Morphology

Question 1

Affix

Answer 1

A morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.

Question 2

Affixation

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The linguistic process that speakers use to form different words by adding morphemes at the beginning (prefixation), the middle (infixation) or the end (suffixation) of words.

Question 3

Agglutinating Language

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A form of synthetic language in which each affix typically represents one unit of meaning.

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Allomorph

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Any of two or more actual representations of a morpheme.

Question 5

Alternation

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Is the phenomenon of a morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization.

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Ambiguity

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Quality of language that makes speech or written text open to multiple interpretations.

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Analytic Language

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A language that conveys relationships between words in sentences primarily by way of helper words (particles, prepositions, etc.) and word order, as opposed to using inflections.

Question 8

Bound Morpheme

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Morpheme that can appear only as part of a larger expression.

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Bound Root

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A root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme.

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Closed Lexical Category

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Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are open lexical categories.

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Compounding

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The process of word formation that creates compound lexemes.

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Conjunction

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A word that is used to connect words, phrases, and clauses (i.e. and, or, but, etc).

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Content Morpheme

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A root that forms the semantic core of a major class word.

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Content Word

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Words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur.

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Derivation

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The formation of a word by changing the form of the base or by adding affixes to it

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Determiner

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A word, phrase, or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and generally serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context.

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Form

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The symbols used to represent meaning.

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Free Morpheme

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Free morpheme is a morpheme (or word element) that can stand alone as a word.

Question 19

Function Morpheme

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A morpheme which simply modifies the meaning of a word, rather than supplying the root meaning.

Question 20

Function Word

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A word whose purpose is more to signal grammatical relationship than the lexical meaning of a sentence.

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Fusional Language

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A type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use a single inflectional morpheme to denote multiple grammatical, syntactic, or semantic features.

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Hierarchical Structure

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Refers to the format of linguistic representations.

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Homophony

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The linguistic phenomenon whereby words of different origins become identical in pronunciation.

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Incorporation

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A phenomenon by which a grammatical category, such as a verb, forms a compound with its direct object.

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Infix

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Infixes are part of the general class of affixes. Sounds or letters attached to or inserted within a word to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form.

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Inflection

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The change in the form of a word (in English, usually the addition of endings) to mark such distinctions as tense, person, number, gender, mood, voice, and case.

Question 27

Input

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The processable language the learners are exposed to while listening or reading.

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Lexical Category

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Classes of words (e.g., noun, verb, preposition), which differ in how other words can be constructed out of them.

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Lexicon

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The total stock of words and word elements that carry meaning.

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Morpheme

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The smallest grammatical unit of speech. It may be a word, like “place” or “an,” or an element of a word, like re- and -ed in “reappeared.”

Question 31

Morphology

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The study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

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Open Lexical Category

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If the new word and the original word belong to the same category.

Question 33

Output

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Is the language they produce, either in speaking or writing

Question 34

Partial Reduplication

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Is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word.

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Polysynthetic Language

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Languages in which words are composed of many morphemes.

Question 36

Prefix

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A prefix is an affix that is joined before a root or stem.

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Preposition

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Category or part of speech that shows the relationship (such as position or direction) between its complement and some other word in the sentence.

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Productive

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The degree to which speakers of a language use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation.

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Pronoun

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A word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Reduplicant

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A reduplicative is a word or lexeme (such as mama) that contains two identical or very similar parts.

Question 41

Reduplication

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A morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

Question 42

Root

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Is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements.

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Simultaneous Affix

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An affix that takes place at the same time as its base.

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Stem

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Part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning.

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Suffix

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An affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Suppletion

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A form of morphological irregularity whereby a change in a grammatical category triggers a change in word form, with a different root substituting for the normal one.