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19 Cards in this Set
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Palatalization
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sounds (esp. alveolar, velar) become palatal or postalveolar
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Spirantization
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Stops become fricatives
(Grimm's Law) |
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Insertion
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A sound is added.
(Epenthesis) |
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Deletion
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A sound is Lost
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Metathesis
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Order of two sounds is swapped
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Assimilation in Place
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sounds take on place of articulation of adjacent sounds
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Assimilation in Manner
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sounds take on manner of articulation of adjacent sounds
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Assimilation in Voicing/Nasality
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sounds take on voicing/nasality of adjacent sounds
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Semantic Relations
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PATIENT
AGENT INSTRUMENT GOAL RECIPIENT FORCE EXPERIENCER |
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Lexical Categories
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V Adj D Aux P Adv |
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Phrasal Categories
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VP DP IP PP |
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Great Vowel Shift
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high vowels become diphthongs
others increase in tongue height |
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Clitic
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A bound morpheme that functions at the level of clauses or phrases but doesn't attach to any category of words.
a, the, 's |
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Suppletion
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When two forms of one word are completely different phonologically
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Constituency
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The way words "clump" together to form units of a sentence
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Isolating Language
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one morpheme per wod
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Synthetic/Polysynthetic Language
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multiple, or many morphemes per word
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Agglutinative Language
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one meaning per morpheme
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Fusional Language
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multiple meanings per morpheme
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