Vocabulary Flashcards
Pragmatics
Focus on relationship between expression, meaning, context, and interpretation
Language variation
Seeks two kinds of answers: cognitive explanations dealing with constraints on human language processing capacities.
Social explanations dealing with human interactions and organization of society
Orthography
Writing system
Syllabary
Writing system in which each symbol represents a spoken syllable
Phonetics
Study of sounds made it production of human speech
Articulatory phonetics
Focuses on human vocal apparatus and describes sounds in terms of articulation in vocal tract
Acoustic phonetics
Uses took of physics to study nature of sound waves produced in speech
Place of articulation
Location where air is most obstructed
Manner of articulation
How the airstream is obstructed
grammar
Structural patterns of speech, sounds, words, and sentence formation and meaning
Phonological knowledge
Sounds and sequencing
Semantic knowledge
Meanings of a word
Syntactic knowledge
Category and how to use it in a sentence
Morphological knowledge
How related words are formed
Mental lexicon
Information about a word known in a mental ‘dictionary’
