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Morphemes

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The smallest units of language that carry meaning

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Form

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What a word sounds like when spoken

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Meaning

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The meaning of a word (cat and dog cannot be used interchangeably)

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Lexical categories

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Parts of speech

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Open lexical categories

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Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

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Closed lexical categories

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Pronouns, determiners (a, the, this, your), prepositions, conjunctions (and, or, but)

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Derivational morphemes

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Changes a word’s lexical category or meaning

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Inflectional morphemes

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The creation of different grammatical forms of a word

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If it changes the part of speech, it must be derivational/inflectional

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Derivational

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If it is at the beginning of a word, it must be derivational/inflectional

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Derivational

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If it indicated grammatically relevant information, such as person, number, gender, or tense, it must be derivational/inflectional

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Inflectional

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Free morphemes

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Can be used as words themselves

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Bound morphemes

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Cannot stand alone; must be attached to something else

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Content morphemes

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Carries semantic content; refers to something out in the world

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Function morphemes

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Contains primarily grammatically relevant information

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Content words are

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Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

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Function words are

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Determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions

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Morphology

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Area of linguistics associated with the formation of words and study of morphemes

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The 8 inflectional morphemes

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-s, -s’, -ed (2), -ing, -en, -er (comparison), -est

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Homophonous morphemes

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Morphemes that are the same but have a different meaning
-er (colder, inflectional) vs. (teacher, derivational)
-ing (running shoes, derivational) vs. (he is running, inflectional)

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Compounding

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Forming a new word from independent words rather than affixes (girlfriend, textbook, air-conditioner, lifeguard chair)

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Affixation

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Adding an affix to a word (Sara’s, Discover, Undomesticated)

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Reduplication

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Forming a new word by doubling an entire free morpheme (total reduplication) or part of it (partial reduplication) (bye bye, mama)

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Alternations

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A morpheme-internal modification that results in a change of meaning (man/men, bind/bound, foot/feet, ring/rung)

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Suppletion
When a root has one or more inflected forms that are phonetically unrelated (is/was, go/went, are/were)
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Open lexical categories
Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs
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Closed lexical categories
Conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, determiners
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Allomorphs
A unit that varies phonetically but has the same meaning (malign/malignant, divide/divisible)
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Allomorphs of the present tense/ plural morpheme
[s], [z], [əz]
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Allomorphs of the past tense/plural morpheme
[t], [d], [əd]
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Allomorphs of in-
[im] (before labials [p], [b], [m]) [il] (before l) [iɹ] (before r) [iŋ] (before velars [k], [g]) [in] (elsewhere, before vowels and other consonants)
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Root
The free morpheme or bound root in a word that contributes most semantic content to the word, and to which affixes can attach
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Stem
The base, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which some affix is added.
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Word order
The order of the syntactic constituents in a language (ex. SVO)
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Free word order
A language in which any word order is grammatically correct, however there is usually a dominant word order that writers default to
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Co-occurence
The set of syntactic properties that determines which expressions may or have to co-occur with some other expressions in a sentence
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Subject
The main person/thing being discussed
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Direct object
The NP denoting a person/thing that is the recipient of the action in a transitive verb (ex. The dog in Jimmy fed the dog)
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Indirect object
A NP referring to someone/thing that is affected by the action of a transitive verb; receives the direct object (ex. She gave HIM the address)
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Adverbial
Phrase that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb (surprisingly well, right here, during the week)
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Argument
A linguistic expression that must occur in a sentence if some other expression occurs as well. (Ex. An apple in Sally devoured an apple)
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Complement
Non-subject verb argument (ex. The soup in the soup tastes good)
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Adjuncts
Expressions whose occurrence is purely optional (ex. On the table in the cat was sleeping on the table)
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Transitive verb
A verb that requires one or more objects to complete its meaning (turn on, push)
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Intransitive verb
A verb whose context does not entail a direct object (fly, listen)
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Ditransitive verb
A verb that requires two NP complements (gave, sell, tell)
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Sentential complement verbs
A verb that requires a clausal argument (thought in sally thought bob liked her)
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Embedded clause
A clause in the middle of another clause to give more information
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What makes a sentence?
A subject and verb or a NP and VP
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Meaning embeds 2 terms:
Sense (a description) and reference (the particular entities in real life to which the expression refers to)
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Hypernym
Encompasses different groups of a certain field (ex. Fruit)
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Hyponym
The specific categories of a hypernym (ex. Apples, bananas, grapes)
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Hyponyms are
Sister terms
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Complementary antonyms
Straightforward; one or the other (married/unmarried, alive/dead, win/lose)
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Gradable antonyms
Degrees between 2 antonyms (wet/dry, old/young)
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Reverses
One antonym reverses the other (put together/take apart, expand/contract, ascend/descend)
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Converses
One antonym requires the other (lend/borrow, send/receive, employer/employee, over/under)
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Meaning relationships encompasses
Synonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms, sister terms, antonyms
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What are suprasegmentals?
It is the phonetic characteristics of speech sound (length, tone, stress, intonation)
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Co-articulation
Changes in speech articulation of the current phoneme due to neighboring speech
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Auxiliary verbs
Verbs that support the sentence’s main verb so as to express tense or mood (have in I have finished)
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Monophtong
A simple vowel composed of a single configuration in the vocal chords (æ, o, u)
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Diphthong
A complex vowel composed of a sequence of two different configurations in the vocal chords (aI, eI)
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Phonotactic constraints
Restriction on possible combinations of sounds
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Ways of handling phonotactic constraints
Dropping or deleting one of the consonants or inserting a vowel to separate consonants are examples of ways to handle phonotactic constrains
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Phonemes vs allophones
Phonemes are a set of sounds and allophones are phonetic variations of the same phoneme 
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Contrastive distribution
Replacing one sound with the other in a word can change the words meaning (p and p^h in hindi have different meanings, e.g. [p^hel] is fruit and [pel] is moment) (bit and pit)
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Non-contrastive
Interchanging two sounds does not result in a change of meaning
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Aspiration
A puff of air transcribed with a super scripted [h] 
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Complementary distribution
Sounds in a language that are never found in the same phonetic environment. When sounds are in complementary distribution you will not find a minimal pair (spot, pot)
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Sounds that are in complementary distribution are
Allophones of the same phoneme (ex. t and t^h)
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Minimal pair
Two words with different meanings whose pronunciations differ by exactly one sound
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Allophones of t
[t] stop [t^h] top [ʔ] kitten [ɾ] little
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Basic allophone
 The allophone with the broader distribution; the elsewhere allophone 
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Restricted allophone
The allophone that appears in a more limited set of phonetic environments; follows a specific rule
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Constituency tests
A test applied to a portion of a sentence to provide evidence about the constituent structure

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