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Ch. 4 Morphology Flashcards

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Affix

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Added piece, suffix and prefix, attached to a stem

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Affixation

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The process of using affixes

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Agglutinating Language

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Synthesis of morphemes

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Allomorph

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Phonetically different forms that belong to the same morpheme

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Alternation

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Morpheme-internal modification

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Ambiguity

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Associated with more than one meaning

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Analytic Language

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Made up of sequences of free morphemes

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Bound Morpheme

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Morphemes that cannot stand alone

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Bound Root

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Roots that cannot stand alone

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Closed Lexical Category

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Include pronouns, determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions, and rarely acquire new members

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Compounding

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A process that forms new words not by means of affixes but from two or more independent words

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Conjuction

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A closed lexical category (e.g. and, or, but)

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Content Morpheme

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Carry semantic content and include all derivational affixes, bound roots, and free roots that belong to lexical categories preposition, determiners, pronoun, and conjunctions

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Content Word

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Free content morphemes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs)

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Derivation

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Creating words out of other words

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Determiner

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e.g. a, the, this, your

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Form

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What a word sounds like when spoken

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Free Morpheme

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Simple words that can be used as words all by themselves

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Function Morpheme

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Contain primarily grammatical relevant information; include all inflectional affixes and free roots that belong to lexical categories preposition, determiner, pronoun, or conjunction

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Function Word

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Free function morphemes (prepositions, determiners, pronouns, and conjunctions)

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Fusional Language

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A subtype of synthetic language; words are formed by adding bound morphemes to stems and the affixes may not be easy to separate from the stem

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Hierarchal Structure

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Schematically represented by a tree diagram that indicates the steps involved in the formation of the word

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Homophony

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Affixes that sound alike but have different meanings or functions

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Incorporation

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A built in form

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Infix

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Inserted within the root morpheme

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Inflection

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The creation of different grammatical forms

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Input

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The stems with which a given affix may combine

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Lexical Category

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Classes of words that differ in how other words can be constructed out of them

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Lexicon

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Mental dictionary

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Morpheme

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Roots and affixes

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Morphology

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The component of mental grammar that deals with types of words and how words are formed out of smaller meaningful pieces and other words

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Open Lexical Category

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Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; new words added to the language

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Output

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All of the words that are formed when an affix attaches to a stem

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Partial Reduplication

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A process of forming new words by doubling part of a free morpheme

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Polysynthetic Language

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Highly complex words formed by combining several stems and affixes; a matter of making nouns into parts of the verb forms

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Prefix

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Affixes the precede the stem they attach to

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Preposition

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e.g. on, of, under, for

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Productive

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Currently used to make new words

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Pronoun

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e.g. we, she, they

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Reduplicant

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A process of forming new words by doubling either an entire free morpheme or part of it

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Root

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A word in which affixes are built on

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Simultaneous Affix

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When affixes appear at the same time as each other

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Stem

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The thing to which the affixes attach

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Suffix

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Affixes that follow a stem

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Suppletion

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Completely irregular situation

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