WorksheetsIntroduction to Linguistics
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It is the scientific and systematic study of human language.
Linguistics
Classical Linguistics
Functional Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a perspective of linguistics which attempts to explain the nature of human linguistics knowledge.
Classical Linguistics
Functional Linguistics
Modern Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a perspective of linguistics which confirms the antiquity of old manuscripts of the early printed editions & translations of human language and communication.
Classical Linguistics
Functional Linguistics
Modern Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a perspective of linguistics which relates to the development and beginning at the 18th century.
Classical Linguistics
Functional Linguistics
Modern Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a perspective of linguistics wherein it is the study of language by using major changes as the parameter of assessment.
Macro Linguistics
Micro Linguistics
Modern Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a perspective of linguistics wherein it focuses on the study of minor changes in linguistics such as phonetics, grammar, and internal level of language analysis.
Macro Linguistics
Micro Linguistics
Modern Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a perspective of linguistics which regards language to the functions they perform at all levels of language (phonology, semantic, syntactic, & pragmatic).
Classical Linguistics
Functional Linguistics
Modern Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a kind of linguistics which involves the study of how one particular language has changed or developed over time.
Classical Linguistics
Diachronic Linguistics
Synchronic Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is a kind of linguistics which involves the scientific study of comparative languages at a certain period of time without regard to some other periods.
Classical Linguistics
Diachronic Linguistics
Synchronic Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
It is the study of the production, physical properties, & perception of the actual sounds realizing the phonemes & of the suprasegmental elements of speech.
Allophones
Phonetics
Phonology
Phones
The sub-field of phonetics which is the most relevant in foreign language teaching because it examines the articulary organs and their role in the production of speech sounds.
Acoustic phonetics
Articulary phonetics
Auditory phonetics
The sub-field of phonetics which deals with the physical properties of speech sounds as they travel through the air in the form of sound waves.
Acoustic phonetics
Articulary phonetics
Auditory phonetics
The sub-field of phonetics which examines the way in which human beings perceive speech sounds through the medium of the ear.
Acoustic phonetics
Articulary phonetics
Auditory phonetics
A type of voicing when the vocal folds are spread apart and the air from the lungs passes between them unimpeded.
Voiced
Voiceless
A type of voicing when the vocal folds are drawn together, the air from the lungs repeatedly pushes them apart as it passes through, creating a vibration effect.
Voiced
Voiceless
A kind of place of articulation that is produced between the two lips (e.g., p, b, m, w).
Alveolar
Bilabials
Dentals
Glottals
A kind of place of articulation that is produced between the upper front teeth and the lower lip (e.g., p, b, m, w).
Alveolar
Bilabials
Dentals
Labiodentals
A kind of place of articulation that is produced between the upper front teeth and the tip of the tongue.
Alveolar
Bilabials
Dentals
Labiodentals
A kind of place of articulation that is produced between the alveolar ridge and the front of the tongue.
Alveolar
Bilabials
Dentals
Labiodentals
A kind of place of articulation that is produced in the post-alveolar region.
Alveolar
Bilabials
Dentals
Post-alveolar
A kind of place of articulation that is produced in the area of the hard palate (e.g., j)
Alveolar
Bilabials
Palatal
Post-alveolar
A kind of place of articulation that is produced in the area of the soft palate or velum (e.g., k, g,)
Palatal
Post-alveolar
Glottals
Velars
A kind of place of articulation that is produced in the glottis (e.g. h).
Palatal
Post-alveolar
Glottals
Velars
These are sounds produced when there is a complete closure in the mouth so that the air is blocked for a fraction of second and then released with a small burst of sound called a plosion which sounds like a small explosion.
Approximants
Fricatives
Nasals
Plosives
These are sounds which meets a closure which is not quite complete. This means that the air is not blocked at any point which causes no explosion.
Approximants
Fricatives
Nasals
Plosives
It resembles plosives except that there is a complete closure in the mouth, but as the velum is lowered the air can escape through the nasal cavity. Though most sounds are produced with the velum raised, the normal position for the velum is lowered, as this is the position for breathing.
Approximants
Fricatives
Laterals
Nasals
These are sounds where the air escapes around the sides of the tongue.
Approximants
Fricatives
Laterals
Plosives
These are sounds where the tongue only approaches the roof of the mouth so that there is not enough obstruction to create any friction.
