Home/Quiz Bank Linguistics/Linguistic Test 7 Quiz Bank Linguistics Linguistic Test 7 Ahmad JavedJanuary 19, 20220 102 Welcome to your Linguistic Test 7 In historical linguistics, a procedure for establishing the forms of words and grammatical morphemes in an unattested ancestral language by comparing the forms found in its several daughter languages Comparative reconstruction Contrastive reconstruction Parallel reconstruction Complementary reconstruction An exchange in the positions of two segments in a word, either as a historical change or as a synchronic rule Epenthesis Prosthesis Epithesis Metathesis The phenomenon in which two or more phonemes receive identical phonetic realizations in identical environments. Incomplete overlapping Partial overlapping Complete overlapping Compact overlapping Uninterrupted speech by a single individual Casual speech Connected speech Continuous speech Idiolect speech Phonemes involve an auditory explosion (‘puff of air’) where the air can be heard passing through the glottis after the release phase Voiced Unvoiced Aspirated Flap The degree to which speech is uninterrupted by pauses Regularity Progressive Turn taking Continuity A distinctive feature defined as 'exhibiting a concentration of energy in the upper frequencies of the spectrum', interpreted as representing a non-peripheral Stressed Flap Acute None of the above The visible projection of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx at the front of the throat, usually far more prominent in men than in women Windpipe Uvula Adam's apple Trachea Either of two or more phonemes which are in free variation in a particular word, such as /i: / and /ai/ in either or /i: / and /e/ in economics Monophone Diaphone Meta phone Allophone The appearance of a particular change in a particular language at a particular time Diachrony Actuation Philology Synchrony Time is Up! Time's up Ahmad JavedJanuary 19, 20220 102 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Reddit VKontakte WhatsApp Share via Email Print