Morphemes
Two or more free morphemes that are combined together
What is a compound?
Our mental dictionary; the mental place where words are stored
What is a lexicon?
One symbol is equivalent to one sound
What is an alphabet?
The study of sentence structure and the rules that guide their formation
What is syntax?
A unit that can stand alone and that has a connected form with some kind of meaning
What is a word?
A morpheme that can stand alone as a word
What is a free morpheme?
The study of the internal structure of words
What is morphology?
One symbol is equivalent to one syllable
What is a syllabary or syllabic system?
A complete utterances that express a proposition
What is a sentence?
The process of adding a suffix, prefix, infix, or circumfix to a word
What is affixation?
Blending two or more morphemes together - 'spork' is an example of this
What is a portmanteau?
Adjectives, determiners, verbs, and nouns
One symbol is equivalent to one word
What is a logographic system?
The quality of being well-formed in a language, determined by speaker's intuition
What is grammaticality?
The smallest linguistic unit that can have a meaning or grammatical function
What is a morpheme?
Adding the same root to the same root
What is reduplication?
Lexical retrieval is affected by these two things
What is context and lexical frequency?
Symbols come to represent sounds instead of original meaning in order to represent new words
What is the rebus principle?
Parts of a sentence that intuitively seem to form more of a cohesive unit
What is a constituent?
All writing systems include information on both pronunciation and meaning
What is the duality principle?
A morpheme that always attaches to other morphemes
Includes complex relationships and networks instead of a single entry for each word
What is the lexicon?
Cuneiform is our oldest example of this
What is full writing?
A grammatical English sentence is made of these two things
What is a noun phrase and a verb phrase?
Anything you can say
What is an utterance?