Form, Content, and Use Flashcards
What is Syntax
Grammer, Structure of words, phrases, and sentences (FORM)
What is Semantics
vocabulary, descriptive skills, the MEANING of words (CONTENT)
What is Pragmatics
The FUNCTION of language, the WHY, Includes storytelling and conversation skills such as eyecontact.
What governs the language of play?
Pragmatics (the FUNCTION of language)
A sentence with active structure looks like:
Noun - Verb - Object
ex. “The boy ate the hotdog”
A passive sentence structure looks like:
Object- verb- noun
ex. “The hotdog was eaten by the boy”
What is a free morpheme
An independent part of a word that can stand alone as its own word
What is a bound morpheme
Grammatical tags/markers that cannot function independently, and must be attached to free morphemes
ex. “s” “ing”
What is Phonology
The study of speech sounds and sound patterns
What is the hardest to teach?
Syntax, Pragmatics, or Semantics?
Pragmatics
What part of language includes Figurative speech?
Semantics (CONTENT)
What is Morphology
The study of meaning in a language
