Linguistics Correct Answer: the scientific study of language
Phonetics Correct Answer: the study of speech sounds (production and pronunciation) in isolation
Pragmatics Correct Answer: the study of the use of la
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Linguistics Correct Answer: the scientific study of language
Phonetics Correct Answer: the study of speech sounds (production and pronunciation) in isolation
Pragmatics Correct Answer: the study of the use of language in context. It deals with how listeners arrive at intended meaning of speakers
Grammar Correct Answer: a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
Phonology Correct Answer: The study of patterns/organization of sound systems...The system of sound segments (phonemes) that humans use to build up words. Having phonological knowledge means for example, knowing what sounds can combine together to form words, what sounds can occur at the beginning or at the end of a word, and how they should be pronounced depending on the situation
Phoneme Correct Answer: the smallest distinctive sound unit
Allophone Correct Answer: any of the speech sounds that represent a single phoneme, such as the aspirated k in kit and the un-aspirated k in skit, which are allophones of the phoneme k.
Morphology Correct Answer: The structure of words/study of how words are formed through the combination of morphemes (smallest unit of meaningful sounds)
Morpheme Correct Answer: The smallest unit of language that carries meaning (cannot be subdivided further)
Free Morpheme Correct Answer: A morpheme that can stand alone as a word
-nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs (Open Class/lexical/content)
-conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns (Closed Class/function/grammatical)
Bound Morphemes Correct Answer: A morpheme that cannot stand alone
-Root, affix
Allomorph Correct Answer: any variant of a morpheme, such as the plural endings s (as in bats ), z (as in bugs ), and iz (as in buses ) for the plural morpheme.
Affix Correct Answer: prefix (added to beginning of another morpheme)
suffix (added to end of another morpheme)
infix (inserted into another morpheme)
circumfix (added to start and end of w
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