Phonetics Correct Answer: The Study of Human Speech Sounds. The articulation and perception of speech and sounds.
Pragmatics Correct Answer: The
... [Show More] study of the use of language in context. How listeners arrive at intended meaning of speakers
phonemes Correct Answer:
phonology Correct Answer: the study of organizing sound systems. With this, we can know what sounds can combine together to form words, what sounds can occur at the beginning or at the end of the word, and how they should be pronounced. (PATTERNING OF SPEECH AND SOUNDS)
allophone Correct Answer: one of a set of multiple spoken sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme.
morphology Correct Answer: the study of the structure of words and how they are formed.
morpheme Correct Answer: smallest units of words that have a meaning and cannot be subdivided any further.
Two types: Free; can stand alone; (nouns, verbs, adjectives)
Bound: affix, suffix
-undateable
morph Correct Answer: the phonetic realization of a morpheme
free morpheme Correct Answer: a grammatical unit that can occur by itself. However, other morphemes such as affixes can be attached to it.
bound morpheme Correct Answer: a grammatical unit that never occurs by itself, but is always attached to some other morpheme
affix Correct Answer: a bound morpheme that is joined before, after, or within a root or stem
allomorph Correct Answer: one of two or more complementary morphs which manifest a morpheme
syntax Correct Answer: the study of sentence structure. Knowing the rules of sentence formation in a language.
semantics Correct Answer: the study of meaning in language. The analysis of the meaning and interpretations of words, phrases, sentences. The ways in which sounds and meanings are related.
umlaut Correct Answer:
Semantic slanting Correct Answer: the way of making statements so they can evoke a specific emotional response.
ex. saying preemptive counterattack instead of invasion. because "invasion" produces more negative feeling.
inflection process Correct Answer: the process by which affixes combine with roots with the aim of indicating basic grammatical categories, for instance, tense, plurality (dog-s, call-ed: 's' indicates plurality while 'ed' indicates the tense of the verb and are inflectional suffixes).
derivational morphemes Correct Answer: change the part of speech or the basic meaning of the word (-ment added to 'judgement')
Speech Act Theory Correct Answer: When we speak, our words do not have meaning in and of themselves. They are very much affected by the situation, the speaker and the listener. Thus words alone do not have a simple fixed meaning.
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