Session 3

Question 1

61. define minimal pairs

Answer 1

pairs of words that differ in one phoneme- pin and bin, hat and had, bin and bean

Question 2

62. define intonation pattern

Answer 2

when voices rise or fall when speaking

Question 3

63. What is the International Phonemic Alphabet

Answer 3

code of Roman letters to represent all major speech sounds

Question 4

64. define morphemes

Answer 4

word parts that can not be broken down any further- friendly = friend/ ly

Question 5

65. derivational morphemes

Answer 5

prefixes or suffixes that change the part of speech of a word

Question 6

66. inflectional morphemes

Answer 6

suffixes that don’t change the part of speech of a word- adding s, ed, er, ing

Question 7

67. define English syntax

Answer 7

structuring words and phrases to make sentences

Question 8

68. define negations

Answer 8

a word that reverses the meaning of a sentence- not, can’t, never, wasn’t

Question 9

69. define semantics

Answer 9

the meaning behind a word or phrase

Question 10

70. define collocations

Answer 10

words that are commonly paired together- - deep sleep, heavy rain, strong smell

Question 11

71. define homophone

Answer 11

words that sound the same but have different meanings- carrot/ carat, rose/ rose

Question 12

72. define idiom

Answer 12

figurative expressions- over my head, kick the bucket

Question 13

73. define pragmatics

Answer 13

study of expressions in context- You have the green light- meaning depends on the context

Question 14

74. cognates

Answer 14

words that have a similar root and often have similar meanings

Question 15

75. phonology

Answer 15

the study of sounds in a language

Question 16

76. morphology

Answer 16

the study of the origin of words

Question 17

77. syntax

Answer 17

the way words are arranged to create sentences

Question 18

78. pragmatics

Answer 18

studies how context contributes to meaning

Question 19

79. pragmatic failure

Answer 19

failure to understand the message

Question 20

80. implications

Answer 20

when something is implied but not directly stated

Question 21

81. code switching

Answer 21

switching between two languages

Question 22

82. sociolinguistics

Answer 22

the study of language in relation to social factors (gender, dialect, class, region)

Question 23

83. dialect

Answer 23

language particular to a region or social group

Question 24

84. sociolect

Answer 24

the dialect of a certain social class

Question 25

85. what are world Englishes

Answer 25

varieties of English being used around the globe

Question 26

86. Name the rhetorical patterns in written English

Answer 26

Writing a process, classification (grouping), partition (spatial), comparison/contrast, argument, narration

Question 27

87. What is the range of genres in written English

Answer 27

essays, reports, case studies, proposals, book reviews, reflective writing, research

Question 28

88. alliteration

Answer 28

the same sound at the beginning of words- Sally sang songs…

Question 29

89. sociolinguistic competence

Answer 29

using topics and language appropriate to events

Question 30

90. grammatical competence

Answer 30

the knowledge of a language that allows us to produce sentences