vocab 4

Question 1

Affix

Answer 1

a bound morpheme attached to a stem or root

Question 2

Affixation

Answer 2

a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme, an affix, is attached to a morphological base

Question 3

Agglutinating language

Answer 3

a grammatical process in which word are composed of a sequence of morphemes

Question 4

Allomorph

Answer 4

one of two or more complementary morphs which manifest a morpheme in its different phonological or morphological environments

Question 5

Alternation

Answer 5

a phonological pattern in which an underlying form has more than one surface realisation depending on the linguistic context

Question 6

Ambiguity

Answer 6

the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage

Question 7

Analytic language

Answer 7

any language that uses specific grammatical words or particles rather than inflection to express syntactic relations within sentences

Question 8

Bound Morpheme

Answer 8

A morpheme that must be attached to other morphemes

Question 9

Bound root

Answer 9

a root which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme

Question 10

Closed lexical category

Answer 10

small group of words with a role that is basically grammatical such as articles and prepositions in English

Question 11

Compounding

Answer 11

a word composed of two or more words which may be written as a single word or as words separated by spaces or hyphens

Question 12

Conjunction

Answer 12

a word which joins clauses or parts of clauses or single words together

Question 13

Content morpheme

Answer 13

morphemes that are comprised of two separate classed called bases, roots, and affixes

Question 14

Content word

Answer 14

the nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs that constitute the major part of the vocabulary

Question 15

Derivation

Answer 15

a process where one word is changed into another

Question 16

Determiner

Answer 16

A word of affix that belongs to a class of noun modifiers that expresses the reference including the quantity of a noun.

Question 17

Form

Answer 17

the phonological or gestural representation of a morpheme or word

Question 18

Free morpheme

Answer 18

a single morpheme that constitutes a word

Question 19

Function morpheme

Answer 19

morpheme which simply modifies the meaning of a word rather than supplying the root meaning

Question 20

Function word

Answer 20

a word that does not always have a clear lexical meaning but has a grammatical function

Question 21

Fusional language

Answer 21

morphemes in fusion language aren’t readily distinguishable from the root or amount themselves

Question 22

Hierarchical Structure

Answer 22

it consists of a series of small components that can be combined to form larger units

Question 23

Homophony

Answer 23

a single phonetic form has two or more entirely distinct unrelated meaning

Question 24

Incorporation

Answer 24

a phenomenon by which grammatical category such as a verb forms a compound with its direct object

Question 25

Infix

Answer 25

a bound morpheme that is inserted in the middle of another morpheme

Question 26

Inflection

Answer 26

a bound grammatical morpheme that is affixed to a word according to rules of syntax

Question 27

Input

Answer 27

the language data which the learner is exposed to

Question 28

Lexical Category

Answer 28

classed of words which differ in how other words can be constructed out of them

Question 29

Lexicon

Answer 29

the study of the meaning conveyed by complex linguistic expressions

Question 30

Morpheme

Answer 30

smallest unit of linguist meaning or function

Question 31

Morphology

Answer 31

the study of the structure of words: the component of the grammar that includes the rules of word formation

Question 32

Open lexical category

Answer 32

lexical category is open when a word and the original word belong to the same category

Question 33

Output

Answer 33

is the language learners produce either in speaking or writing

Question 34

Partial reduplication

Answer 34

morphological process in which the root or stem of a word or even the whole word is repeated exactly

Question 35

Polysynthetic language

Answer 35

language that has an extraordinary amount of morphology and many compound words a single word form expresses only one meaning

Question 36

Prefix

Answer 36

an affix that is attached to the beginning of a morpheme or stem

Question 37

Prepositon

Answer 37

a word governing and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

Question 38

Productive

Answer 38

refers to morphological rules that can be used freely and apply to all forms to create new words

Question 39

Pronoun

Answer 39

a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers to the participants in the discourse

Question 40

Reduplicant

Answer 40

a word formation in which meaning is expressed by repeating all or part of a word

Question 41

Reduplication

Answer 41

a morphological process that repeats or copies all or part of a word to produce a new word

Question 42

Root

Answer 42

the morpheme that remains when all affixes are stripped from a complex word

Question 43

Simultaneous Affix

Answer 43

affix that takes place at the same time as its base

Question 44

Stem

Answer 44

the base to which an affix is attached to create a more complex form that may be another stem or a word

Question 45

Suffix

Answer 45

an affix that is attached to the end of a morpheme or stem

Question 46

Suppletion

Answer 46

a relationship between forms of a word wherein on form cannot be phonologically or morphologically derived from other