Phonetics and Phonology
The study of the speech sounds of a particular language.
What is phonology?
Something that is added to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives, and interjections are types of this.
What are 'word classes'?
The study of the way words are arranged in a sentence.
What is syntax?
The text longer than a sentence.
What is a discourse?
The agreed understanding we attach to signs in our communication.
What is 'meaning'?
The stage where a baby makes sounds like mama, dada and bahdama
What is babbling?
The study of speech sounds.
What is phonetics?
What is a suffix?
She, he, they, me, I, it are examples of this word class.
What is a pronoun?
A type of question that asks a question.
What is interrogative sentence?
A whisper, cough or laugh are examples of this.
What are vocal effects?
Graphic symbols, letters, sounds are examples of this.
What is a 'sign'?
The stage before a baby makes recognisable language sounds
What is pre-linguistic?
Where words or phrases are smooshed together to make them easier to say.
What is connected speech?
The study of the parts of words.
Adds information to a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
What is an adverb?
Hey, you need to shut up!
Is an example of...
What is exclamative sentence?
Gestures, facial expressions, body language, are examples of this.
What is non-verbal communication?
A group of words that belong together because they share a similar semantic meaning. Like banana, apple, peach, cherry.
What is semantic domain?
The stage when children can make an entire idea out of one word or a phrase.
What is one-word utterance?
When a sound is left out of speech.
What is elision?
A morpheme that stands on its own as a word is called this.
What is a free morpheme?
Whilst, because, therefor, however, are examples of this type of conjunction.
What is a subordinating conjunction?
This sentence structure contains one main clause.
What is a simple sentence?
Vocal effects, non-verbal communication are examples of this.
What are para-linguistic features?
When a child says dog, but they mean every animal with fur is an example of this.
What is Semantic over-generalisation?
Daddy goed work. Dog bark loud. Are examples of this stage.
What is telegraphic?
When a vowel sound is left out and often replaced by a 'a' sound.
What is vowel reduction?
A morpheme that is added that changes the tense of word, adds a plural, or changes the word class is called this.
What is a bound morpheme?
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so are examples of this type of specific word class.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
A sentence that has one main clause and a subordinate clause and two noun phrases has this sentence structure.
What is a complex sentence?
The stage where a child starts putting words together, like: daddy gone, spot eat, me hungry
What is two-word utterance?
A morpheme that changes the tense, how many there are or shows possession is called this.
What is an inflectional morpheme?
Children learn these types of words first. They include nouns, verbs, some pronouns, adjectives, and some prepositions.
What are content words?
A sentence with two main clauses and a coordinating conjunction is called this.
What is a compound sentence?
A child makes sense and starts adding in the majority of function words at this stage.
What is multi-word stage?
A morpheme that changes the meaning of a word and often changes the word class is called this.
What is a derivational morpheme?
Children learn these types of words after content words. They include auxiliary verbs, modal verbs, determiners, irregular verbs, and conjunctions.
What are function words?