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20 Cards in this Set
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Phonetics...
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Is the basis for phonological analysis.
Analyzes the production of all human speech sounds, regardless of language. |
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Phonology …
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Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages.
Analyzes the sound patterns of a particular language by *determining which phonetic sounds are significant, and *explaining how these sounds are interpreted by the native speaker. |
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Phone...
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A phone is an unanalyzed sound of a language. It is the smallest identifiable unit found in a stream of speech that is able to be transcribed with an IPA symbol.
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Phoneme...
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is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.
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Morpheme...
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A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language.
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Allophone...
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An allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language.
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Morphology...
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the study of morphemes, or the internal structures of words and how they can be modified.
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Syntax...
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the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences.
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Semantics...
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a. the study of meaning.
b. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form. |
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Pragmatics...
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the analysis of language in terms of the situational context within which utterances are made, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relation between speaker and listener.
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Bound Morpheme...
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is a morpheme that only appears as part of a larger word
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Free or Unbound Morpheme...
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is a morpheme that can stand alone
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Affix...
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is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word.
is always bound. |
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Prefix...
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is an affix which is placed before the root of a word.
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Root Word...
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is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (root is then called base word), which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.
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Verbs...
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The basic construction of a verb consists of
1.Prepronominal Prefixes 2.Pronominal Prefixes 3.The Verb Base 4.Aspect Suffixes in that order. All verbs contain at least a pronominal prefix and a verb base. |
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Prepronominal prefixes...
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These are the very first prefixes in a verb. Prepronominal prefixes can indicate
*tense *direction *location In addition, these can mark such distinctions as dualic, contrastive, partitive, and iterative. According to Marianne Mithun Williams, it is possible to find some semantic similarities from the functions of prepronominal prefixes, but not such that each morpheme is completely explained in this way. |
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Pronominal Prefix...
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As it sounds, pronominal prefixes identify pronouns with regards to the verb, including person, number, and gender. Since all verbs must have at least a subject, the pronominal prefixes identify the subject, and if the verb is transitive, these prefixes also identify the object
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Noun...
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Nouns, like verbs, are composed of several parts. These are, in this order:
1.the pronominal prefix 2.the noun stem 3.the nominal suffix Nouns can be divided two ways, formally and functionally, and four ways, into formal nouns, other functional nouns, possessive constructions, and attributive suffixes. |
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Resonants...
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A rule specifies pre-aspiration under certain circumstances. The resonants can also become voiceless fricatives.
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