Define the following terms:
1. design feature:are features
that define our human languages,such as
arbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,cultural
transmission,etc.
2. function: the use of
language tocommunicate,to think ,etc.Language functions inclucle
imformative function,interpersonal function,performative
function,interpersonal function,performative function,emotive
function,phatic communion,recreational function and metalingual
function.
3. etic: a term in contrast
with emic which originates from American linguist Pike’s
distinction of phonetics and phonemics.Being etic mans making far
too many, as well as behaviously
inconsequential,differentiations,just as was ofter the case with
phonetic vx.phonemic analysis in linguistics proper.
4. emic: a term in contrast
with etic which originates from American linguist Pike’s
distinction of phonetics and phonemics.An emic set of speech acts
and events must be one that is validated as meaningful via final
resource to the native members of a speech communith rather than
via qppeal to the investigator’s ingenuith or intuition
alone.
5. synchronic: a kind of
description which takes a fixed instant(usually,but not
necessarily,the present),as its point of observation.Most grammars
are of this kind.
6. diachronic:study of a
language is carried through the course of its history.
7. prescriptive: the study of a
language is carried through the course of its history.
8. prescriptive: a kind of
linguistic study in which things are prescribed how ought to
be,i.e.laying down rules for language use.
9. descriptive: a kind of
linguistic study in which things are just described.
10. arbitrariness: one design
feature of human language,which refers to the face that the forms
of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their
meaning.
11. duality: one design feature
of human language,which refers to the property of having two levels
of are composed of elements of the secondary.level and each of the
two levels has its own principles of organization.
12. displacement: one design
feature of human language,which means human language enable their
users to symbolize objects,events and concepts which are not
present c in time and space,at the moment of communication.
13. phatic communion: one
function of human language,which refers to the social interaction
of language.
14. metalanguage: certain kinds
of linguistic signs or terms for the analysis and description of
particular studies.
15. macrolinguistics: he
interacting study between language and language-related disciplines
such as psychology,sociology,ethnograph,science of law and
artificial intelligence etc.Branches of macrolinguistics include
psycholinguistics,sociolinguistics,
anthropological
linguistics,et
16. competence: language user’s
underlying knowledge about the system of rules.
17. performance: the actual use
of language in concrete situation.
18. langue: the linguistic
competence of the speaker.
19. parole: the actual
phenomena or data of linguistics(utterances).
20. Articulatory phonetics: the
study of production of speechsounds.
21. Coarticulation: a kind of
phonetic process in which simultaneous or overlapping articulations
are involved..Coarticulation can be further divided into
anticipatory coarticulation and perseverative coarticulation.
22. Voicing: pronouncing a
sound (usually a vowel or a voiced consonant) by vibrating the
vocal cords.
23. Broad and narrow
transcription: the use of a simple set of symbols in transcription
is called broad transcription;the use of a simple set of symbols in
transcription is called broad transcription;while,the use of more
specific symbols to show more phonetic detail is referred to as
narrow transcription.
24. Consonant: are sound
segments produced by constricting or obstructing the vocal tract at
some place to divert,impede,or completely shut off the flow of air
in the oral cavity.
25. Phoneme: the abstract
element of sound, identified as being distinctive in a particular
language.
26. Allophone:any of the
different forms of a
phoneme(eg.<th>is an allophone of
/t/in English.When /t/occurs in words like step,it is
unaspirated<t>.Both<th>and
<t>are allophones of the
phoneme/t/.
27. Vowl:are sound segments
produced without such obstruction,so no turbulence of a total
stopping of the air can be perceived.
28. Manner of articulation; in
the production of consonants,manner of articulation refers to the
actual relationship between the articulators and thus the way in
which the air passes through certain parts of the vocal
tract.
29. Place of articulation: in
the production of consonants,place of articulation refers to where
in the vocal tract there is approximation,narrowing,or the
obstruction of air.
30. Distinctive features: a
term of phonology,i.e.a property which distinguishes one phoneme
from another.
31. Complementary distribution:
the relation between tow speech sounds that never occur in the same
environment.Allophones of the same phoneme are usually in
complementary distribution.
32. IPA: the abbreviation of
International Phonetic Alphabet,which is devised by the
International Phonetic Association in 1888 then it has undergong a
number of revisions.IPA is a comprised system employing symbols of
all sources,such as Roman small letters,italics uprighted,obsolete
letters,Greek letters,diacritics,etc.
