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13 Cards in this Set
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the system by which we communicate and express ourselves |
Language |
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Phonetics |
study of speech sounds, how we describe and transcribe sounds and how the speech mech produces them |
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Phonology |
deals with patterns that individual language group together, more theoretical than phonetics |
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Morphology |
how we build words |
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Syntax |
order; how words are groupedSemanticsmessage, meaning; very closely related to pragmatics |
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Minimal Pairs |
a pair of words that differ by a single phoneme |
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Consonant |
a human speech sound produced by a partial or total obstruction of air at a particular point in the vocal tract |
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Vowel |
a human speech sound produced without obstruction at a particular point in the vocal tract. All vowels are voiced |
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Free Morpheme |
stands alone as a wordex: cat, Wisconsin**includes roots such as -fer (confer, prefer...) |
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Bound Morpheme |
must attach to a free morpheme or a stem |
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Aspect |
a feature that indicates the duration or other quality of the action described (add 1 or more auxiliary verbs to a main verb)(perfect, progressive, future) |
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Derivational affix |
add or change the meaning of the word when they are attached**often change the word class (open-class morphemes) |
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Inflectional affix |
an affix that does not change a word's meaning but adds grammatical info about its syntactic function (closed-class morphemes) |
