Linguistics Phonetics Overview
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What does an adjective clause do in a sentence?

  • Modifies a noun or pronoun (correct)
  • Introduces a dependent clause
  • Modifies a verb only
  • Connects two independent clauses

    • Which type of sentence contains both independent and dependent clauses?

  • Fragment
  • Complex sentence (correct)
  • Run-on sentence
  • Simple sentence

    • What type of clause modifies an adverb?

  • Adjective clause
  • Adverb clause (correct)
  • Embedded clause
  • Compound clause

    • Identify the correct structure of a compound-complex sentence.

    <p>IC + IC + DC</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which example illustrates an adverb clause?

    <p>The report was due after the meeting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which sentence type is characterized by one independent clause?

    <p>Simple</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary function of an embedded clause?

    <p>To provide additional information within a sentence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which sentence contains a dependent clause?

    <p>She dances when the music plays.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the abstract minimal sound unit in linguistics that distinguishes different words in a particular language?

    <p>Phoneme</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which technique involves words that are almost identical except for one sound in the same position?

    <p>Minimal Pair Technique</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which branch of phonetics focuses on how speech sounds are produced using vocal organs?

    <p>Articulatory Phonetics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do we call vowel sounds that glide together, combining a diphthong and a monophthong?

    <p>Triphthong</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following statements is true about all vowel sounds?

    <p>All vowel sounds are voiced.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main task of Acoustic Phonetics?

    <p>Describe the physical properties of speech sounds as they travel</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT one of the categories of sounds in phonetics?

    <p>Phonon</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How are consonants produced compared to vowels?

    <p>With partial restrictions of the vocal tract</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What occurs when two or more consonants form a single sound?

    <p>Digraph</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which process describes the phenomenon of a sound becoming more like a nearby sound?

    <p>Assimilation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the smallest meaningful unit in a language?

    <p>Lexeme</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following processes modifies a word by removing a weak segment in rapid speech?

    <p>Deletion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What describes the systematic variations of a phoneme based on its position in a word?

    <p>Allophone</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Identify the type of sound characterized by a hissing quality, commonly recognized as a fricative.

    <p>Sibilant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In morphophonemic processes, which term refers to the reordering of segments within a word?

    <p>Metathesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the study of morphemes and words referred to?

    <p>Morphology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What characterizes voiced consonant sounds?

    <p>They are produced with vibrating vocal cords.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following describes a nasal consonant?

    <p>A sound produced with airflow primarily through the nose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the coda refer to in syllable structure?

    <p>Any consonant following the rime/rhyme.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In place and manner of articulation, what type of consonant is a [k] sound?

    <p>Plosive/Stop</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following represents an affricate sound?

    <p>[t∫] [dz]</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nucleus of a syllable usually composed of?

    <p>A vowel, or sometimes a consonant sonorant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of these is NOT a type of consonant sound listed in the chart?

    <p>Sonorant</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic feature of a glide consonant?

    <p>It cannot occur at the end of words.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What distinguishes homonyms from polysemes?

    <p>Homonyms are identical in form and sound, while polysemes have a shared meaning extended metaphorically.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following pairs represent gradable antonyms?

    <p>Big and small</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the correct definition of hyponymy?

    <p>A linguistic relationship where one word is a specific instance of a broader category.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of antonymy describes a relationship from opposite perspectives?

    <p>Converse antonyms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is true about synonymy in language?

    <p>There are likely no absolute synonyms in any language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which word formation process involves changing a word by adding an affix that alters its syntactic category?

    <p>Derivation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the process of creating a new word by combining parts of two existing words called?

    <p>Blending</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which word formation process is characterized by the removal of a perceived affix to form a new word?

    <p>Back Formation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is called when a new word is formed from a proper name?

    <p>Proper Name</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which word formation process involves the coalescence of two separate words into one?

    <p>Compounding</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which process is a word formed by using the initial letters of a phrase, read as an entire word?

    <p>Acronym</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of morpheme is present in form but has no actual meaning?

    <p>Empty Morpheme</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which process involves creating a new word with a completely novel morpheme?

