Session one unit 1 Flashcards
What does the 30-second conversation untail?
Day to day live conversation; full sentences
Phonology
The phonemes or speech sounds and the rules withthin a language which the sounds can be put together
Which of the following words nonsense words could be an english word based on phonology.
- brilling
- ngangmt
- pkumelkp
- martabastical
- tslenuts
- brilling
- martabastical
What is Orthography?
The writing system that represents a language (how words are spelled, punctuated and spaced).
Is the following statement true or false?
“there are no set rules for how sounds are represented in written English beyond the correlation of one sound per symbol in the alphabet”
False
Which of the following groups of words are built around a similiar morpheme?
a. civilian, Civilization, civilized, civic
b. unintestered, unit, uniform, unimportant
c. above, abstract, abuse, about
d. malware, malignant, malicious, maleasance
a. civilian, Civilization, civilized, civic
d. malware, malignant, malicious, malfesance
T or F
Semantics helps us understand words’ meanings based on context in which they occur”.
True
What is semantics?
The study of word and phrase meanings and relationships
What is syntax?
The system of rules coverning permissible word order in sentences
What is discourse
written or spoken communication oro the exchange of information and ideas, longer than a snetnece, between individuals or beetween writer and reader.
Which is an example of discourse?
a. an essay structure
b. paragraph structure
c. sentence structure
d. story sturcture
a. essay structure
b. paragraph structure
c. story structure
Semantics
The study of word and phrase meanings and relationships
morphology
the study of maningful untis in a language and how the units are combined in word formation
pragmatics
the syste of rules and conventions for using language and related gestures in a social context
orthography
writing system for representing language and the rules that govern it.
