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1. Phonology The branch of linguistics that deals with sytems of sounds.
(fonología)
2. phonemes (fone- The smallest unit of sound;may cause change in meaning but does not have
mas) meaning on its own
"bake" v. "brake"
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3. morphology The study of the forms of words, how they are formed, & their relationship to
(morfología) other words in the same language. Analyzes the structure of words and parts of
words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes & looks at parts of speech,
intonation and stress, and the ways context can change a word's pronunciation
and meaning
4. morpheme (mor-
fema)
5. free morpheme
6. bound mor-
pheme
7. inflectional (affix-
es in morpholo-
gy)
8. derivational
(morpheme)
9. Lexicon vocabulary of a language
10. lexemes
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11. Syntax a set of rules for constructing full sentences out of words phrases;
word order changes meaning
12. semantics the literal meaning of words, sentences and phrases
13. pragmatics the study of the use of language; deals with intentions behind utterances
14. productive rule
of language
15. universal gram- a linguistic theory which argues that the ability to learn language is innate,
mar distinctly human and distinct from other aspects of human cognition; that languge
is hard wired into the brain
Noam Chomsky
16. descriptive a set of rules about language based on how it is actually used; there is no right
grammar or wrong language; "he goes" means "he said"
represents the unconscious knowledge of language
17. prescriptive the structure of lanuage as it should be used; grammtically correct
grammar
18. deep structure the information that exists in the mind of the speaker as more or less an abstract
(language) representation
19. surface structure expressing information linguistically by producing sentences/utterances
(language)
20. linguistic rules
21. language devel- a process starting early in life, infants start without language yet by 10 months
opment they can distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling.
22.