Systemic functional
what is systemic funtional linguistic (SFL)?
It is an approach to language that studies how people use language to create meaning in social contexts
What is the main purpose of language according to functionalism?
To communicate
Give an example of "cluster simplification"
next → /nɛks/ → /nɛs/ (in casual speech)
what is the chemical formule for water?
H2O
how many letters are there in english alphabet?
26 letters
who developed SFL?
Michel Halliday
What are the two levels of double articulation called?
The first articulation consists of monemes, and the second of phonemes.
What does Phonotactics study?
The set of rules in a language that determine which consonants clusters are allowed in syllables or words
who wrote the Odyssey?
Omero
what is an allophone?
A phonetic variant of a phoneme that does not change word meaning in a given language.
give the 3 principals example of SFL
Ideational, interpersonal, textual
Why can the position of a word change its role in a sentence?
Because its position can help show how it relates to the other words in the sentence
What does the Optimality theory means when it refers to constrains?
Rules that either encourage or prohibit certain linguistic patterns
who is the smallest prime number?
2
what is the difference between a language and an accent?
A language is a system of communication; an accent refers mainly to pronunciation patterns.
"The dog chased the cat" are an example of...
Ideational
What is the difference between syntactic functions and semantic roles?
Syntactic functions describe the grammatical role of a unit, while semantic roles describe its role in the meaning of an event.
Who introduced this theory?
Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky
what is the largest desert in the world?
Antarctica
in the word "unhappiness", how many morphemes are there?
Three: un- + happy + -ness
what is the difference between "systemic" and "funtional" in SFL
“Systemic” refers to the choices available in language, while “Functional” refers to how language is used to make meaning.
What are the six components of linguistic analysis associated with Martinet's approach, and what does each study?
Phonology, monematics, synthematics, syntax, morphology and axiology
In what area of linguistics it started?
Phonology
what comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousan years?
the letter m
what is a minimal pair?
Two words that differ in only one sound in the same position and have different meanings, such as 'bat' and 'pat'.