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Teacher 179 terms vh8442Preview Praxis 5362 Teacher 92 terms MrsRentzPreview SLO1 Objective Assessment 122 terms katy1185Preview Theorie Teacher ren Practice questions for this set Learn1 / 7Study using Learn demonstrates a concept/subject matter SyntaxPart of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences and their structures Rules of SyntaxUnderstanding how to combine words into phrases; phrases into sentences

Rules of Syntax: Correct Word OrderUnderstanding grammatical vs. ungrammatical

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Rules of Syntax: MeaningUnderstanding the meaning of a particular groups of words and how to arrange the group of words Syntactic CategoriesA group of expressions that can substitute for one another without the loss of grammaticiality.Noun Phrase (NP)The name of a syntactic category that consists of proper names, pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic distribution.Determinerwords that introduce noun phrases, articles such as "A, The" Verb PhraseThe name of a syntactic category that is always a verb; (some times a preposition will come before a verb) Demonstrativethis, that, these, those every, each - counting words Auxiliary (verb)have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs] Modalscan, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must - verbs that express mood or tense subjectwho or what the sentence is about direct objectreceives the action of the verb Dialecta form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group PidginLanguage that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language.CreoleWhen children learn the pidgin language as their first language accentthe manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in different parts of the world Prestige Variety of a LanguageThe dominant or standard dialect of a region.America = Standard American English (most people speak a dialect, usually no one speaks the "prestige") "The Standard" - SAEWhat everyone else is saying.Vague "language" and not easily defined as dialects The particular language that has social functions which is decided by the elite, wealthy, influential, and popular Slanginformal language; everyone uses but difficult to define RegisterCode Switching You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.

EuphemismAn indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant.Die vs. Pass Away language and sexismMale words = empowering Female words = demeaning MorphologyThe study of words Morphemesinternal word structures morph = ology derivational morphemesprefixes and suffixes added to root words to create derived words (bound morpheme) inflectional morphemessuffix added to a word shows tense, number, possession, or comparision ending of word

EX: -ing, -s, -es, -est

Represents the relationship between difference parts of the sentence John is dancing = now John danced = past (bound morpheme) bound morphemeCANNOT stand alone Free (Unbound) Morphemeswords that can stand alone and carry meaning in language coinagea newly invented word or phrase; podcast Compounds (morphology)two words that are combined Blended wordsWord that is made up of parts of words; Smog Backformationthe process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter version and using it as a new word such as a verb (e.g. babysit from babysitter) infixA type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem.LogographicA system of writing in which each word is represented by a single symbol, such as the Chinese script.ConsonantalA system of writing where symbols represent the consonants. The readers must use knowledge of the language to supply the appropriate vowel.SyllabicA system of writing where each syllable in the language is represented by it's own syllable. Words are represented syllable by syllable.

AlphabeticA system of writing where both consonants and vowels are represented by a symbol.Rebus PrincipleUse of a symbol to represent a word.SemanticsThe branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.pragmaticUnderstanding how contexts affects meaning of a sentence."It's cold in here -> Close the window." synonymA word that means the same as another word antonyma word that means the opposite of another word homonymword that sounds like another but differs in meaning and spelling DeixisWords that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to, where something is happening or when it is happening.speech actscommunicative acts that carry meaning beyond the words and phrases used within them, for example, apologies and promises CollocationTwo or more words that co-occur in a language more often that would be expected by chance."strong coffee" Phrasal VerbsIdiomatic phrase that contains a verb; "bump into, break down" Corpus studiesStudy of language in sample of real world Natural Order HypothesisKrashen - grammatical structures acquired in a predictable order, independent of the order grammar is taught second language learningthe conscious process of learning a language second language acquisitionthe unconscious/subconscious process of obtaining and a language language input hypothesisthe language available to learners that can be spoken or written; knowing what you are saying (Krashen) language output hypothesisthe ability to use the language; knowing the phrases (Krashen) Monitor HypothesisThose who are acquiring language begin a process of monitoring their language through conscious corrections. (Krashen) -Errors and error correction are both signs of development processes

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