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14 Cards in this Set
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phoneme
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smallest unit of speech sound, 40 in each language about, language specific
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morpheme
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smallest unit that signals meaning, prefixes, suffixes, roots, can be entire words, 50,000 + in each language
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word
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combinations of one or more morpheme, adult know several hundred thousand
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phrase
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organized groupings of words. Building blocks of sentences
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sentence
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group of phrases conveying meaning
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surface structure
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the phrase structure that applies to the order in which the words were actually spoken
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deep structure
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the fundamental underlying phrase structure that conveys the meaning
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phrase structure
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each word is assigned a role, rules specify in what oder the conbinations these roles can occur. same phrase structure can have two different meanings. and two different phrases can have one meaning, in passive vs active voice
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paraphrase
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two surface structures have a deep structure that conveys the same meaning
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ambiguity
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same wording can have more than one meaning
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Lexical ambiguity
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word has multiple meanings
meaning of the word is confused problems for computerized translations |
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Syntactical ambiguity
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structure is confusing
same words can be grouped together into more than one phrase structure not words but grammar that matters here |
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Referential ambiguity
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same word/phrase can refer to two different things within a sentece. (it, she, one)
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Lexical access/lexicon
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you see the word bug in a sentence, is it the insect, spy, or computer virus.
only after you retrieve all possible meanings of the word from the lexicon does the context help context guides access to the lexicon, so you only retrieve the correct meaning for the word lexicon = mental dictionary |
