Sonority Flashcards
Sonority scale
stops fricatives nasals liquids glides and vowels
SFNLG
how to make a sylable
identify nuclei, identify onsents “one consonent left of each nuclei” identify codsas
identify rhymes nucleus and coda.
adverbs
modifies a verb adjective or other adverb
constituency tests
substitution, standalone, clefting
subsititution
replacing a statement as a proform eg,there, he she it they him her them, does so, so
standalone
q and a: must make sense, made only of underlined words, and must contain all information
celfting
put it was/is _____ that ____.
put the constituent in the first box and the rest of the information i nthe other.
use of constituency tests
which words to group togehter
S ->
NP (Aux) VP
NP ->
(Det) (AdjP) N (PP)
VP
V (NP) (PP) (Adv) (CP)
CP
Comp S
PP
P NP
AdjP
(Adv) Adj
complementizer
an element that turns a sentance into a complement
lexical ambiguity
due to a single word having more than one meaning
structural ambiguity
differnt meanings due to differnt structures
deep structure
the basic word order
s structure
the structure that gets pronounced
Move aux
aux goes before the subject
do support
aux is inserted
what is a t
a trace (t) allows the d structure to still be seen
move wh
moves wh questions to comp position
passive transformation
delete NP, add auxiliary verb to be, change verb form to pp. Move compleemnt NP to subject position
underlying phonemes
general phonemes
backformation
removal of affix ex
derivational affixes
create or derive a new word
inflectional affixes
create a differnt form of the same word
compounding
adding two free morphemes ex. greenhouse
endocentric vs exocentric
endo is a subtype exo is not
reduplication
repeating the word
suppletion
replace a morpheme for conttrast go vs went
conversion
another synatactic catergory ex v to n
clipping
shortening a word
blending
mixing words
acronyms
initial letters and pronuncing them
eponyms
based from peoples names
head final vs head initial
complement first or last
complementizers
turn clauess into dependent ones or subordinates ex. if, to , while, since, because, although, if, when, so that, as such, before, after, until
aux verb
helps other verbs ex. his, be do, have ,could