Intro
A key feature of language that describes the relationship between most FORM-MEANING pairs
What is the feature of arbitrariness?
A type of morpheme that cannot stand on its own as a word.
What is a bound morpheme?
The word we use to describe a string of words that "go together"
What is a constituent?
The feature that tells us whether the vocal folds are vibrating or not
What is [+/- voice]?
The obligatory part of a syllable
What is a nucleus?
A key feature of language focusing on the fact that an utterance is composed of smaller parts
What is the feature of discreteness?
The type of morpheme that goes around (an)other morpheme(s)
What is a circumfix?
The type of phrase that the top node/root node of a tree is.
What is a Tense Phrase (TP)?
Voiceless labiodental fricative
What is /f/?
The type of phonological process wherein two phones switch places
What is metathesis?
A term that refers to our (unconscious) knowledge of sounds, words, linguistic structures, linguistic, meanings, etc.
What is linguistic competence?
The term we use for different realizations of a morpheme depending on context
What is an allormorph?
The notion that syntactic elements can infinitely repeat within each other
What is recursion?
The manner and place of articulation for /j/
What is palatal approximant/glide?
The type of phonological process wherein two phones Pronouncing "hamster" as [hæmpstəɹ] is an example of these two phonological processes.
What are insertion and place assimilation?
An approach to language that evaluates language use against certain views of what it means to speak properly
What is prescriptivism?
The type of morphological process where words are built by attaching affixes to a root
What is concatenation?
The element in a tree which is both a child of and a sibling to a X'-level
What is an adjunct?
Sounds that involve air resonating in either the oral or nasal cavity all share this feature
What is [+ sonorant]?
Allophones are found in this type of distribution.
What is complementary distribution?
The theory positing that sentences are generated by an unconscious set of procedures (rules), which allow us to generate utterances that have never been spoken before
What is Generative Grammar?
The type of word-building process where you "cut off" part of an existing word
What is clipping?
The element in a tree that is always a phrase and which is a sibling to the head and a child to the X'-level
What is a complement?
The rule describing when flapping ([ɾ] instead of /d/ or /t/) occurs in English
What is '/t/ and /d/ are pronounced as [ɾ] when they occur between vowels, and the vowel before them is stressed'?