Sonority Flashcards

(40 cards)

1
Q

Sonority scale

A

stops fricatives nasals liquids glides and vowels

SFNLG

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2
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how to make a sylable

A

identify nuclei, identify onsents “one consonent left of each nuclei” identify codsas
identify rhymes nucleus and coda.

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3
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adverbs

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modifies a verb adjective or other adverb

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constituency tests

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substitution, standalone, clefting

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subsititution

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replacing a statement as a proform eg,there, he she it they him her them, does so, so

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standalone

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q and a: must make sense, made only of underlined words, and must contain all information

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celfting

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put it was/is _____ that ____.

put the constituent in the first box and the rest of the information i nthe other.

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8
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use of constituency tests

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which words to group togehter

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9
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S ->

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NP (Aux) VP

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NP ->

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(Det) (AdjP) N (PP)

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VP

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V (NP) (PP) (Adv) (CP)

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12
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CP

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Comp S

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13
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PP

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P NP

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AdjP

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(Adv) Adj

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15
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complementizer

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an element that turns a sentance into a complement

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16
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lexical ambiguity

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due to a single word having more than one meaning

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17
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structural ambiguity

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differnt meanings due to differnt structures

18
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deep structure

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the basic word order

19
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s structure

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the structure that gets pronounced

20
Q

Move aux

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aux goes before the subject

21
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do support

A

aux is inserted

22
Q

what is a t

A

a trace (t) allows the d structure to still be seen

23
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move wh

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moves wh questions to comp position

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passive transformation

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delete NP, add auxiliary verb to be, change verb form to pp. Move compleemnt NP to subject position

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underlying phonemes
general phonemes
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backformation
removal of affix ex
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derivational affixes
create or derive a new word
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inflectional affixes
create a differnt form of the same word
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compounding
adding two free morphemes ex. greenhouse
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endocentric vs exocentric
endo is a subtype exo is not
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reduplication
repeating the word
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suppletion
replace a morpheme for conttrast go vs went
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conversion
another synatactic catergory ex v to n
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clipping
shortening a word
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blending
mixing words
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acronyms
initial letters and pronuncing them
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eponyms
based from peoples names
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head final vs head initial
complement first or last
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complementizers
turn clauess into dependent ones or subordinates ex. if, to , while, since, because, although, if, when, so that, as such, before, after, until
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aux verb
helps other verbs ex. his, be do, have ,could