sac 1 (intro and metalanguage)

Question 1

what are the 5 subsystems of language

Answer 1

semantics, discourse, syntax, morphology and lexicology, and phonetics and phonology.

Question 2

phonetics & phonology

Answer 2

study of sounds. sound system of a language, the sounds a language speech makes.

Question 3

morphology

Answer 3

structure of words. how words are formed, lets up group them in classes, how they change meaning for grammatical purposes

Question 4

syntax

Answer 4

phrase, clause and sentence structure. how words are arranged to form different sentences.

Question 5

discourse

Answer 5

sequence of language bigger than a sentence. concerned with the linguistic features of both written and spoken language

Question 6

semantics

Answer 6

meaning of language. analyses sentences and words meaning and relation between them as well as how meaning can be changed

Question 7

prosodic features

Answer 7

pitch, stress, volume, tempo, intonation

Question 8

4 sentence functions

Answer 8

declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative

Question 9

declarative sentence & how to identify

Answer 9

aims to be informative or make a statement. SVO subject verb object/adverbial

Question 10

interrogative sentence & types

Answer 10

asks questions. first type; yes no questions. second type; ‘wh’ questions

Question 11

imperative sentence & how to identify

Answer 11

to give orders. begins with a verb. may have an exclamation

Question 12

exclamative sentence

Answer 12

to express emotion. identified by being an exclamation and not only a question or a declarative sentence.

Question 13

stress

Answer 13

putting emphasis on a specific syllable or word to change the meaning of the word or sentence

Question 14

pitch

Answer 14

height of auditory tones, high or low. changes depending on the meaning or emotion we wish to express

Question 15

intonation

Answer 15

pattern of pitch. the rythym and rising and falling of our pitch.

Question 16

tempo

Answer 16

the speed or pace we speak at. indicates the emotion of sentences

Question 17

volume

Answer 17

how loudly or quietly we speak. how we change the volume of our voice depending on the conversation

Question 18

phonological patterns

Answer 18

alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme

Question 19

2 morphemes. explain both

Answer 19

Free morpheme; words that can stand on their own, the independent or root word
bound morpheme; cannot stand independently, attached to bound morpheme, affixes

Question 20

inflectional morpheme

Answer 20

do not change the meaning of word

Question 21

derivation morpheme

Answer 21

changes the meaning of word

Question 22

list affixes

Answer 22

suffix, prefix, infix, circumfix

Question 23

clauses

Answer 23

clauses are units of words that contain a subject and a verb that can sometimes stand alone as a sentence.

Question 24

sentence types

Answer 24

• compound sentences (two or more clause, joined with coordinating conjunction)
• complex sentence(contains a subordinate clause and independent clause, joined with subordinating conjunction)

Question 25

lexicology

Answer 25

words in a language, vocabulary. meaning of words and how they interact with each other

Question 26

coordinating conjunctions

Answer 26

``` connect clauses or sentences with equal importance to each other F - for A - and N - nor B - but O -or Y - yet S - so ```

Question 27

main/independent clause

Answer 27

clause that can stand on its own as a sentence

Question 28

subordinate/dependant clause

Answer 28

begins with subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun

Question 29

subordinating conjunction

Answer 29

a conjunction that introduces a subordinating clause

Question 30

language registers

Answer 30

formal informal neutral

Question 31

phrase

Answer 31

a group of words with grammatical relation to each other that do not make a complete sentence. They do not have either a verb or a subject

Question 32

denotation

Answer 32

definition of a word that would be found in the dictionary

Question 33

connotation

Answer 33

idea or feeling a word invokes additional to its primal meaning

Question 34

distinctive features of written language

Answer 34

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