Introduction to Linguistics
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Which of the following is classified as a voiceless consonant?

  • m
  • p (correct)
  • v
  • g

Which term describes consonants produced with a continuous airflow?

  • Stops
  • Fricatives (correct)
  • Affricates
  • Nasal phones

What type of articulation involves complete closure in the oral cavity or glottis?

  • Stops (correct)
  • Nasal phones
  • Fricatives
  • Affricates

Which of the following represents an alveopalatal consonant?

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Which of the following vowel sounds is a short vowel as per IPA?

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Which characteristic distinguishes strident fricatives from non-stridents?

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Which of the following sounds is classified as a voiced consonant?

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What is the process called that involves creating new lexemes by changing the form of a word without adding affixes?

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Which of the following compounds have the same meaning?

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Which term refers to words borrowed from another language?

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Which of the following examples is associated with malapropism?

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What is an example of an eponym?

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What process involves the insertion of a segment within an existing string of segments?

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Which of the following represents the correct definition of a morpheme?

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Which type of morpheme is defined as a base or root word that can stand alone?

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What phenomenon describes the reordering of phonetic segments to make them easier to articulate?

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Which of the following pairs wields a common derivational morpheme?

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In morphological terms, what does derivational morphology primarily accomplish?

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Which of the following processes can lead to vowel articulation moving towards a central position?

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What is the primary focus of morphology as a linguistic study?

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How are function words classified in terms of their role in language?

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Which term is used to describe morphemes that cannot stand alone but serve a function in combination?

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What characterizes tense vowels compared to lax vowels?

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Which type of intonation indicates that a conversation is not yet complete?

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What happens to the vowel /ae/ in unstressed syllables in Canadian English?

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What does the term 'coarticulation' refer to in speech production?

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Which process describes the change of dental or alveolar stops to a flap articulation between vowels?

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What is a feature of syllabic liquids and nasals?

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How is nasalization typically marked in phonetic transcription?

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What does the term 'dissimilation' mean in the context of phonology?

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In phonology, what is described as a morpheme?

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What is the primary purpose of infixes in morphological processes?

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Which morphological process involves reducing an existing word to a shorter form without changing its meaning?

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In morphological processes, what does the term 'derivation' specifically refer to?

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What distinguishes a 'circumfix' from other affixes?

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Which of the following examples best illustrates the process of back formation?

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Which of the following terms is an example of reduplication?

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How does vowel modification function in morphological processes?

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What is the key characteristic of blending in word formation?

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What does the term 'modification' refer to in morphological processes?

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Which suffix is associated with indicating a quality or state?

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Voiced Consonants

Consonants produced with vocal cord vibration.

Voiceless Consonants

Consonants produced without vocal cord vibration.

Bilabial Consonants

Consonants produced using both lips.

Stop Consonants

Consonants produced by completely blocking airflow in the mouth.

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Fricative Consonants

Consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel in the mouth.

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Short Vowel Sounds

Vowel sounds with short durations that are often used in speaking naturally in the English language

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Manners of Articulation

The ways in which sounds are produced in speech, including stops, fricatives, and affricates. Also covers oral, nasal, and strident sounds.

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Aspirated/Unaspirated Stops

Voiceless consonant sounds produced with a puff of air.

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Liquids (l, r)

Consonants that allow air to flow relatively freely through the mouth.

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Vowels

Speech sounds produced by varying the shape of the vocal tract.

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Tense Vowels

Vowels produced with greater vocal tract constriction.

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Lax Vowels

Vowels with less vocal tract constriction compared to tense vowels.

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Schwa

Reduced vowel sound, often occurring in unstressed syllables (e.g., "about").

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Coarticulation

Articulatory adjustments that occur during spoken phrases.

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Assimilation

Process where one sound adapts to the sound that follows or precedes it.

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Content Words

Words that possess conceptual meaning (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs).

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Function words

Words that convey grammatical relations, such as determiners, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, modals, qualifiers, and question words.

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Deletion

A process that removes a segment within a word, often due to rapid speech.

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Epenthesis

Inserting a segment within an existing string of segments, altering the pronunciation of words to make articulation easier.

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Metathesis

The reordering of segments within a word, leading to a different order of sounds.

