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Phonology

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Study the ways in which phonetic sounds are used to create larger units of meaning

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Phonetics

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Considers how individual speech sounds are produced and perceived

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3
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What is the smallest unit of sound?

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Phonemes

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4
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How many phonemes are in the English Alphabet?

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26

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5
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What 2 ways can phonemes be written?

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International Phonetic Alphabet and Graphemes /t/

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6
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Order when classifying phonemes

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Beginning, middle, and end phoneme

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What are two main prosodic features of language?

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Pitch and stress

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What is pitch?

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Difference in the frequency of vibrations of vocal cords (low/high)

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What is stress?

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A difference in the force applied to an element of speech.

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10
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What are two components of syllables?

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Onset and Rime

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Onset

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the phoneme that occurs at the beginning of a syllable. /b/ in bat

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Rime

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Is the vowel and any consonant that follows the onset in a syllable
/at/ in bat

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13
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How are vowels classifed?

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High, mid, low

Front, Central, and back

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How are consonants classified?

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Location in the vocal track.

Manner in which they are produced.

Voiced or unvoiced

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What are the 4 prosodic features of language?

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pitch, tone, intonation, and stress

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Intonation

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When pitch rises or falls over the course of a sentence

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17
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Phonetic Interference

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Refers to issues that arise when trying to learn the sound system in a new language.

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18
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Morpheme

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smallest meaningful unit in a language. (words or parts of words)

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19
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Free/Independent Morpheme

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can occur by itself (root word)

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Bound Morpheme

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Can only occur in combination with one or more additional morpheme. (Prefix or suffix)

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Word Analysis

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Breaking apart a complex word into its constituent morphemes in order to help students understand an unfamiliar word

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22
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Affixes

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Aka bound morpheme

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Inflectional affixes

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May change the number, gender, case, or tense of the root word

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Derivational affixes

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May change the meaning of the root word (happy to unhappy)

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Cognats

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words that have common origins to other languages

26
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What are the 8 parts of speech?

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Nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, conjunctions

27
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conjunction

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a word that connects other words, phrases, clausses, or sentences.

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Coordinating Conjunctions

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Link together words or phrases (for, and, not, but, to, yet, and so)

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Correlative Conjunction

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Appear in pairs and link words (whether or not)

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Subordinating conjunctions

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join unequal parts of a sentence (when, because, before, if)

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Syntax

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is the way in which words are combined in language to create phrases, clauses, and sentences

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What is the most common syntactic form of an English sentence?

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Subject-verb-object

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Transitioning verbs

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requires an object in order to constitute a complete thought

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Intransitive Verbs

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does not require an object to constitute a complete thought

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Linking Verbs

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does not indicate action. Instead connects the subject to a word (to be)

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Fininte Verbs

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Verbs that are conjugated to agree with the subject

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Clause

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A group of words with a subject and a predicate.

When I saw him

38
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Independent Clause

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is a clause that can stand alone.

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Simple sentence

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a complete thought consisting of a subject and a predicate

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Compound Sentence

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Consists of 2 or more independent clauses

41
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Complex Sentence

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Consists of an independent clause and a dependent clause.

42
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Dependent Clause

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Cannot stand alone as a sentence

43
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How are sentences classified?

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by their syntax

by their purpose

44
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Sentences that make a statement

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Declarative Sentence

45
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Sentences that pose a question

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interrogative sentences

46
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Sentences that give a command

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Imperative Sentences

47
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Sentences that show excitement

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Exclamatory Sentences

48
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Semantics

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The study of meaning of words, phrases, and sentences

49
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Denotation

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of a word is its most literal definition, the one listed in the dictionary. (semantics)

50
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Connotation

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of a word is the association and emotions that a word evokes.

51
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Figurative Language

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Conveys meaning different from the literal meaning. (Metaphors, similes, and idioms)

52
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Homographs

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2 words spelled the same

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Homophones

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2 words that sound the same but spelled differently

54
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Pragmatics

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is the study of how meaning is affected by context

55
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Implication

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Is the conclusion that can be drawn even though it isn’t stated.

56
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Paul Grice’s Cooperative Principle

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His work focuses on how pragmatics function in language. How we rely on shared assumptions, background knowledge, and implied meaning to communicate more or more clearly than our stated words would allow.

57
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Pragmatic features of communication

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are the non-linguistic factors that influence what and how effectively we communicate in a given language community. (eye contact, personal space, gestures)

58
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Speech Act Theory

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Launched by John L austin in the 1970s.

Made up of locution, illocution, perlocution, and pragmatic failure.

59
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Locution

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What a person Says (Speech Act Theory)

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Illocution

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What a person means (speech act theory)

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Perlocution

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The effect the persons utterance has

62
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Pragmatic Failure

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Occurs when a person fails to understand what is meant despite correctly understanding what was said.

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