Linguistics and Grammar Flashcards
Sentences
Made up of combined clauses that are combined morphemes
Semantics
Meaning/the study of the relationship between signs and symbols and what they represent, the meaning of signs and symbols in a language
Metathesis
when a part of the segment of a sign changes place
ex:DEAF
What aspect of ASL would be considered a phoneme?
handshape, location, palm orientation, movements, and non-manual markers
In English the relationship of noun to another noun is spoken how?
With prepositions and prepositional phrases
What is a phoneme in English?
Different sounds that speakers make that are part of the language but have no meaning. Individual language sounds
Prosody
The rhythm of speech with pauses and phraseology as well as certain auditory intonation patterns
Noun/Verb Modifiers describe:
the relationship of nouns, what nouns look like, and how nouns move
Paralinguistic
study of the way something is said, including intonations, speech rate, use of silence, etc.
Morphology
Word Formation/ the study of how a language uses smaller units to build larger units
Phonology
Sound patterns and rules
Does ASL or English use passive voice often
English! ASL tends to use a lot of active voice
Euphemistic language
the use of socially acceptable terms and phrases in place of blunt descriptive ones
Linguistics
the scientific study of a language system
How do ASL and English differ in the Way they describe nouns?
English tends to use vocal intonation and spoken adjectives while ASL uses a combination of signed adjectives as well as a special set of classifiers called SASSes (size and shape classifiers)
Syntax
Sentence Structure study of the way in which sentences are constructed and how sentences are put together
Phonetics
Study production and transmission, how they are articulated and perceived
Lexical Category: Minor
determiners, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions,and pronouns
Grammar
Rules that vary from language to language
Morphemes
combined phonemes, formed into meaningful parts
In ASL, the relationship of a noun to another noun is conveyed how?
With the use of classifiers and directional verbs
Lexical Category: Major
words or signs that function as nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs
Pragmatic use of a language
the way a language is actually used rather than the language function: helps us make sense of the language we encounter in our interactions with others and determine the meaning of the utterances withing the given context
Equivocal language
the deliberate use of words, signs, or phrases that can be interpreted in more than one way in order to mislead someone
Phonemes
symbols made up of discreet, meaningless parts
Explain what a morpheme is in English
words and other units that have no meaning
for example the affix “s”
“s” is a phoneme, but when you add it to car then cars is a morpheme because it changed the meaning of a word
What are the different type of “Powerless forms of Language”
Hedges, hesitations, intensifiers,polite forms, tag questions and up talk, and disclaimers
Explain and give an example of what a morpheme looks like in ASL
individual signs as well as other features such as numeral incorporation that can modify the meaning of the basic sign
