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INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET
A system of transcribing the sounds of speech that attempts to represent each sound of human speech with a single symbol
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MINIMAL PAIR
Two words with distinct meanings that differ in only one segment found in the same position in each form.
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CONJUNCTIONS
The words "although, though, because, whether, if, and, since" are examples of the word category.
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SUBSTITUTION TEST OR REPLACEMENT TEST
A diagnostic used to determine if a group of words is a syntactic constituent by replacing the group with a single word.
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What is LEXICAL AMBIGUITY?
The ambiguity that is due to a word has two or more meanings.
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SUPRASEGMENTAL PROPERTIES
Those properties of sounds that form part of their makeup no matter what their place or manner of articulation: tone, intonation, stress, length
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RULES
A derivation has three parts: Underlying Representation, Phonetic Representation and this.
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AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGES
Languages in which words typically contain several morphemes, of which usually only is a lexical category or root.
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COMPLEMENTIZER
A functional category that takes TP as its complement
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What is ENTAILMENT?
If Sentence A is true, then Sentence B must be true also. But if B is true, it does not necessarily mean A is true
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AFFRICATES
Non-continuant consonants that show a slow release of the closure [ð, dʒ]
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ENVIRONMENT
The phonetic context in which a sound is found.
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ENDOCENTRIC COMPOUND
A compound word in which one member identifies the general class to which the meaning of the entire word belongs.
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WH-MOVEMENT
The wh-word in English appears dislocated to the beginning of the clause as a result of this.
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What is A PROTOTYPE?
The best exemplar of a category, such as robins to birds.
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ARTICULATORY PHONETICS
In exploring language sounds in the class we used only this approach or perspective of phonetics.
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DISTINCTIVE FEATURE
A feature that serves to distinguish contrastive forms.
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INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY or INFLECTIONS
Tense, mood, number, case, and agreement are examples of this kind of morphology.
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SUBCATEGORIZATION
The classification of words according to their complement options.
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What is THE COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE?
The general guidelines that underlie conversational interaction.
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PULMONARY EGGRESSIVE
English sounds are produced by only this airstream mechanism.
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CLOSED SYLLABLES
Syllable such as CVC, VC, CCVC are examples of this type of syllables.
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SUPPLETION
A morphological process that marks a grammatical contrast by replacing a morpheme with an entirely different morpheme. e.g. be/was
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MERGE AND MOVE
Computational operations responsible for combining syntactic elements, arranging and displacing
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What is THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPOSITIONALITY?
The meaning of a complex expression is determined by its structure and the meaning of its constituents.
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