Approximants
Fricatives
Laterals
Plosives
It is the process of not pronouncing a sound segment that might be present in the deliberately careful pronunciation of a word in isolation.
Blending
Compounding
Elision
Linking
It is the science of word forms.
Morphology
Phonology
Semantics
Syntax
It is a vocabulary item or a unit of the lexicon that we normally find as an entry in the dictionary. It is an uninflected term that we normally find as an entry in the dictionary.
Allophone
Lexeme
Morpheme
Syntactic Word
It is an inflected variant of a lexeme (including the zero-inflection).
Allophone
Morpheme
Phonotactics
Syntactic Word
It is the smallest unit that has meaning and cannot be divided into smaller meaning parts.
Allophone
Lexeme
Morpheme
Syntactic Word
It is a kind of morpheme which constitutes words by themselves.
Bound Morpheme
Derivational Morpheme
Free Morpheme
Inflectional Morpheme
It is a kind of morpheme which is a part of a word (e.g., -er, -ness, -ly, pre-, and un-)
Bound Morpheme
Derivational Morpheme
Free Morpheme
Inflectional Morpheme
Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, & Adverbs are examples of?
Content Words
Function Words
Syntactic Words
Conjuctions, Prepositions, Articles, and Pronouns specify grammatical relations and have little or no semantic content. This is also called?
Content Words
Function Words
Syntactic Words
This is the kind of formation where affixes are all particles attached to the base word either preceding or following it.
Affixation
Derivational Affixation
Inflectional Affixation
It is the process of forming new words by adding affixes.
Affixation
Derivational Affixation
Inflectional Affixation
It is the process of adding some grammatical information about the word, such as the person and number of a finite verb, or whether a noun is plural or not.
Affixation
Derivational Affixation
Inflectional Affixation
It is when a new word is derived from another lexeme with different syntactic category w/o altering its form (e.g., water – to water)
Blending
Clipping
Conversion
Compounding
It happens when two free morphemes are conjoined to form a new word (e.g., blackboard)
Blending
Clipping
Conversion
Compounding
It is when a new word is derived from shortening the already-existing lexeme (e.g., gasoline – gas)
Blending
Clipping
Conversion
Compounding
It is when two words are blended to form a new word (e.g., motor + hotel = MOTEL)
Blending
Clipping
Conversion
Compounding
It is a process in which a kind of reverse affixation takes place.
Back-formation
Derivational Affixation
Inflectional Affixation
Onomatopoeia
It is when a newly formed word depicts the sound it makes.
Back-formation
Derivational Affixation
Inflectional Affixation
Onomatopoeia
It refers to a lexeme that is formed from the initial letters or larger parts of words (SARS – Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
Acronyms
Derivational Affixation
Inflectional Affixation
Onomatopoeia
It focuses on how words are put together to create phrases and how phrases are put together to build clauses or bigger phrases, and how clauses are put together to build sentences.
Morphology
Phonology
Syntax
Semantics
It is the study of meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.
Morphology
Phonology
Syntax
Semantics
It is when two or more words with very close meaning are associatively similar.
Antonyms
Hyponymy
Polysemy
Synonyms
It is when two or more words with very close meaning are associatively similar.
Antonyms
Hyponymy
Polysemy
Synonyms
Two or more words with different forms and the same pronunciation.
Hyponymy
Homophones
Homonyms
Polysemy
Two words with the same form that are unrelated in meaning (e.g. mole(on skin) –mole(small animal)
Hyponymy
Homophones
Homonyms
Polysemy
It is when two or more words formed the conflicting meaning.
Antonyms
Hyponymy
Polysemy
Synonyms
It is when the meaning of two related words is integrated within the same hierarchical connections (flower = orchid & rose)
Antonyms
Synonyms
Hyponymy
Polysemy
It is when two or more words with the same form & related meanings can have multiple meanings that are connected with extensions (e.g., HEAD = chairperson, top parts of the body).
Antonyms
Synonyms
Hyponymy
Polysemy
It means referring to something by one of its attributes or by using a related word.
Antonyms
Hyponymy
Metonymy
Polysemy
It is the process of making, writing, editing, compiling, and revising dictionaries (monolingual, bilingual, or specialized).
Lexicography
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
