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25 Cards in this Set
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Lexicon |
Mental dictionary or collection of word knowledge that a speaker has in his mind |
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Content words |
Concepts Objects, actions, ideas Open class stand alone meaning Eg purple fish blue |
Stand alone |
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Function words |
Grammatical words Closed class Minimal stand alone meaning Eg and it the that |
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Morpheme |
Smallest grammatical unit of a language Eg 1:boy 2:boy-ish 3:boy-ish-ness |
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Homophones |
Words that share the same pronounciation |
Eye, 'I' |
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Homonyms |
Words that share pronounciation and spelling |
'Bat', 'bat' |
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Synonym |
Word that share same meaning |
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Bound morphemes |
Do not constitute words by themselves |
Houses |
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Free morphemes |
Constitute words by themselves |
House |
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Reduplication |
Word is inflected by repeated part or all Eg Samoan savali savavali |
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Prefix |
Affixes occuring before other morphemes |
Pre - judge |
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Suffix |
Affixes occuring after other morphemes |
Judge- ment |
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Infix |
Bound morpheme Inserted into other morphemes |
Abso- *******- lutely |
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Circumfix |
Both prefix and suffix attached to morphemes |
Pre- judge- ment |
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Roots |
Core morpheme of a word |
Paint -er |
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Stems |
Roots with an affix |
Believe- able |
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Base |
Any root or stem where an agfix ia attached |
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Derivational morphology |
When added to the base a new word with new meaning is formed |
Pure + ify >> purify |
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Inflectional morphology |
Morphemes with strict grammar functions they never alter grammatical category of the base Eg sail sail s sail ed |
In English there are only 8!!! |
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Tree diagrams |
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Tree structure determined by rules |
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Affixation |
Process of combining a base and an affix to produce a new word/ stem |
Un + verb >> verb verb + able>> adjective |
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Rule productivity |
If a rule is fully productive then it can apply in all circumstances Morphological rules have varying levels of productivity |
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Back formations |
Analogical process in which words are formed that appear to be compositional parts of other words |
Peddler>>>peddle swindler>>>swindle enthusiasm>>>enthuse |
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Compounding |
The process of making a compound word (Word formed by two or more words put together) |
Bittersweet spoonfeed sleepwalk |
