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What do you learn when you learn a language?
- -TACIT knowledge (not explicit)
- -Knowledge of symbols at different levels that combine productively.
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What are the main parts of understanding the levels of combining language?
- -Phonology
- -Morphology
- -Syntax
- -Semantics and Pragmatics
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What is phonology?
Knowledge of sound structure for a certain language
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Describe the phonological features.
- 1) Voicing- whether or not folds in vocal tract vibrate.
- 2) Point of articulation-where in the vocal tract air is constricted (labial, dental, alveolar, palatal velar)
- 3) Manner of articulation-the way air flow is altered(stop, fricative, affricate, nasal, liquid, glide)
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How are vowels distinguished?
By the position of the tongue on two dimensions; high to low and front to back
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What is a morpheme?
the smallest unit of meaning
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What is the difference betweene free morphemes and bound morphemes?
Free morphemes can stand alone (ex. help), while bound morphemes must be combined with others (ex. ful).
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What is the difference between inflectional rules and dervational rules.
Inflectional rules allows us to add on to a word or alter it by number or tense. Derivational rules deal with how we add on to and combine morphemes to change the form (verb vs. noun) or the meaning.
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