Linguistics 1 Ucla Final Study Guide – Complete With
Solutions
Phonology Correct Ans - sound patterns
Lexicon Correct Ans - Mental Dictionary
Morphology Correct Ans - structure of complex words connection
between words and meaning - arbitrary
- allows us to:
- understand new words
- judge possible vs. impossible words
- recognize ambiguous words
- create new words
Syntax Correct Ans - Building phrases and sentences
Semantics Correct Ans - Meaning of language
Grammar Correct Ans - rules governing a language
What is performance affected by? Correct Ans - - memory limitation
- shifts in attention and interest
- psychological and physical states
- linguistics and non-linguistic context
Spoonerism Correct Ans - speech or performance error in which
sounds or words are transposed
Garden Path Sentences Correct Ans - grammatically correct but easily
misunderstood
prescriptive grammar Correct Ans - how we should speak
Descriptive grammar Correct Ans - Rules people actually follow
Universal Grammar Correct Ans - Laws of grammar that all languages
follow
, Universal Rules Correct Ans - - nouns/verbs
- way in which to indicate whether an event is completed or not
- ways to mark negation, ask a question, indicate more than one
- have rules and finite number of symbols that combine and permits to form
larger units
- discrete combinational systems
- recursive rules: rules that add to or embed one sentence inside another
Recursive Rules: Coordination Correct Ans - "and", connects
independent clauses
Recursive Rules: Subordination Correct Ans - "that", connects
dependent clauses
Types of Morphology Correct Ans - compounding - combine 2 or more
free morphemes
Affixation - adding prefixes and/or suffixes
Reduplication
etc
Word Trees Correct Ans - used to describe compound words
Grammatical properties of Head Correct Ans - Determines lexical
category (English is right most word)
- syntactic category
- meaning
- inflectional ending - added to head
Prepositions and Pronouns Correct Ans - closed class - don't admit
new membz
Nouns/Verbs/Adjs/Advs Correct Ans - Open class - can be added to
Properties of English Compounds Correct Ans - - head comes last
- stress comes first
- stress determines when words is compound, not orthography
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