Morphology

Question 1

are the smallest meaningful units of linguistic meaning or grammatical function

Answer 1

morphemes

Question 2

bases are usually

Answer 2

free

Question 3

affixes are usually

Answer 3

bound

Question 4

affixes consist of ___ and ___

Answer 4

prefixes and suffixes

Question 5

suffixes can be ___ or ___

Answer 5

derivational or inflectional

Question 6

do not change part of speech, provide grammatical function

Answer 6

inflectional

Question 7

change part of speech and/ or meaning

Answer 7

derivational

Question 8

focuses on the sound of words and the differences among them

Answer 8

allomorph

Question 9

homonyms consists of ___ and ___

Answer 9

homophones and heteronyms

Question 10

words that are pronounced the same and may have the same or different spelling

Answer 10

homophones

Question 11

words that have the same spelling but different pronunciation and meaning

Answer 11

heteronyms

Question 12

two or more words that merge together to create one word all together, consist of free bases, can be spelled as one word, as separate, or hyphenated words

Answer 12

compound words

Question 13

the branch of linguistics that deals with the structure of words

Answer 13

morphology

Question 14

stem + suffix and/ or + prefix Ex: re + write + rewrite

Answer 14

affixation

Question 15

no affix but still change in meaning and category

Answer 15

conversion or functional shift

Question 16

words that are pronounced like words but stand for something else

Answer 16

acronym

Question 17

using letter initials and pronouncing them as letters

Answer 17

alphabetism

Question 18

clipping or shortening words

Answer 18

abbreviation

Question 19

complete or partial doubling of an entire morpheme

Answer 19

reduplication

Question 20

two words combined together

Answer 20

blend

Question 21

words derived from proper names or places

Answer 21

eponyms

Question 22

invented from scratch

Answer 22

coinage