characteristics
The characteristic of language that allows speakers to say things that have never been said before.
What is productivity?
The fact that words and sometimes parts of words have distinct meaning.
What is semanticity?
A single, individual sound.
What is a phoneme?
When a sound changes to become more like a neighboring sound (for example, saying /z/ instead of /s/ to make "dog" plural).
What is phonetic assimilation?
Optional consonant(s) at the beginning of a syllable.
What is an "onset"?
The characteristic of language that allows it to be broken up into smaller parts
What is discreteness?
What is universal grammar?
Different versions of the same sound.
When you add an extra sound to a word, for example, saying "hampster" instead of hamster.
What is phonetic insertion?
The vowel that is the most important part of a syllable.
What is the nucleus?
The fact that the relationship between a word and its referent is essentially random.
What is arbitrariness?
What is prescriptive grammar?
A description of a phoneme based on where it is formed.
What is "place of articulation"?
When you lose a sound from a word such as when you say "sanwich" instead of sandwich.
What is phonetic deletion?
What is the coda?
The characteristic of language that allows speakers to talk about things that are not present in space or time.
What is displacement?
The linguist who developed the idea of universal grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
A description of a phoneme based on how it is formed.
What is "manner of articulation"?
An example is pronouncing "strength" like "strengkth."
What is phonetic insertion?
The number of syllables in the word "advertisement."
What is four?
The characteristic of language that allows speakers to put the parts of language back together in many different ways.
What is duality of patterning?
Rules that people actually follow when they use a language.
What is descriptive grammar?
What is "voicing?"
An example is pronouncing "cavalry" like "calvary."
What is phonetic metathesis?
The number of syllables in the word hypercholesterolemia.