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Phonology
Phonetics
Semantic relationships
Syntax
Morphology
100
The situation in which phones never occur in the same environment and the appearance of one can be predicted
What is complementary distribution?
100
What is the description of this sound? [d]
What is voiced alveolar stop?
100
smoking/nonsmoking
What is reverse?
100
The grammatical relation of a noun phrase when it appears immediately below the verb phrase
What is direct object?
100
Words that denote concepts such as objects, actions, attributes and ideas.
What are content words?
200
Nasalization is this type of phonological process.
What is assimilation?
200
How can these sounds be described? [ʒ, ð, z]
What are voiced fricatives?
200
hammer/tool
What is hyponymy?
200
The five types of phrasal categories.
What is NP, VP, AP, PP, and AdvP?
200
Words that specify grammatical relations and have little or no semantic content
What are function words?
300
A contrastive phonological segment.
What is a phoneme?
300
What do the sounds [i, e] have in common?
What is front tense unround vowels?
300
giver/receiver
What is relational opposite?
300
The central word of a phrase whose lexical category defines the type of phrase.
What is the head?
300
Morphemes that are never words by themselves but are always parts of words.
What are bound morphemes?
400
Two or more words that are identical except for one phoneme that occurs in the same position in each word (and affects the meaning of the word)
What is a minimal pair?
400
The manner of articulation for the sounds [dʒ, tʃ]
What is affricate?
400
awake/asleep
What is complementary?
400
The constituent in a phrase that completes the meaning of the phrase.
What is the complement?
400
Morphemes that may attach at the beginning, end, middle, or at both ends of a word.
What are affixes?
500
A group of sounds characterized by a phonetic property or feature that pertains to all members of the set
What is a natural class?
500
Of the following, this sound is not classified as a stop: [ʔ, k, m, x, ŋ]
What is x?
500
short/tall
What is gradable?
500
Words in this category can join a noun phrase to the left.
What is determiner?
500
A root morpheme combined with an affix forms this.
What is a stem?