Chapter 4

Question 1

Morphology

Answer 1

study of words, forms of words, and word formation

Question 2

Morpheme

Answer 2

smallest meaningful unit
systematic sound meaning correspondence
cannot be further divided without losing the sound meaning correspondence

Question 3

Free morpheme

Answer 3

can stand alone

Question 4

Bound morpheme

Answer 4

cannot stand alone

Question 5

Root

Answer 5

“core” meaning of a word

Question 6

Affixes

Answer 6

grammatical or peripheral morphemes added to a base

Question 7

Base

Answer 7

word to which affixes are attached

Question 8

Lexical categories

Answer 8

part of speech

Question 9

Allomorph

Answer 9

different forms of a single morpheme

Question 10

Derivational affix

Answer 10

changes the core meaning of a word

Question 11

Inflectional affix

Answer 11

small meaning changes. can be used to create new words

Question 12

Regularizaton

Answer 12

driving out exceptions by using common knowledge

Question 13

Mental lexicon

Answer 13

memorized, arbitrary, and unpredictable

Question 14

Mental grammar

Answer 14

creative, predictable, and systematically generated