pointing’ word. Eg. This, that

Question 22

Paradigm

Answer 22

A grammar table

Question 23

Relative Clause

Answer 23

Who, what, when, where, why

Question 24

Modify

Answer 24

Changes meaning of sentence

Question 25

Preposition

Answer 25

In, on, under

Question 26

AdvP

Answer 26

Adverb preposition