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Linguistics
Final exam
22
English
Undergraduate 1
03/03/2009

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Term
language
Definition
a system that relates sound and meanings in an arbitrary fashion
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grammar
Definition
a system of linguistic elements and rules
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competence
Definition
What we know when we know a language; the unconscious knowledge that a speaker of a language has about her or his native language
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performance
Definition
the observable use of a language. The actualization of one's linguistic competence. Utterances of native speakers
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descriptive grammar
Definition
describing actual language use (rules)
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Prescriptive Grammar
Definition
usage/social conventions/etiquette
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Arbitrariness
Definition
in relation to language, this term is used to refer to the fact that a word's meaning is not predictable form it's linguistic form, nor is it's form dictated by it's meaning
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Discreetness
Definition
speech sounds can be segmented into individual, identifiable pieces of sound that recur
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Articulatory Phonetics
Definition
a study of how human beings produce sound
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two ways to classify vowels
Definition
high and low; front and back
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three ways to classify consonants
Definition
voicing, nasality, and manner of articulation or how the air flow is obstructive.
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etic
Definition
what an outsider sees in a culture
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emic
Definition
an insider's perspective- (the dumbest native speaker will know more than the most intelligent outsider)
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phoneme
Definition
a sound that is unpredictable- it makes a difference in meaning (must be included in the alphabet)
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allophone
Definition
any sound that we can explain- a predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme.
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word-
Definition
there is no acceptable definition
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morpheme
Definition
the smallest phonological unit that recurs with constant meaning
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bound morphemes
Definition
they are affixes and must be attached to free morphemes
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free morphemes
Definition
can be used by themselves
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inflectional affixes
Definition
tell the case, tense, spanish gender, and number
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derivational affixes
Definition
change the meaning and syntactic class
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how do you decide what the phonemes are in a particular language?
Definition
1. describe suspicious pair
2. determine the environment
3. Form a hypothesis
4. test it out!
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