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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.

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Which example illustrates an adverb clause?

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Which sentence type is characterized by one independent clause?

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What is the primary function of an embedded clause?

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Which sentence contains a dependent clause?

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

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

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

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

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

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What is the main task of Acoustic Phonetics?

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

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How are consonants produced compared to vowels?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What is the study of morphemes and words referred to?

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What characterizes voiced consonant sounds?

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Which of the following describes a nasal consonant?

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What does the coda refer to in syllable structure?

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

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Which of the following represents an affricate sound?

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What is the nucleus of a syllable usually composed of?

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

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What is a characteristic feature of a glide consonant?

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What distinguishes homonyms from polysemes?

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Which of the following pairs represent gradable antonyms?

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What is the correct definition of hyponymy?

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Which type of antonymy describes a relationship from opposite perspectives?

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What is true about synonymy in language?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dependent Clause

A group of words containing a subject and verb, but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.

Adjective Clause

A dependent clause that modifies a noun or pronoun. It tells what kind or which.

Adverb Clause

A dependent clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb. It tells when, where, why, how, or to what extent.

Embedded Clause

A dependent clause placed inside a main (independent) clause.

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Simple Sentence

A sentence with only one independent clause.

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Compound Sentence

A sentence with two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS).

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Complex Sentence

A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clause.

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Compound-Complex Sentence

A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clause.

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Independent Clause

A group of words with a subject and a verb that can stand alone as a complete sentence.

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Subject + Predicate

Basic sentence structure: who or what is doing the action (subject) and the action itself (predicate).

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Phonetics

The scientific study of human speech sounds

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Phoneme

Abstract minimal sound unit that distinguishes words in language

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Phone

Concrete physical sound (realization of phoneme)

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Allophone

Non-distinctive variant of a phoneme (doesn't change meaning)

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Minimal Pair Technique

Words differing by one phoneme in the same position, e.g., 'dad'/'mad'

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Articulatory Phonetics

Study of how speech sounds are produced

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Acoustic Phonetics

Study of speech sound transmission as sound waves

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Auditory Phonetics

Study of how humans perceive speech sounds

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IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

A transcription system for transcribing speech sounds

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Vowel

Speech sound produced by shaping the oral cavity

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Monophthong

Single vowel sound

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Diphthong

Complex two-vowel sound, gliding together

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Triphthong

Complex three-vowel sound, gliding together

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Consonant

Speech sound produced with partial restrictions in the vocal tract

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Voiced Consonant

A consonant sound produced with vocal cord vibration.

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Voiceless Consonant

A consonant sound produced without vocal cord vibration.

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Plosive/Stop

A consonant sound produced by completely blocking airflow and then releasing it.

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Fricative

A consonant sound produced by forcing air through a narrow channel, creating friction.

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Affricate

A consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow, then releasing it with friction.

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Nasal

A consonant sound produced with air flowing through the nose.

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Liquid

A consonant sound produced with some obstruction, but air flows relatively freely.

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Glide

A consonant sound always followed by a vowel.

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Syllable

A unit of pronunciation consisting of one vowel sound.

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Onset

The consonant or consonant blend before the vowel sound in a syllable.

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Rime

A syllable's vowel and the consonants following it.

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Nucleus

The vowel sound in a syllable.

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Coda

The consonants following the vowel in a syllable.

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Phonology

The study of the sound patterns in a language.

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Consonant Blend

Two or more consonant sounds together in a word.

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Digraph

Two or more consonants in a word that together represent a single sound.

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Sibilant

A hissing sound, most often a fricative consonant.

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Allophone

Variations of a phoneme (speech sound) due to different positions in the words

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Aspirated sound

A sound produced with a puff of breath, often initial voiceless stops.

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Unaspirated sound

A sound produced without a puff of breath.

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Phonological Conditioning

How sound changes based on the sounds around it and their places of articulation in the word.

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Morphophonemic Process

Changes in sound as words/morphemes combine or are modified.

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Assimilation

A sound changes to become more similar to a nearby sound.

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Dissimilation

Sounds become less alike.

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Deletion

A sound is removed in certain contexts/speeds of speech

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Insertion

Adding a sound or syllable into a word.

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Metathesis

Reordering/reversing of sounds or segments in words.

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Morphology

The study of word formation and morphemes.

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Morpheme

The smallest meaningful unit in a language.

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Homonyms

Words that sound the same but have different meanings.

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Polysemes

Words with related but different meanings, often connected through metaphorical extension.

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Heteronyms

Words spelled the same but pronounced differently and have different meanings.

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Synonymy

Words with the same or similar meanings.

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Antonymy

Words with opposite meanings.

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Binary Antonyms

Antonyms that represent two mutually exclusive or exhaustive options.

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Gradable Antonyms

Antonyms that represent points along a spectrum or continuum.

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Converse Antonyms

Antonyms showing reciprocal relationships.

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Hyponymy

A more specific word (hyponym) is related to a more general word (hypernym).

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Empty Morpheme

A morpheme present in a word's form but carrying no inherent meaning.

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Category Extension

Changing a morpheme's grammatical role (part of speech).

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Derivation

Adding a derivational affix to create a new word and altering its grammatical function.

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Back Formation

Creating a new word by removing a mistaken affix, changing its grammatical form.

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Clipped Form

A shorter version of an existing word, keeping the same syntactic role.

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Compounding

Combining two or more free morphemes into one new word.

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Blending

Combining parts of two existing words to make a new one.

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Root Creation

Creating a new word with no connection to pre-existing morphemes.

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Proper Name

Using a proper name as a word.

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Folk Etymology

Changing a word based on misguided resemblance to a familiar word.

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Acronym

Forming a word from the initial letters of a phrase.

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Initialism/Alphabetism

Using initial letters of a phrase, but each initial read individually.

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Abbreviation

A shortened version of a word or phrase; often containing initial letters or syllables.

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Suppletion

Replacing one form with a completely different, unrelated form due to grammatical changes.

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Syntax

The study of sentence structure and phrases.

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Left-to-Right Ordering

Rules guiding the order of words within a phrase, dictated by phrase structure.

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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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