33.
Suprasegmental:suprasegmental featuresare those
aspects of speech that involve more than single sound segments.The
principal supra-segmental features aresyllable,stress,tone,,and
intonation.
34. Suprasegmental:aspects of
speech that involve more than single sound segments.The principle
suprasegmental features are syllable,stress,tone,and
intonation.
35. morpheme:the smallest unit
of language in terms of relationship between expression and
content,a unit that cannot be divided into further small units
without destroying or drastically altering the meaning,whether it
is lexical or grammatical.
36. compound oly morphemic
words which consist wholly of free morphemes,such as
classroom,blackboard,snowwhite,etc.
37. inflection: the
manifestation of grammatical relationship through the addition of
inflectional affixes,such as number,person,finiteness,aspect and
case,which do not change the grammatical class of the stems to
which they are attached.
38. affix: the collective term
for the type of formative that can be used only when added to
another morpheme(the root or stem).
39. derivation: different from
compounds,derivation shows the relation between roots and
affixes.
40. root: the base from of a
word that cannot further be analyzed without total lass of
identity.
41. allomorph:; any of the
different form of a morpheme.For example,in English the plural
mortheme is but it is pronounced differently in different
environments as/s/in cats,as/z/ in dogs and as/iz/ in
classes.So/s/,/z/,and /iz/ are all allomorphs of the plural
morpheme.
42. Stem: any morpheme or
combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be
added.
43. bound morpheme: an element
of meaning which is structurally dependent on the world it is added
to,e.g. the plural morpheme in “dog’s”.
44. free morpheme: an element
of meaning which takes the form of an independent word.
45. lexeme:A separate unit of
meaning,usually in the form of a word(e.g.”dog in the
manger”)
46. lexicon: a list of all the
words in a language assigned to various lexical categories and
provided with semantic interpretation.
47. grammatical word: word
expressing grammatical meanings,such
conjunction,prepositions,articles and pronouns.
48. lexical word: word having
lexical meanings,that is ,those which refer to substance,action and
quality,such as nouns,verbs,adjectives,and verbs.
49. open-class: a word whose
membership is in principle infinite or unlimited,such as
nouns,verbs,adjectives,and many adverbs.
50. blending: a relatively
complex form of compounding,in which two words are blended by
joining the initial part of the first word and the final part of
the second word,or by joining the initial parts of the two
words.
51. loanvoord: a process in
which both form and meaning are borrowed with only a slight
adaptation,in some cases,to eh phonological system of the new
language that they enter.
52. loanblend: a process in
which part of the form is native and part is borrowed, but the
meaning is fully borrowed.
53. leanshift: a process in
which the meaning is borrowed,but the form is native.
54. acronym: is made up form
the first letters of the name of an organization,which has a
heavily modified headword.
55. loss: the disappearance of
the very sound as a morpheme in the phonological system.
56. back-formation: an abnormal
type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by deleting
an imagined affix from a long form already in the language.
57. assimilation: the change of
a sound as a result of the influence of an adjacent sound,which is
more specifically called.”contact”or”contiguous”assimilation.
58. dissimilation: the
influence exercised.By one sound segment upon the articulation of
another, so that the sounds become less alike,or different.
59. folk etymology: a change in
form of a word or phrase,resulting from an incorrect popular nation
of the origin or meaning of the term or from the influence of more
familiar terms mistakenly taken to be analogous
60. category:parts of speech
and function,such as the classification of words in terms of parts
of speech,the identification of terms of parts of speech,the
identification of functions of words in term of
subject,predicate,etc.
61. concord: also known as
agreement,is the requirement that the forms of two or more words in
a syntactic relationship should agree with each other in terms of
some categories.
62. syntagmatic relation
between one item and others in a sequence,or between elements which
are all present.
63. paradigmatic relation: a
relation holding between elements replaceable with each other at a
particular place in a structure,or between one element present and
he others absent.
64. immediate constituent
analysis: the analysis of a sentence in terms of its immediate
constituents---word groups(or phrases),which are in trun analyzed
into the immediate constituents of their own,and the process goes
on until the ultimate constituents are reached.
65. endocentric construction:
one construction whose distribution is functionally equivalent,or
approaching equivalence,to one of its constituents,which serves as
the centre,or head, of the whole.Hence an endocentric construction
is also known as a headed construction.