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Vowel Reduction

Vowels becoming more central in pronunciation when unstressed.

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Morpheme

The smallest meaningful unit of language.

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Morphology

The study of the internal structure of words and how they are formed.

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Free morpheme

A morpheme with an independent meaning, able to stand alone as a word.

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Bound Morpheme

A morpheme that must be attached to another morpheme to have meaning.

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Compound Words

Words formed by combining two or more existing words, often with a new meaning.

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Conversion

Forming a new word by changing its grammatical function without adding affixes. For example, 'bottle' (noun) becomes 'to bottle' (verb).

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Eponyms

Words derived from the name of a person or place. Examples include 'atlas' (from the Greek mythological figure Atlas) and 'boycott' (from Charles Boycott).

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Malapropisms

Humorous misuses of words due to confusion or misunderstanding, creating an unintended meaning.

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Borrowing (Loan Words)

Words adopted from another language, often due to cultural influence. Examples include 'balcony', 'opera', and 'spaghetti' from Italian.

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Lexical Gap

Words that follow the rules of word formation but don't exist in the language.

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Morphological Processes

How words change their meaning by adding or changing parts to their stems.

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Affixation

Adding bound morphemes (prefixes or suffixes) to word stems to create new words.

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Prefix

A bound morpheme attached before a word stem.

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Suffix

A bound morpheme attached after a word stem.

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Infix

A bound morpheme inserted inside a word stem.

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Reduplication

Repeating all or part of a word to create a new one.

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Circumfix

Affixes attached in two parts to a root.

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Ablaut

Changing the vowel within a root to change meaning or tense.

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Derivation

Forming new words by adding derivational affixes to base words.

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Study Notes

Introduction to Linguistics

  • Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, observing how it's used, developed, and evolves.
  • Key figures in linguistics include G. Duffy, S. Pit Corder, Jean Aitchison, and Fromkin.
  • Linguistics examines the nature of language, its acquisition by humans, and its functional role in society.

Core Areas of Linguistics

  • Phonetics and Phonology: Studies speech sounds, their production, and systems for combining them.
  • Syntax: Investigates the grammar and structure of a language.
  • Semantics: Focuses on the meaning of language.
  • Sociolinguistics: Explores how social factors influence language use and variation.
  • Psycholinguistics: Examines how the human mind learns and processes language.

Concepts of Grammar

  • Generality: All languages possess grammar, despite perceived differences.
  • Parity: All languages are equally complex and valid.
  • Universality: Key features, like the presence of contrasting sounds, are consistent across languages.
  • Mutability: Languages continually adapt and evolve over time through new words and phrase use.
  • Inaccessibility: Grammatical knowledge is mostly subconscious.

Phonetics and Phonology

  • Phonetics: Focuses on speech sounds, their physical properties, production, and perception.
    • Articulatory Phonetics: Looks at the production of speech sounds using the vocal tract.
    • Acoustic Phonetics: Studies the physical properties and characteristics of speech sounds.
    • Auditory Phonetics: Concentrates on how listeners receive and perceive speech sounds.
  • International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): A standardized representation of speech sounds, aiding in language description and comparison.
  • Segments individually identified sounds.
  • Sound-producing system details different components of vocal tract

Morphology

  • Morpheme: The smallest meaningful unit of language. Free morphemes have independent meaning, while bound morphemes cannot stand alone.
  • Prefixes: Affixes added before the root word. Examples, un-, pre-
  • Suffixes: Affixes added after the root word. Examples are -ing, -ed, -ful
  • Infixes: Affixes that are inserted within a word. Examples, -um-, -in-
  • Circumfixes: A combination of prefixes and suffixes. Examples, en-, en-, and -en, -en
  • Derivation: Forming new words by adding affixes.

Word Formation

  • Clipping: Creating new words by shortening existing ones. Examples, gator and gym
  • Coinage: Creating entirely new words. Examples, aspirin and zipper
  • Blending: Combining parts of two or more existing words into a new one. Examples, brunch and motel
  • Compunding: Forming new words by joining two or more existing words. Example, armchair and bedroom
  • Back-formation: Forming new words from existing ones by dropping a possible prefix or suffix. Example, donate/donation

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