Terminology I
Study of internal word structure & categories and processes for word production
Morphology
Type of phonetics that studies the production of sounds
Articulatory phonetics
This phoneme is a bilabial unvoiced stop
/p/
This type of morpheme does NOT depend on other morphemes for meaning
Free morpheme
Observational approach which determines linguistic rules based on how language is actually used
Descriptive linguistic analysis
Minimal discrete units that make up a language
Phonemes
Type of phonetics that studies the perception of sounds
Auditory phonetics
This phoneme is a labiodental voiced fricative
/v/
This type of morpheme creates new lexemes from existing ones, often with a change in meaning and word category
Derivational
Linguistic principle stating that there is no inherent relationship between form and meaning.
Arbitrariness
The rules that explain how words go together to make grammatical sentences in a language.
Syntax
Stress, tone, intonation are this type of speech sound.
Suprasegmentals
This phoneme is a voiced velar stop
/g/
This type of morpheme creates different grammatical forms of lexemes; does not typically change the category of the word
Inflectional
A contextually determined variant pronunciation of a phoneme
Allophone
The study of speech sounds as physical objects and knowledge of allowable speech sounds.
Phonetics
When the vocal chords are open, one produces this type of sound
Unvoiced
This phoneme is a voiced postalveolar affricate
tʃ
This type of affix creates a different grammatical forms of a lexeme, but does not typically change the category of the word
Inflectional affix
What people have when they know a language (much of their knowledge is intuitive)
Linguistic Competence
Allows patterns or processes to be applied repeatedly within a system
Recursion
Consonant sounds are produced by these three elements
State of the glottis (open or closed), place of articulation, manner of articulation
This phoneme is a voiced bilabial glide
/w/
The process of cumulatively adding affixes to create a more complex word
Concatenation
Morphemes that sound alike but carry clearly distinctive semantic or linguistic meaning
Homophenous morphemes