test 2 | LING 2100 - The Study of Language, Quizzes of Linguistics

Download test 2 | LING 2100 - The Study of Language and more Quizzes Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Phoneme DEFINITION 1 mental representation of a sound not actually a sound represented between / / ex: // <--restricted, occurs only at end of syllable TERM 2 Minimal Pair DEFINITION 2 A pair of 2 words with different meanings that differ by only one sound in the same position ex: hat [haet] and had [haed] t and d TERM 3 Free Variation DEFINITION 3 2 sounds that occur in overlapping environment but does not change meaning in their respective words ex: [soup] and [soup'] TERM 4 Syllable Structure Chart DEFINITION 4 ...........Syllable Onset..............Rhyme CCC........Nucleus.....Coda ......................V...........CCC TERM 5 Is a phoneme a sound? DEFINITION 5 No TERM 6 Complementary Distribution DEFINITION 6 2 sounds that don't appear in the same place or affect meaning=allophones of same phoneme prediction is possible ex: p/p^h [spaet] spat [phaet] pat [spul] spool [phul] pool [p] appears after consonant [s] while [p^h] appears at beginning of syllables, but never after [s] TERM 7 Isolating Language DEFINITION 7 Language in which almost every word consists of a single free morpheme ex: Chines TERM 8 Homophonous Morpheme DEFINITION 8 Morphemes that sound the same but have different meanings ex: bear (verb) and bear (noun animal) TERM 9 Free Morphemes DEFINITION 9 Can stand alone as independent words ex: clock, sick, girl TERM 10 Bound Morphemes DEFINITION 10 Always attach to other morphemes, cannot stand alone ex: -ly, -ing, -y, pre- (prefix, suffix, infix, etc)