Morphology refers to the Rules for combining sounds into words.

Syntax refers to the Rules for combining words into phrases and phrases into sentences.

In descriptive grammar there is right or wrong language.

Prescriptive grammar refers to a set of rules about language based on how people think language should be used.

An essential property of human language shared by the communication systems of animals is its discreteness.

In prescriptive grammar, there is right and wrong language

Grammar is the knowledge speakers have about the units and rules of their language.

Linguistic performance refers to the difference between our knowledge of words and grammar.

The arbitrary relation is NOT true in sign languages.

The number of sentences in a language is infinite.

Linguistic ........... refers to the difference between our knowledge of words and grammar.

Linguistic ......... refers how we use knowledge in actual speech production and comprehension.

Language distinguishes ...... from other animals.

Content words denote ....... such as objects, actions and attributes, or ideas,...

......... words include Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

.................. words do not have clear lexical meaning or obvious concepts associated with them.

...............words specify grammatical relations and have little or no semantic content.

Content words are also called open class words.

Function words are also called open class words.

Words such as "and, but, his, in, on..." are content words.

Words such as "online, blog, book, load ...." are open class words.

The number of function words in English is infinite.

There are much more content words than function words in English.

........ are minimal meaningful units of a language which may constitute words or parts of words.

Two different morphemes which have different meanings may be pronounced

The word "beautifully" is composed of ................. morphemes.

The word "helicopter" is composed of ................ morpheme(s).

The meaning of morpheme "er" in these words "teacher" and "higher" is .........................

The word "unluckily" is composed of ....................... morpheme(s).

The word “entertain” is composed of 2 morphemes represented by 3 syllables.

The word “ illegally” is composed of 3 morphemes represented by 4 syllables.

Some free morphemes are affixes.

Most free morphemes cannot stand alone with meaning.

Bound morphemes may not constitute words by themselves.

All suffixes are bound morphemes.

Circumfixes are morphemes inserted into a base morphemes both initially and finally.

In the word “unbelievable”, the free morpheme is “believe”.

In the word “infamous”, the root is “famous”.

The word “submit” is a stem because there is a root morpheme and an affix.

......................... morphemes may constitute words by themselves.

................................ morphemes are never words by themselves but are always parts of words.

................................. are morphemes that occur before other morphemes

................................ are morphemes that are attached to a base morpheme both initially and finally.

............................... are morphemes that are inserted into other morphemes.

.................... are morphemes that occur after other morphemes.

All English words must consist of a root and one or more affixes.

A root always stands alone.

A stem must consist of a root and at least one affix.

All English inflectional morphemes are suffixes.

There are more derivational morphemes than inflectional morphemes in English.

Derivational morphemes always cause word class change

All inflectional morphemes come before the derivational morphemes in a word.

There are 2 derivational morphemes in the word “unlockable”.

Two different morphemes are always pronounced differently.

Words such as "teacher", "reread" consist of a morpheme ............. and one affix.

The bolded part in these words "receive", "conceive", "permit", "commit" are called .......... roots.

The form that results from the addition of a .............. morpheme is called a derived word.

The word with ........... morpheme may be of a different word class from the original word.

the process of combining two words, deleting part of the words that are combined.

the process of using proper names as words.

the process of joining two or more words to form new words.

the process of taking away derivational morpheme(s) from the words to create new ones.

Process of cutting off the beginning/end of the word or both. This process does NOT create new words.

the process of forming words derived from the initials of several words, such as WHO.

the process of forming the string of letters which is not easily pronounced as a word. The “acronym” is produced by sounding out each letter, such as WWW or BBC.

The process of forming the word "photo" from the original word "photograph" is called .............

The process of forming the word "telecast" from the original words "television" and "broadcast" is called ........................

The process of forming the word "Radar" from the original ones "radio detection and ranging" is called ................................

....... refers to a word which has different meanings.

...............refers to a phrase or a sentence which has different meanings.

.................relationship between the meaning of a particular group of words and the arrangement of those words.

.......specify the correct word order for a language.

The rules of syntax combine words into phrases and phrases into sentences

The underlined part in this sentence "Martha found a lovely pillow for the couch." is a constituent.

The underlined part in this sentence "The light in this room is terrible" is a constituent.

The underlined part in this sentence "I wonder whether Bonnie has finished packing her books." is a constituent.

The underlined part in this sentence "Melissa slept in her class." is a constituent.

The combination of words into phrases, clauses, sentences is............

“Stand alone”, “replacement by a pronoun”, “move as a unit” are

“This, and, must, him” belong to the