Sonority Flashcards

1
Q

Sonority scale

A

stops fricatives nasals liquids glides and vowels

SFNLG

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2
Q

how to make a sylable

A

identify nuclei, identify onsents “one consonent left of each nuclei” identify codsas
identify rhymes nucleus and coda.

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3
Q

adverbs

A

modifies a verb adjective or other adverb

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4
Q

constituency tests

A

substitution, standalone, clefting

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5
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subsititution

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replacing a statement as a proform eg,there, he she it they him her them, does so, so

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6
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standalone

A

q and a: must make sense, made only of underlined words, and must contain all information

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7
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celfting

A

put it was/is _____ that ____.

put the constituent in the first box and the rest of the information i nthe other.

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8
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use of constituency tests

A

which words to group togehter

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9
Q

S ->

A

NP (Aux) VP

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10
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NP ->

A

(Det) (AdjP) N (PP)

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11
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VP

A

V (NP) (PP) (Adv) (CP)

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12
Q

CP

A

Comp S

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13
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PP

A

P NP

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14
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AdjP

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(Adv) Adj

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15
Q

complementizer

A

an element that turns a sentance into a complement

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16
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lexical ambiguity

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due to a single word having more than one meaning

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17
Q

structural ambiguity

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differnt meanings due to differnt structures

18
Q

deep structure

A

the basic word order

19
Q

s structure

A

the structure that gets pronounced

20
Q

Move aux

A

aux goes before the subject

21
Q

do support

A

aux is inserted

22
Q

what is a t

A

a trace (t) allows the d structure to still be seen

23
Q

move wh

A

moves wh questions to comp position

24
Q

passive transformation

A

delete NP, add auxiliary verb to be, change verb form to pp. Move compleemnt NP to subject position

25
Q

underlying phonemes

A

general phonemes

26
Q

backformation

A

removal of affix ex

27
Q

derivational affixes

A

create or derive a new word

28
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inflectional affixes

A

create a differnt form of the same word

29
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compounding

A

adding two free morphemes ex. greenhouse

30
Q

endocentric vs exocentric

A

endo is a subtype exo is not

31
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reduplication

A

repeating the word

32
Q

suppletion

A

replace a morpheme for conttrast go vs went

33
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conversion

A

another synatactic catergory ex v to n

34
Q

clipping

A

shortening a word

35
Q

blending

A

mixing words

36
Q

acronyms

A

initial letters and pronuncing them

37
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eponyms

A

based from peoples names

38
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head final vs head initial

A

complement first or last

39
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complementizers

A

turn clauess into dependent ones or subordinates ex. if, to , while, since, because, although, if, when, so that, as such, before, after, until

40
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aux verb

A

helps other verbs ex. his, be do, have ,could