Language Flashcards
Areas of Language
Form
Content
Function (Use)
form
phonology
orphology
syntax
content
semantics
function
pragmatics
SLI
children who have trouble developing language in the absence of any reasons or cause.
Suprasegmentals
-suprasegmentals, refer to the melodic and rhythmic elements of the phonological system.
- Stress
- Juncture
- Intonation
Paralinguistic elements of communication
are not linguistic elements. They go with the linguistic elements.
- voice
- resonance
- timing/latency
Nonverbal Elements of Communication
- facial gesture
- limb gesture
- gaze
- head and body movement
- physical distance or proxemics
erivational morphemes
added to a word to create a new word or a new form of a word.
Lexical semantics
words (forms (morphemes) and meanings (sememes)) which constitute the generic, culturally-shared knowledge of the speakers of the language.
discourse pragmatics
how linguistically coded propositions fit into a wider communicative context.
Organization of a lexicon-
- Meaning
- Semantic category
- Synonyms/Antonyms
- Meaning relationship
- Phonological info
- Morphological info
- Syntactic info
- Pragmatic
homographs
word with multiple meanings all of whose forms sound alike and are spelled the same way
Homonyms
-A word with multiple meanings all of whose forms sound alike and are spelled differently
Syntax
sequential and temporal
Transitive
Transitive clauses have two nouns — a subject noun and an object noun.
Example: I ate dinner
intransitive verbs
Intransitive clauses have a single noun — a subject noun.
Example: She slept well
Major clause types
- Declarative-
- Interrogative
- Imperative
- Exclamatory
-Declarative
making a statement
-Imperative
-giving a command, making a request
Pragmatics (examples of)
Topic maintenance Coherence inferencing Ellipsis Register