Linguistics Flashcards
Invention of totally new terms
Coinage
aspirin, nylon, vaseline, zipper, granola, kleenex, teflon, xerox, Google
Taking over words from other languages
Borrowing
croissant (French), dope (Dutch), lilac (Persian), piano (Italian), pretzel (German), sofa (Arabic), tattoo (Tahitian), tycoon (Japanese), yogurt (Turkish), zebra (Bantu)
Joining of two separate words to produce a single form
Compounding
Combination of 2 separate forms to produce a single new term
Blending
motel = motor and hotel
When a word of more than one syllable is reduced to a shorter form
Clipping
bra = brassiere
cut ng portion lang
formed from a initial letter of a set of other words
Acronym
Scuba = Self-Contained underwater breathing apparatus
A word of one type
usually a noun then reduced to form a word (verb)
Backformation
donation -> donate
a change in function of a word
noun used as a verb
no reduction
exact word
Conversion
Chair (n0 - chair )(v)
adding affixes
dog - dogs (same noun) same classification
comparative and superlative degree
Inflectional Morpheme
adding affixes
nababago yung classification
meaning + ful = meaningful (adverb)
DERIVATION
Derivational Morpheme
infix - gitna
prefix - una
suffix - dulo
from proper name of place or person
Eponym
Boycott (Captain Charles Boycott), Fahrenheit (Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit), Diesel (Rudolf Diesel), Sandwich (John Montagu-Earl of Sandwich)
emphasis on grammar and translation
Mother tongue
Not into speaking
GTM
Grammar Translation Method
no usage of own language, induction
L2 only
drills in listening and speaking, imitation, no memorization
- don’t explain ACT
- don’t translate DEMONSTRATE
- ASK
- speak naturally
Direct Method
- Army Method
- Parroting
- Heavily oriented towards aural and oral exercises
- mim-mem (Behaviorism and structuralism)
- drills
ALM
Audio-Lingual Method
- teacher are counselors and paraphrasers
- group dynamics
- ask L1, answer in L2
- Negative effect: Ringelmann Effect
CLL
Community (Collaborative) Language Learning