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Tip-of-the-tounge
A phenomenon that suggests that finding a word in our mental lexicon is not an all or nothing thing.
We build words out of parts.
What are the positions that a vowel can be in?
Fronted, Backed, Central
High, Mid, Low, and combination of High + mid, Low + mid
Which Vowel types can occur at the end of a word with no following consonant?
Long vowels and Diphthongs
weak vowels (coffee, drama) - but only in unstressed syllables
Weak vowels can only occur in?
Unstressed syllables
What are the three properties of consonants?
Voicing
Place of articulation
Manner of articulation
What is phonetics?
The characteristics of speech sounds
What is the difference between articulatory phonetics and auditory phonetics?
The brains perception of speech sounds
What is phonology?
The study of more abstracts (mental) sound patterns
phonotactics
Patterning restrictions at syllable level
Lexeme
Morphologically related forms of the same head-word in the dictionary
Lemma
A specific form of a lexeme
Lexical unit?
Fixed- and semi expression, word/lemma that does not correspond to one meaning
Lexical/open/content words
Nouns, verbs adjectives, adverbs
Grammatical/closed class/function words
articles, conjunctions and prepositions
Can a word gain meaning by the words it collocates with?
Yes it can
Which speech error are substitutions and blends a part of ?
Mis-selections
How are they (blends and substitutions ) predictable?
The errors are often closely linked to the target word.
Substitutions - Antonyms
Blends - Synonyms
In word association, what type of words are more prevalent?
antonyms
What is logical form?
The abstract underlying mental representation of a state-of-affairs
In a process of giving, someone gives someone something
What are the two types of bound morphemes?
Inflectional and derivational
What is the purpose of derivational morphemes?
Adds some semantical information to the root.
Generally changes the word class.
Can be both prefixes and suffixes,
Inflectional morphemes
Adds some grammatical information to the root
Generally maintains word-class
Suffixes
-s, -ies, -es
-s,-ed,-ing
-er,-est
What are structural properties of nouns?
- Can be quantified
two books - Can possess
the book’s last page
What are structural properties of verbs?
- Can indicate location in time
I walked to the shops, I will walk. - Can indicate whether the action is complete or not.He has been outside, He is going outside.
What are some POS analyses
- Adjectives tend to cluster adjacent to each other and are normally always followed by a noun
- Determiners are normally always followed by a noun
- Nouns often surround verbs
- Preposition Determiner Noun is a common pattern
- Adverbs are usually close to verbs
What are phrases?
Patterned combination of words with other words
Comprised of a fundamental and obligatory element
The elements of a phrase are inherently interdependent but a phrase is independent of other phrases.