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Bruce M Rowe , Diane L Levine 9780133811216 ALL Chapters .
Language - ANSWER: A conventional system of habitual vocal behaviour by which members of a
community communicate with one another.
Diachronic linguistics - ANSWER: ("through" "time") study of language development through history.
Synhronic linguistics - ANSWER: ("together" "time") considers a language at a moment in time without
taking its history into accoun.
Descriptive approach - ANSWER: An approach to linguistics that describes how language is actually
used.
Prescriptive approach - ANSWER: An approach to linguistics that refers to a set of norms or rules
governing how a language should or should not be used.
In what language group were observed the first sound laws? - ANSWER: Germanic
Frisian, Afrikaans, Welsh, Yiddish. Which of this languages does not belong in the Germanic language
family? - ANSWER: Welsh
What genealogical category does English language belongs to? - ANSWER: West Germanic languages
What is a proto-language? - ANSWER: The root from which all languages in a family stem from.
What classical language served as the main comparative instrument for the earliest observation of
relations and histories of the Indo-Europian languages? - ANSWER: Sanskrit
Dialect - ANSWER: A style typical for a particular geographic region.
Idiolect - ANSWER: A specific style of an individual person.
Phonetics - ANSWER: A study of sounds in verbal communication (study of speech sounds).
Phonology - ANSWER: The study of organization and function of speech sounds as a part of the
grammar of a language.
Phoneme - ANSWER: The minimal phonological unit.
Allophones - ANSWER: Variants of phonemes.
Which linguistic discipline studies stress and intonation in speech? - ANSWER: phonetics
Morphology - ANSWER: A study of word form, structure and formal relations.
Morpheme - ANSWER: The minimal unit of morphology.
By function morphemes can be? - ANSWER: lexical and grammatical
By form morphemes can be? - ANSWER: free and bound
Bound morphemes can be? - ANSWER: inflectional and derivational
Derivational morphemes - ANSWER: Prefixes and suffixes that can be added to a morpheme to change
words meaning and even create a new word.
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