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Language is Dynamic - Answer - Words expand meanings
- Phonology changes
- Morphological changes
Language is complex - Answer All languages are equally ____
Language is arbitrary
Language comes easily to humans
Language is open ended
Language is structured - Answer Discrete sound segments such as /p/, /n/, /a/ and a
class of consonants and a class of vowels
Rules for formation of words and sentences
Grammatical categories
Phonology - Answer is the study of the system or pattern of speech sounds
Phonemes - Answer the sounds that make up a language Distinctive units of sound
25-50 per language
English has 34-45 depending on dialect
point of having this is to be able to describe the sounds of all human languages
Symbols - Answer used to represent these sounds(phonemes)
International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA - Answer there are a variety of symbol systems,
but one of the most important ones
A lot of ___symbols look like English letters, but they are NOT letters.
sound-symbol correspondence - Answer English has very low of this and this presents
ESOL students with great difficulty.
Be aware of the confusion certain types of words produce Ex: /f/ = -ough (cough, tough),
-ph (phone, pharmacy)
Voiced Sounds - Answer -the vocal chords are vibrating
, ZZZZZZ
Voiceless Sounds - Answer the vocal chords are NOT vibrating
Pitch - Answer individual tones of speech—the relative highness or lowness of a
speaker's voice
Intonation - Answer involves the rising and falling of the voice to various pitch levels
during an utterance (e.g., questions vs. statements)
stress - Answer increase in vocal activity - can modify word meaning
stressed syllable - Answer longer and louder
suprasegmentals - Answer pitch
intonation
stress
rhythm
connected speech
rhythm - Answer The regular, patterned beat of stressed and unstressed syllables and
pauses
Can teach through saying rhymes: twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you
are.....
connected speech - Answer the running together of words (a book vs. an apple)
Ifwordswereprintedwithoutspacesbetweenthemtheywouldbeprettytoughtoread
segmentals - Answer distinct sounds- vowels and consonants
morphology - Answer study of the meaning units in a language
morpheme - Answer small, indivisible units that are the building blocks of language
Free Morphemes - Answer they can exist on their own:
Girl, dog, cat
bound morphemes - Answer they only "travel" with other morphemes:
"er" in dancer, "ed" in walked
Dogs = dog + s
Affixes
Affixes - Answer Prefixes
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