Phonetics and Phonology
This standardized system of symbols is used to represent the sounds of spoken language.
What is The International Phonetic Alphabet?
The smallest unit of meaning in a word, often carrying the core meaning and cannot be broken down further.
What is a ROOT MORPHEME?
A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things, or to name a particular one of these.
What is a NOUN?
A sentence with just one main clause.
What is a SIMPLE SENTENCE?
The type of sentence that acts as a question or request
What is an INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE?
The metalanguage term given to how loud a person speaks.
What is VOLUME?
A morpheme that cannot stand alone and must attach to a root or another morpheme to convey meaning.
What is a BOUND MORPHEME?
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.
What is a VERB?
A sentence with at least two main clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction.
What is a COMPOUND SENTENCE?
The type of sentence that acts as a command.
What is an IMPERATIVE SENTENCE?
The metalanguage term given to how quickly a person speaks
What is TEMPO?
A morpheme that modifies a word to express grammatical features such as tense, number, or case, without changing the word's core meaning.
What is an INFLECTIONAL MORPHEME?
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.
What is an ADVERB?
A sentence with one main clauses and at least two subordinate clauses.
What is a COMPLEX SENTENCE?
A sentence containing one or more dependent clauses and two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction or semicolon.
What is a COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE?
The metalanguage term given to the way in which a person's tone shifts high or low at the end of an utterance.
What is INTONATION?
A morpheme that, when added to a root, creates a new word with a changed meaning or part of speech.
What is a DERIVATIONAL MORPHEME?
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
What is a CONJUNCTION?
A part of a sentence that contains the person or thing performing the action (or verb) in a sentence
What is the SUBJECT of a sentence?
The name given to everything in a standard declarative sentence except the subject.
What is the PREDICATE?
The metalanguage terms given to the four CONNECTED SPEECH PROCESSES.
What is assimilation, vowel reduction, elision and insertion?
A root morpheme that may include additional morphemes but serves as the base to which inflectional morphemes attach.
What is a STEM MORPHEME?
A verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc.
What is an AUXILIARY VERB?
The type of sentence that provides information.
What is a DECLARATIVE SENTENCE?
The person or thing that directly receives the action or effect of the verb
What is the DIRECT OBJECT?