English Linguistics Flashcards

Decks in this Class (20):

• Chapter 1 From Language To Linguistics

  Chapter 1: From Language to Linguistics

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  compositionality,

  recursion,

  constructed languages
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• Chapter 2 The Language User

  Chapter 2: The Language User

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  linguistic performance,

  communicative competence,

  mental lexicon
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• Chapter 3 Language Acquisition

  Chapter 3: Language Acquisition

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  innate language faculty,

  language environment,

  acquisition though interaction
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• Chapter 4 Discourse

  Chapter 4: Discourse

  Sample Cards:

  conversational implicature,

  cooperation principle,

  maxims
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• Chapter 5 Speech Acts

  Chapter 5: Speech Acts

  Sample Cards:

  locution,

  illocution,

  performative verbs
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• Chapter 6 Constituents And Word Classes

  Chapter 6: Constituents and Word Classes

  Sample Cards:

  word classes,

  clause,

  phrase
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• Chapter 7 Simple Sentences

  Chapter 7: Simple Sentences

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  argument,

  adjuncts,

  valency
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• Chapter 8 Complex Sentences

  Chapter 8: Complex Sentences

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  main clause,

  complement clause,

  adverbial clause
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• Chapter 9 Constituent Order

  Chapter 9: Constituent Order

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  declarative clauses,

  basic constituent order,

  interrogative clauses
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• Chapter 10 Sentence Meaning

  Chapter 10: Sentence Meaning

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  compositional meaning,

  meaning,

  semantics
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• Chapter 11 Lexicon

  Chapter 11: Lexicon

  Sample Cards:

  clitic,

  iconicity,

  open word classes
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• Chapter 12 Word Formation

  Chapter 12: Word Formation

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  internally simple words,

  morphemes,

  morphology
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• Chapter 13 Compounds And Idiomatic Expre

  Chapter 13: Compounds and Idiomatic Expressions

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  head,

  endocentric compound,

  exocentric compounds
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• Chapter 14 Speaking And Listening Speech

  Chapter 14: Speaking and Listening - Speech Sounds

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  speech chain,

  phonetics,

  pharynx
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• Chapter 15 Sound Systems And Phonologica

  Chapter 15: Sound Systems and Phonological Processes

  Sample Cards:

  distinctiveness,

  minimal pairs,

  phoneme
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• Chapter 16 Syllables Stress And Intonati

  Chapter 16: Syllables, Stress and Intonation

  Sample Cards:

  syllables,

  syllabification,

  onset
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• Chapter 17 Differences And Similarities

  Chapter 17: Differences and Similarities between Languages

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  typological similarities,

  areal similarities,

  sprachbund
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• Chapter 18 Language Variation

  Chapter 18: Language Variation

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  sociolinguistics,

  dialect,

  language variety
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• Chapter 19 Language Change

  Chapter 19: Language Change

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  morphological change,

  syntactic change,

  lexical change
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• Chapter 20 Bilingualism

  Chapter 20: Bilingualism

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  multilingualism,

  language shift,

  language loss
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