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