Defining Terms Flashcards
Define Coronal Consonants
Articulated with the tongue tip
Define Dorsal Consonants
Articulated with the body and/or back of the tongue
What is another word for glotallic ingressive sounds
implosives
What is the direction of airflow of clicks
Velaric ingressive
What organ initiates the airstream in a pulmonic egressive sound
The lungs
A brief period of voicelessness after the release of a stop and before the start of a following vowel
Aspiration
What is an inflectional morpheme
A morpheme that adds grammatical information
Plural form -s, comparative -er (narrower), changing tense, etc
What is a derivational morpheme
Formation of a new lexeme from an existing lexeme
“-ness”+kind=kindness “-ment”+develop=development
“Un-“+like=unlike
Define an Affricate
Combination of a stop followed by a fricative
What is an affix
A morpheme attached to a word stem to form a new word
Can also be inflectional! Can be at the front or end of the word/root
What is a compounding morpheme
Independent morphemes put together to make a new word
“bookshelf” (book + shelf) and
“sunflower” (sun + flower)
What is a root morpheme
The morpheme that gives the word meaning
Explain bound vs Free morphemes
Free morphemes are stand alone words, bound morphemes are not
Define a suffix
A morpheme added at the end of a word
Complementary Distribution
A situation where two sounds never occur in the same environment.
