Module 5 Syntax Vocabulary Practice

Question 1

Hearing Impression

Answer 1

the process of forming social impressions from a speaker’s voice, or how listeners use linguistic context to understand speech

Question 2

semantics

Answer 2

the study of meaning in language, and is a sub-discipline of linguistics

Question 3

Morphology

Answer 3

a branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words and how they are formed

Question 4

Free Morpheme

Answer 4

a word part that can stand alone as a word and convey meaning without the need to be attached to other morphemes

Question 5

Bound Morpheme

Answer 5

a word part that cannot stand alone as a word and must be attached to another morpheme to create a word

Question 6

Phonetics

Answer 6

a branch of linguistics that studies the production and perception of speech sounds

Question 7

linguistics

Answer 7

the scientific study of language, including its structure, meaning, and use

Question 8

Phonology

Answer 8

the study of how sounds are organized in a language, and how they are used to convey meaning

Question 9

voiceless

Answer 9

the characteristic of sounds that are produced without the vibration of the larynx

Question 10

voiced

Answer 10

a speech sound that is produced when the vocal cords vibrate

Question 11

Syntax

Answer 11

the study of how words and phrases are combined to form sentences

Question 12

Articulatory system

Answer 12

the system of muscles, bones, cavities, and teeth in the mouth and nose that produces speech sounds

Question 13

Auditory processing

Answer 13

the process by which the brain interprets and recognizes sounds

Question 14

Auditory Phonetics

Answer 14

a branch of linguistics that studies how humans perceive and process speech sounds

Question 15

Pragmatics

Answer 15

the study of how language is used in context to create meaning, and how people communicate and understand each other

Question 16

pragmatic function

Answer 16

the meaning a speaker intends to convey to the listener

Question 17

Semanticity

Answer 17

the idea that speech sounds and symbols have specific meanings

Question 18

Prescribe

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the practice of establishing rules for how a language should be used, rather than how it is actually used

Question 18

Prescriptive Grammar

Answer 18

a set of rules that dictate how language should be used, as opposed to how it is actually used

Question 19

Descriptive Grammar

Answer 19

a linguistic study of how a language is used in daily life, including its structure and rules

Question 20

language Variation

Answer 20

the study of how a language differs in its use across regions, social groups, or contexts

Question 21

Mental Grammar

Answer 21

a system of knowledge that allows speakers of a language to understand each other and produce new language

Question 22

Lexicon

Answer 22

the collection of words and phrases that make up a language, as well as the knowledge that speakers have about those words

Question 23

Speech Communication Chain Steps

Answer 23

thought formation, language processing, sound production, transmission, hearing, and comprehension

Question 24

Speech Communication Chain

Answer 24

the process of how a message is conveyed from a speaker's mind to a listener's mind

Question 25

Morphemes

Answer 25

the smallest unit of language that has meaning and is used to form words

Question 26

Homonymy

Answer 26

words that have different meanings but the same spelling or pronunciation, or both

Question 27

Homography

Answer 27

a group of words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations

Question 28

Bidirectional

Answer 28

Some languages are written and read from right-to-left

Question 29

Unidirectional

Answer 29

the idea that grammaticalization occurs in one direction, from lexical to grammatical words

Question 30

Context of Use

Answer 30

the physical and psychological setting in which language is used, and the words and sentences that surround a part of a discourse

Question 31

Semiotics

Answer 31

the study of how people use signs and symbols to communicate, including in language

Question 32

Lexical Relations

Answer 32

the ways words relate to each other in terms of meaning, and are a key part of linguistics

Question 33

Cognitive Science

Answer 33

interdisciplinary fields that study the mind and language, and how they relate to each other

Question 34

Cognitive

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a field of study that combines knowledge from linguistics, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and neuropsychology to understand how language and cognition interact

Question 35

Articulators

Answer 35

the parts of the vocal tract that work together to create speech sounds

Question 36

Systematicness

Answer 36

the statistical relationship between the sound patterns of words and how they are used

Question 37

Tonal Effects

Answer 37

the use of pitch to distinguish words or grammatical meaning in a language

Question 38

Stress Effects

Answer 38

the emphasis placed on syllables in a word when spoken, or how stress can impact a person's ability to express themselves

Question 39

Manner of Articulation

Answer 39

the way sounds are made in speech, or how the air is released from the mouth to create a sound