66. exocentric construction: a
construction whose distribution is not functionally equivalent to
any to any of its constituents.
67. deep structure: the
abstract representation of the syntactic properties of a
construction,i.e.the underlying level of structural relations
between its different constituents ,such sa the relation
between,the underlying subject and its verb,or a verb and its
object.
68. surfacte structure: the
final stage in the syntactic derivation of a construction,which
closely corresponds to the structural organization of a
construction people actually produce and receive.
69. c-command: one of the
similarities,or of the more general features, in these two
government relations,is technically called constituent
command,c-command for short.
70. government and binding
theory: it is the fourth period of development Chomsky’s TG
Grammar, which consists of X-bar theme: the basis,or the starting
point,of the utterance.
71. communicative dynamism: the
extent to which the sentence element contributes to the development
of the communication.
72. ideational function: the
speaker’s experience of the real world,including the inner world of
his own consciousness.
73. interpersonal function: the
use of language to establish and maintain social relations: for the
expression of social roles,which include the communication roles
created by language itself;and also for getting things done,by
means of the interaction between one person and another..
74. textual function: the use
of language the provide for making links with itself and with
features of the situation in which it is used.
75. conceptual meaning: the
central part of meaning, which contains logical,cognitive,or
denotative content.
76. denotation: the core sense
of a word or a phrade that relates it to phenomena in the real
world.
77. connotation: a term in a
contrast with denotation,meaning the properties of the entity a
word denotes.
78. reference: the use of
language to express a propostion,meaning the properties of the
entity a word denotes.
79. reference: the use of
anguage to express a proposition,i.e. to talk about things in
context.
80. sense: the literal meaning
of a word or an expression,independent of situational
context.
81. synonymy: is the technical
name for the sameness relation.
82. complentary antonymy:
members of a pair in complementary antonymy are complementary to
each field completely,such as male,female,absent.
83. gradable antongymy: members
of this kind are gradable,such as
long:short,big;small,fat;thin,etc.
84. converse antonymy: a
special kind of antonymy in that memembers of a pair do not
constitute a positive-negative opposition,such as
buy;sell,lend,borrow,above,below,etc.
85. relational
opposites:converse antonymy in reciprocal social roles,kinship
relations,temporal and spatial relations.There are always two
entities involved.One presupposes the other. The
shorter,better;worse.etc are instances of relational
opposites.
86. hyponymy: a relation
between tow words,in which the meaning of one word(the
superordinate)is included in the meaning of another word(the
hyponym)
87. superordinate: the upper
term in hyponymy,i.e.the class name.A superordinate usually has
several hyponyms.Under animal,for example,there are
cats,dogs,pigs,etc,
88. semantic component: a
distinguishable element of meaning in a word with two
values,e.g<+human>
89. compositionality: a
principle for sentence analysis, in which the meaning of a sentence
depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they
are combined.
90. selection
restriction:semantic restrictions of the noun phrases that a
particular lexical item can take,e.g.regret requires a human
subject.
91. prepositional logic: also
known as prepositional calculus or sentential calculus,is the study
of the truth conditions for propositions:how the truth of a
composite propositions and the connection between them.
92. proposition;what is talk
about in an utterance,that part of the speech act which has to do
with reference.
93. predicate logic: also
predicate calculus,which studies the internal structure of
simple.
94. assimilation theory:
language(sound,word,syntax,etc)change or process by which features
of one element change to match those of another that precedes or
follows.
95. cohort theory: theory of
the perception of spoken words proposed in the mid-1980s.It saaumes
a “recognition lexicon”in which each word is represented by a full
and independent”recognistion element”.When the system receives the
beginning of a relevant acoustic signal,all elements matching it
are fully acticated,and,as more of the signal is received,the
system tries to match it independently with each of them,Wherever
it fails the element is deactivated;this process continues until
only one remains active.
96. context effect: this effect
help people recognize a word more readily when the receding words
provide an appropriate context for it.
97. frequency effect: describes
the additional ease with which a word is accessed due to its more
frequent usage in language.
98. inference in context: any
conclusion drawn from a set of proposition,from something someone
has said,and so on.It includes things that,while not following
logically,are implied,in an ordinary sense,e.g.in a specific
context.
99. immediate assumption: the
reader is supposed to carry out the progresses required to
understand each word and its relationship to previous words in the
sentence as soon as that word in encountered.
100. language
perception:language awareness of things through the physical
senses,esp,sight.
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