Ch 1-4
An affix that changes the meaning or part-of-speech of a root
What is a derivational affix?
The term describing expressions within a sentence that form a cohesive unit (kind of like the sentential analogue of something like the phoneme or the morpheme)
What is a constituent?
The field of semantics that deals with the meanings of individual words
Lexical semantics
In the world of pragmatics, this is the equivalent of 'grammaticality' and means that an utterance is appropriate for a given pragmatic context
Felicity/felicitousness
This term describes two languages or dialects that can be understood by two separate speakers of each variety without either speaker having formal training in the other
What is mutual intelligibility?
The articulatory description of /l/
What is the voiced alveolar lateral liquid approximant?
The term describing a word or phrase that is required to maintain syntactic grammaticality
What is an argument?
What is the semantic relationship between the words 'football' and 'sport'?
Football is a hyponym of sport/
Sport is a hypernym of football
The type of pragmatic context that involves awareness of the relationships between the different speakers involved
What is the social context?
What is lexical variation?
The natural class of English vowels comprised of these sounds [æ, ɑ]
What are low vowels?
What is a noun phrase?
The type of antonymy that best describes the relationship between early/late
What is scalable/gradable antonymy?
You ask someone where they are from, and they respond with the following:
"Not here"
They have violated this Gricean maxim
What is quantity?
The term identifying the boundary between two regional dialect features
What is an isogloss?
The phonological process involved in the rendering of 'opossum' [əpɑsəm] as 'possum' [pɑsəm]
What is (unstressed syllable) deletion?
A word or phrase that can be used as a substitute for a string of words you think might be a constituent
What is a pro-form/pro-word?
The relationship between these two propositions
a.) Raspberries grow in this garden
b.) All types of berries grow in this garden
Entailment; b) entails a)
A speaker addresses you and says "Let me ask you what you had for dinner"
What is the type of speech act and the sentence type of this utterance?
Question, imperative
A speaker who makes use of a stigmatized language variety with friends and family is leveraging this type of prestige
What is covert prestige?
The morphological typology describing a language that uses little to no affixes and generally has separate morphemes to indicate things like number, person, case, tense, etc
What is an analytic language?
If you have a string of words (X) and the rest of the sentence (Y), and you render them in the form of "It was (X) that (Y)" in order to test for constituency, you are using this type of constituency test
What is clefting?
The relationship between these two propositions
a.) She speaks French
b.) She was born in France
No relationship--they could be related, but neither necessarily entails the other, and neither necessarily rules the other out
What is the implicature of your utterance, and which Gricean maxim have you flouted?
You are unable to go; maxim of relation/relevance
Habitual 'be', as in the sentence "He be walkin' to school everyday' is a characteristic morphosyntactic feature of this variety of English
What is African American English?