Midterm 2 Flashcards

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what is a morpheme

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a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function, words are made up of morphemes, we put morphemes together to make up a word

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free morpheme

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can stand alone (root word) “talk” + ative

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bound morpheme

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attached to other morphemes (affixes) talk + “ative”

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types of free morphemes

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lexical and functional

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lexical morphemes

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content words - carry meaning, open class - we can create more i.e. google, covid. (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs)

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functional morphemes

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closed class - we usually don’t create more. (articles, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns)

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types of bound morphemes

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derivational and inflectional

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derivational morphemes

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make up new words or change grammatical category.

encourage (verb) –> encouragement (noun)

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inflectional morphemes

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indicates grammatical function of the word, does not change grammatical category.

encourage (verb) –> encouraged (verb, past tense)

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allomorphs

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different ways of applying the same morpheme

-s in cats
-z in dogs
-ez in horses

parang allophones

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analytic language

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languages that use very few bound morphemes

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synthetic language

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morphologically complex

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what are analytic languages

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English, Mandarin, Vietnamese-Hawai’ian (isolating)

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what are synthetic languages

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Spanish-Latin (Fusional), Hungarian-Turkish (Agglutinative), Greenlandic-Navajo (Polysynthetic)

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parts of speech

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Articles
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Verbs - actions (talk), states (have)
Adverbs
Prepositions - at, in, on, with, without
Conjunctions - and, but, because, when

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grammatical agreement

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Language must agree in:

Number: singular/plural
Person: 1st person (speaker), 2nd person (hearer), 3rd person (others)
Tense
Grammatical gender: In English (pronouns only), in Spanish (nouns, adjectives, adverbs etc)

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Prescriptive Approach vs Descriptive Approach

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Prescriptive is how language should be (formal) - “I’m going to get a drink really quickly”

Descriptive is how language is used (informal) - “Imma get a drink real quick”

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word order

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subject-verb-object = english “i will buy an ipad”

verb-subject-object = tagalog “bibili ako ng ipad”

verb-object-subject

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referential meaning

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literal meaning of a word, dictionary meanings

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associative/emotive meaning

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personal associations or connotations attached to a word

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agent

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the entity performing the action

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theme

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the entity involved in the action (nagalaw lang, or location described)

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patient

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the entity affected by the action (so it undergoes a state of change)

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instrument

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used by an agent to perform the action (preposition with is a clue)

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experiencer
the person who has a feeling, perception, or state (not performing an action)
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verbs that elicit experience
feel, know, hear, enjoy
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synonymy
2 words with closely related meanings hard/difficult doctor/physician buy/purchase
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antonymy
2 words with opposite meanings big/small alive/dead
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prototype
characteristic instance of a word, resembles the clearest example. it has groups and subgroups when we say vehicle, we usually automatically think of a 4 wheel car.
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collocation
words that are frequently occurring together. a word elicits another word. salt and? hammer and? table and?
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scientific method
a method of procedure consists of a systematic observation, measurement, experiment, formulation, testing, and modification of hypothesis.
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scientific method steps (6)
1. make an observation 2. ask a question 3. form a hypothesis 4. make a prediction based on the hypothesis 5. test the prediction 6. iterate: use the results to make a new hypothesis or prediction
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parts of a research article (5)
introduction methods results discussion conclusion
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components of the introduction
statement of the problem purpose of the study rationale - literature review (what's the gap?) question, hypothesis, prediction
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components of the methods
participants, design (materials and procedure)
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results
how was the research question answered?
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components of discussion
answers question, discuss limitations, fit previous literature-theoretical implications, address purpose/problem-practical implications
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conclusion
did the results answer the question or hypothesis?
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3 ways to find an article
google scholar, ASHA evidence maps, specific article under an author's name