Linguistics and the Linguistics Olympiad Dick Hudson, November 2015, UCS

1. What is linguistics?2. What is the UK Linguistics Olympiad?3. Phonetics: IPA problem (meet the IPA)4. Historical linguistics: Comparative Romance5. Phonology: Turkish6. Morphology: Polish7. Syntax: Old English8. Semantics: Yolmo

Resources This page: http://www.dickhudson.com/talks UK Linguistics Olympiad: http://www.uklo.org UKLO examples: http://www.uklo.org/example-questions

o very easy examples: http://www.uklo.org/breakthrough-workout List of BA Linguistics courses: http://www.lagb.org.uk/page-1828991 Stuff about linguistics: http://www.uklo.org/for-competitors

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Phonetics: English

Meet the IPA:

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Comparative-historical linguistics and the IPA: Romance languages

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Phonology: Turkish

Morphology: PolishNB The Polish and English examples are jumbled!

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Syntax: Old English

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Semantics: Yolmo

Question: How do you translate ‘with’ into Yolmo?

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