Elements of language

What is phonetics?

• Study of speech, its production, and perception.

• deals with idealised symbolic units that can be combined according to formal rules.

• The study of the ways in which words are constructed out of smaller units that have a meaning or grammatical function.

The study of the ways in which words are constructed out of smaller units that have a meaning or grammatical function. This statment refers to .............

• Morphology

• Semantics

• Phonology

Semantics is the study of ............

• the way in which sentences are constructed; how sentences are related to each other.

• speech sounds; how they are produced in the vocal tract, their physical properties, and how they are perceived.

• meaning; how words and sentences are related to the (real or imaginary) objects they refer to and the situations they describe.

........................... allows you to recognize sounds and words spoken by different speakers, even though most people do not pronounce them in exactly the same way.

(Syntax) is the knowledge that allows you to form grammatical phrases and sentences and to be able to diterman which are grammatical and which are not.

• True

• False

When we say: "The vowel sound in the word suit is produced with rounded lips." We are refaring to .............................

Eeach of these elements of language (Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and pragmatics) is part of your linguistics Performance.

• True

• False

Sentence structure, grammar rules, and parts of speech are all examples of....

• Pragmatics

• Syntax

• Semantics

"The owner walked the dogs."

"The dogs walked the owner."

These have the same words but different..

• Meaning

• Answers

• Spelling

• Choices

______ is the study of communication in context