Syntax
The part of mental grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of sentences and their structures
What is syntax
A ______ is the smallest unit of meaning in a word
What is a morpheme
The study of the meaning of words and their syntactical structure
What is semantics
The number of phonemes in the English language
44
The English language uses ______ word order in sentence structure that impacts the meaning
What is fixed
A sentence with one subject and one predicate
What is a simple sentence or an independent clause
The name of a bound morpheme that is always a suffix and does not change the word's grammar class?
What is an inflectional morpheme
The actual concrete item to which a word refers
What is a referential
The study of how the vocal tract produces the sounds of language
What is articulatory phonetics
Reference to a language other than a native language learned later in life
What is L2
Has a subject and predicate but cannot stand alone as a simple sentence. It depends on an independent clause to make it complete.
What is a dependent clause
A word form that other morphemes can attach to
What is a base
Words that have similar meanings, that share semantic properties
What are synonyms
The airstream mechanism sounds of the English language
What is pulmonic egressive
The period during which you are learning a language and have some degree of competence in producing and understanding, but your grammar is still quite different from that of an L1 user.
What is interlanguage
A sentence that has two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
What is a compound complex sentence
The part of the word that makes up the core meaning and determines the grammatical function of the compound.
What is a head
The elements of meaning that make up the mental image of the word or phrase in the mind of the speaker
What are semantic properties
Consonant sounds are classified by three pieces of information
manner, place, and voicing
Ingressive sounds produced by the sucking action of the tongue. Used exclusively in southern African languages.
Units being combined to create larger syntactical constructions
What are constituents
The term for morphemes that have a consistent meaning but appear in different forms depending on the environment where they occur.
What is Allomorphy
The state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common in terms of word or phrase meaning
What is markedness
This kind of vowel only occurs in closed syllables (those that end in a consonant sound) but not in open syllables (those that end in a vowel sound)
What is a lax vowel
The rhythmic pattern of sounds that babies often rely on to understand
What is prosody