Definitions: w4 language structure

Question 1

Pragmatics

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Context

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Morpheme

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the meaningful morphological unit of language

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Competence v performance

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C is knowing the language
P id doing something with language

Question 4

Generative grammar

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Rules the set apart languages

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Phrase structure rules

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type of rewrite rules used to describe a givens language syntax

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Encapsulation

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the process of expressing or showing important facts about something

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Parsing

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To analyse a sentence by naming its parts and its relations to each other

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Modular

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Separate parts of something

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Interactive

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Input of a user

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Garden-path sentence

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Sentences that mislead or trick their readers into interpreting the sentence wrong

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Minimal Attachment

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Readers initially attempt to understand a sentence in the most simple syntax format

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Late Closure

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New words tend to be processes with the phrase or clause currently being processed

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Incrementality

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Small increments

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Lexical Ambiguity

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meaning of a word is unclear

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Homonymy

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words spelt or pronounced the same with different meanings

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Polysemy

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Co-existence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase

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Metonymy

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the substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant

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Denotation

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the literal meaning of the word

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Connotation

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a feeling suggested by a word

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Synonym

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A word similar to the meant word

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Antonym

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A word opposite to the meant word