Week 6 (Morphology Vocabulary)

Question 1

affix

Answer 1

a word able to be added to a root or base word to create a new meaning (e.g., un/reasonable)

Question 2

affixiation

Answer 2

process of a bound morpheme (affix) is attached to a morphological base

Question 3

agglutinating language

Answer 3

synthetic language where words are formed by putting together morphemes

Question 4

allomorph

Answer 4

a unique form that carry the same meaning but alternative phonological shape

Question 5

alternation

Answer 5

the switching of two languages or variation in form or sound of a word

Question 6

ambiguity

Answer 6

speech or text that is open to multiple interpretations

Question 7

analytic language

Answer 7

any language that organizes words and grammar to express syntactic relations

Question 8

bound morpheme

Answer 8

have no linguistic meaning unless connected to a root or base word (e.g., -ing)

Question 9

bound root

Answer 9

a bound morpheme, cannot occur separate from a morpheme (e.g., -ceive)

Question 10

closed lexical category

Answer 10

conjunctions, determiners, pronouns, and prepositions

Question 11

compounding

Answer 11

a word that consists or more than one stem

Question 12

conjunction

Answer 12

a part of speech that connects words

Question 13

content morpheme

Answer 13

a root that forms the semantic core of a major class word

Question 14

content word

Answer 14

possess conceptual meaning (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Question 15

derivation

Answer 15

historical explanation for word or phrase origin

Question 16

determiner

Answer 16

a word placed before a noun to provide info (quantity, ownership, specificity)

Question 17

form

Answer 17

a meaningful unit of speech (e.g., word, phrase, sentence, morpheme, suffix)

Question 18

free morpheme

Answer 18

a morpheme that can stand alone (e.g., dog)

Question 19

function morpheme

Answer 19

words that demonstrate a functional role between words (e.g., but, what, he)

Question 20

function word

Answer 20

articles, auxiliaries, demonstratives, quantifiers, prepositions, pronouns, and conjunctions

Question 21

fusional language

Answer 21

a synthetic language formed by the fusion of morphemes

Question 22

hierarchical structure

Answer 22

ordering of units by size, subordination, or abstraction

Question 23

homophony

Answer 23

words of different origins become identical in pronunciation

Question 24

incorporation

Answer 24

when a noun is moved into the verb (e.g., babysit, woodchopped)

Question 25

infix

Answer 25

affix that is incorporated inside another word

Question 26

inflection

Answer 26

change in the form of a word (e.g., -s, -ing, -ed)

Question 27

input

Answer 27

spoken or printed elements of the target language

Question 28

lexical category

Answer 28

classes of words

Question 29

lexicon

Answer 29

vocabulary of a language

Question 30

morpheme

Answer 30

a short segment of a language that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful segments

Question 31

morphology

Answer 31

the study of forms

Question 32

open lexical catergory

Answer 32

when the new word and the original word belong to the same category (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs)

Question 33

output

Answer 33

the language a learner produces (written and spoken)

Question 34

partial reduplication

Answer 34

reduplication of only part of a word

Question 35

polysynthetic language

Answer 35

synthetic language where words consist of several morphemes

Question 36

prefix

Answer 36

affix attached or joined to a base/stem/root

Question 37

preposition

Answer 37

a word that appears before its complement (e.g., of, in, to)

Question 38

productive

Answer 38

the degree that native speakers use a particular grammatical process

Question 39

pronoun

Answer 39

a word that takes the place of a noun

Question 40

reduplicant

Answer 40

unit repeated in reduplication

Question 41

reduplication

Answer 41

a process where meaning is expressed by repeating part or all of a word

Question 42

root

Answer 42

core of a word that cannot be separated into more meaningful elements

Question 43

simultaneous affix

Answer 43

an affix articulated at the same time as another affix (e.g., write to each other)

Question 44

stem

Answer 44

part of a word that holds lexical meaning

Question 45

suffix

Answer 45

affix added after the stem of a word

Question 46

suppletion

Answer 46

use of one word to inflect on another when the two words are not a cognate (e.g., highly irregular)