The Development Of Language Flashcards
Knows syntactic rules of language.
Linguistic competence
The expression of the rules in everyday speech.
Linguistic performance
To know language is to know it’s phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
Communicative competence
The science of speech sounds.
Phonetics
All the important speech sounds as a language uses, the rules needed to combine them to make words, and stress and intonation patterns of sounds.
Phonology
Groups of similar sounds that are seen as the same by speakers of a language.
Phonemes
The smallest unit of meaning in a language; it cannot be broken into any smaller parts that have meaning.
Morpheme
A morpheme that can stand alone.
Free Morpheme
A morpheme that cannot stand alone and is always found attached to free morphemes.
Bound morpheme
Bound morphemes that change one words to another.
Derivational morpheme
Other bound morphemes do not change the words meaning so much as modify it to indicate.
Inflectional morphemes
The central part of a word typically consisting of 2 to 5 phonemes.
Root
A group of letters placed before the root of a word.
Prefix
A group of letters placed at the end of the word.
Suffix
The rules for how to combine words into acceptable phrases and sentences and how to transform sentence into other sentences.
Syntax
