FINAL

Question 1

Phonetics

Answer 1

How we pronounce speech sounds

Question 2

Pragmatics

Answer 2

Intended meanings behind words

Question 3

Alphabetic writing system example?

Answer 3

English

Question 4

What is alphabetic writing system?

Answer 4

Where one character refers to a single sound

Question 5

What is an issue with the alphabetic system?

Answer 5

Sound-letter correspondance (kernel vs colonel)

Question 6

What structure does the syllabic writing system usually follow?

Answer 6

CVC

Question 7

What is Logographic writing system

Answer 7

Every element represents a unit of meaning

Question 8

Pictograms and pictographs count as a logographic writing system, true or false?

Answer 8

True, things like emojis and traffic symbols are all units of meaning

Question 9

What is (character) encoding?

Answer 9

Represent and store characters/texts systematically to fit in the computer world

Question 10

What is trancribing?

Answer 10

A process of converting speech or thoughts into written or print form

Question 11

Tacit systems?

Answer 11

Represent symbols and meaning with other sensory characteristics

Question 12

Examples of tacit systems

Answer 12

braille, chromatographic

Question 13

What are the main acoustic properties of soundwaves?

Answer 13

Amplitude and frequency

Question 14

What is acoustic phonetics?

Answer 14

Understanding and applying phonetic rules

Question 15

What is the AI approach to ASR

Answer 15

Combining all other approaches and applying AI models for speech recognition

Question 16

Non word spelling errors

Answer 16

Misspelled words (the vs teh)
Unrecognized names

Question 17

Example of a spellchecker?

Answer 17

Auto correct

Question 18

Lexical verbs

Answer 18

Have a noun-verb agreement
Can have a tense or time preference
(kick, miss, study)

Question 19

What are some conjunctions?

Answer 19

And, or, but, because

Question 20

What are some determiners?

Answer 20

This, that, the

Question 21

What are some prepositions?

Answer 21

on, in, off

Question 22

Derivational Morpheme?

Answer 22

To derive or create a new word by adding on a prefix or suffix
(er, ness, un)

Question 23

Inflectional Morpheme?

Answer 23

Adds grammatical meaning as s in cats while keeping the same part of speech (smarter vs smartest)

Question 24

What are some issues with the dictionary method?

Answer 24

-Long wordlist
-Amount of new words constantly being added
-The need for a general vs a specialized dictionary

Question 25

What is the n-gram method

Answer 25

Continuous sequence of n items (which can be characters, words, phonemes)