Who Wants to Be a Linguist? FINAL

Chapters

1. 00:00Who Wants to Be a Linguist?
2. 01:431. The voiceless dental fricative /θ/ is a phoneme in which language?
3. 01:52A. English B. Spanish C. Both D. Neither
4. 02:20C. Both
5. 02:292. An English speaker learning Spanish might mistakenly hear ‘pato’ (duck)
6. 02:38as the following due to a lack of aspiration in the first phoneme:
7. 02:51A.Vato B.Dato C.Bato D.Wato
8. 03:52C. Bato
9. 04:003. The words ‘mismo’ (same) & ‘dads’ display what similar process of assimilation?
10. 04:23A. Devoicing B. Nasal Plosion C. Exploding Hats D. Voicing
11. 05:14D. Voicing
12. 05:194. Due to the lack of a voiceless postalveolar fricative in Mexican Spanish, a Spanish speaker from
13. 05:29Mexico learning English might pronounce the words ‘shoe’ /ʃuː/ and ‘sheep’ /ʃip/ as:
14. 05:34A. Jew & Jeep B. Sue & Seep C. Shoe & Sheep D. Chew & Cheap
15. 06:17D. Chew & Cheap
16. 06:245. What causes the words ‘symphony’ (English) and ‘confiar’ (Spanish) to assimilate
17. 06:30their nasal phonemes into becoming voiced labiodental nasals /ɱ/?
18. 06:35A. They are preceded by vowels
19. 06:39B. There is a labio-dental fricative /f/ following each nasal phoneme
20. 06:46C. Because science
21. 06:49D. This is a trick question, those nasals don’t actually assimilate
22. 07:04B. There is a labio-dental fricative /f/ following each nasal phoneme
23. 07:196. Due to Spanish having a smaller vowel system compared to English, Spanish speakers might have
24. 07:26have difficulty hearing the difference between which pair of words?
25. 07:29A. Bit /bɪt/ & Beat /bit/ B. Beat /bit/ & Bait /beɪt/
26. 07:33C. Boat /boʊt/ & Bat /bæt/ D. Boat /boʊt/ & Beat /bit/
27. 08:26A. Bit /bɪt/ & Beat /bit/
28. 08:337. The voiced dental fricative /ð/ in English and voiced dental approximate /ð̞/ in Spanish sadly
29. 08:40don’t have their own unique graphemes to represent them in either language.
30. 08:48How do English and Spanish visually represent these sounds, respectively?
31. 08:54A. th & th B. d & d C. d & th D. th & d
32. 09:47D. th & d
33. 09:528. This grapheme: /v/ represents the following phonemes:
34. 09:59A. Voiced labio-dental fricative in English & voiced bilabial approximant in Spanish
35. 10:04B. Voiced labio-dental fricative in Spanish & voiced bilabial approximant in English
36. 10:11C. Voiced bilabial approximant in both English and Spanish
37. 10:16D. Voiceless labio-dental fricative in both English and Spanish
38. 11:00A. Voiced labio-dental fricative in English & voiced bilabial approximant in Spanish
39. 11:069. Which statement is correct?
40. 11:09A. Both English & Spanish are stress timed languages
41. 11:13B. Both English & Spanish are syllable timed languages
42. 11:18C. English is stress timed & Spanish is syllable timed
43. 11:22D. Spanish is stress timed & English is syllable timed
44. 11:35Audience says: A. Both English & Spanish are stress timed languages
45. 11:59C. English is stress timed & Spanish is syllable timed
46. 12:1210. Which language has the tendency to pronounce unstressed vowels as a schwa /ə/?
47. 12:19A. Both Spanish & English B. Neither Spanish nor English C. Spanish D. English
48. 12:29D. English
49. 12:3511. Which language uses a rising tone at the end of an utterance to signify a question:
50. 12:41A. Both Spanish & English B. Neither Spanish nor English C. Spanish D. English
51. 12:52A. Both Spanish & English
52. 13:0312. A Spanish speaker learning English might pronounce the word ‘street’ /stɹit/ as the following,
53. 13:09due to difficulty with the consonant cluster in the word’s onset:
54. 13:13A. Treat B. Estreet /ɛstrit/ C. Street D. Sweet
55. 14:15B. Estreet /ɛstrit/
56. 14:23WINNER!!!