    <p>Root Creation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Linguistics - Phonetics

    • Phonetics is the scientific study of language
    • Phonetics is the science of human speech sounds
    • Three categories of sounds:
      • Phoneme (abstract unit to distinguish meaning)
      • Phone (concrete; human sound—physical realization of phoneme)
      • Allophone (non-distinctive; variants of phoneme)
    • Phoneme - abstract minimal sound unit of a particular language; capable of distinguishing different words
    • Minimal Pair Technique – words that are almost identical except for ONE SOUND in the SAME POSITION (one phonemic difference)
      • Initial: /dad/-/mad/
      • Vowel: /dad/-/did/
      • Final: /dad/-/dab/
    • Branches of Phonetics:
      • Articulatory Phonetics (production)
        • Oldest branch; examines articulatory organs in speech sound production
      • Acoustic Phonetics (transmission)
        • Deals with the physical properties of speech sounds as they travel through the air (sound waves)
      • Auditory Phonetics (perception)
        • Examines how humans perceive speech sounds through the ear

    Phonetics Tasks

    • Notation: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - transcription system with symbols for speech sounds
    • Description: Characterization of speech sounds

    Classification of Phoneme (Segment)

    • Vowel - Produced by shaping the oral cavity to give the sound particular color or timbre
      • All vowel sounds are voiced
    • Monophthong: One vowel sound
    • Diphthong :Two-vowel sound
    • Triphthong: Three-vowel sound that glides together
    • Consonant - Produced with partial restrictions of the vocal tract
      • Consonant sounds can be voiced or voiceless

    Phonology

    • Phonology is the study of sound systems of language and the pronunciation rules.

    • Key Terms:

      • Syllable: A phonological unit consisting of one sound
      • Onset: Consonants or consonant blends before the rime
      • Rime: Consists of a nucleus (usually a vowel) and consonant following it
      • Nucleus: Usually a vowel (sometimes a consonant sonorant)
      • Coda: any consonant following the rime/rhyme
      • Blend: Two or more consonants; combined to form one sound, e.g., "bl" in "blend"
      • Digraph: Two or more consonants; combined to form one sound, e.g., "sh" in "ship"
      • Sibilant :Fricative sounds that have a hissing quality, like "s" or "sh".

    • Allophones: Systematic variations of a phoneme—properties of a phoneme vary according to its position in a word (e.g., aspirated/un-aspirated)

    • Phonological Conditioning: Phonological differences between allomorphs of a morpheme often influenced by their phonological environment

    • Morphomenic Process:

      • Assimilation
      • Dissimilation

    Morphology

    • Morphology is the study of word formation.

    • Morphemes

      • Smallest meaningful unit of language.
      • Cannot be divided without losing meaning.

    • Lexeme: Basic unit of a word/root word/base form

    • Syntactic word -an inflected word.

    • Orthographic word: how a word is composed of alphabetical graphemes.

    • Words are composed of one or more morphemes.

    • Morphs: physical realizations of these morphemes

    • Lexical Morphemes: Have meaning in themselves (content words). Ex. nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs (NAVA). These are free morphemes.

    • Grammatical Morphemes: Have no meaning in themselves (function words); ex. prepositions, articles, conjunctions. These are bound morphemes that cannot stand on their own.

    • Free Morphemes: Can stand alone as words (e.g., talk, in, sing)

    • Bound Morphemes: Cannot stand alone and are affixes (e.g., prefixes, suffixes).

    • Inflectional Morphemes: Suffixes that change the grammatical function of a word, without changing its part of speech (eight inflectional affixes)

    • Derivational Morphemes: change the meaning and/or part of speech and can be prefixes or suffixes (infinite number).

    Syntax

    • Syntax is the study of sentence structure and phrases
    • Left-to-Right Ordering: Items within phrases are ordered based on principles encoded in phrase structure rules
    • Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) Ordering

    Semantics

    • Semantics is the study of word meaning
    • Lexical Decomposition: Method of representing meaning of a word in terms of semantic features.
    • Semantic features allow characterizing senses of potentially infinite set of words with a finite number of semantic features.
    • Three Areas of Semantics
      • Sense: Study of meaning
      • Reference: Relation between word and object
      • Truth: Semantic conditions

    Pragmatics

    • Pragmatics studies language use in specific situations.
    • Context affects language use.
    • Implicature: Implied proposition; not stated explicitly.
    • Cooperative Principle: Speakers and listeners work together to make communication effective
    • Maxims of Conversation
      • Maxim of Quality: Truthfulness
      • Maxim of Quantity: Appropriate amount of information
      • Maxim of Relation: Relevance
      • Maxim of Manner: Clarity and organization

    Speech Acts

    • Speech Acts: Actions performed through utterances.
    • Locutionary Act: Act of saying something
    • Illocutionary Act: Intended action behind the utterance
    • Perlocutionary Act: Reaction of the listener
    • Direct Speech Act: Syntactic structure matches illocutionary force Example: "Keep quiet." (imperative)
    • Indirect Speech Act: Syntactic form doesn't match illocutionary force. Example: "You might give me a hand with this." (request)

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