Ling 106 morphology quiz
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 knowledge of sounds | phonetics |
| knowledge of sound patterns | phonology |
| knowledge of words | morphology |
| study of the structure of words and the rules/processes by which words are formed | morphology |
| noun, verb, preposition, article, adjective, adverb | syntactic category |
| mental dictionary | lexicon |
| what a word roots from | etymology |
| the spelling of a word | orthography |
| every word we know has a...? | lexical entry |
| all the words you know, and all of the information associated with the word | mental dictionary |
| what can our performance on the wug test tell us? | we know s means plural, know how to generate these plurals |
| smallest linguistic unit that has either a meaning or grammatical function | morpheme |
| morphemes can combine to form...? | complex or multi morphemes |
| morphemes are not | words |
| two types of morphemes | free and bound |
| free morphemes can | stand alone |
| bound morphemes can | not stand alone |
| two types of free morphemes | lexical or functional |
| two types of bound morphemes | inflectional or derivational |
| lexical morphemes have | lexical meaning |
| lexical morphemes are | open class |
| examples of lexical morphemes | nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs |
| why are lexical morphemes open class | we can freely add new members |
| functional morphemes... | serve some functional purpose |
| functional morphemes are | closed class |
| why are functional morphemes closed class | we don't add new members |
| examples of functional morphemes | articles, conjunctions, prepositions, auxiliaries, pronouns |
| functional morphemes are missing which makes communication difficult | genie, broca's patient |
| bound morphemes are fixed to a | root |
| four types of affixes | prefixes, suffixes, infix, circumfixion |
| prefixes | come at beginning of word |
| suffixes | come at end of word |
| infixes | come at middle of word, fing infixation |
| circumfixes | surrounds the root, both initially and finally |
| inflectional morphemes | possessive, plural, 3rd person singular present, progressive, past tense, past participle, superlative, comparative |
| derivational morphemes | able, ness, de, re, can be prefix or suffix |
| the, a | articles |
| and, or | conjunctions |
| in, on | prepositions |
| can, will | auxiliary |
| she, they | pronoun |
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