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SLO1 5/2020

WGU All terms not included in the other SLO1 teacher made slides by rachaelah

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Phonemic Alphabet Alphabetic symbols used to represent the phonetic segments of speech, in which there is a one-to-one relationship between sound and symbol.
Diacritics Additional markings on written symbols to specify various phonetic properties (e.g., the tilde drawn over the letter n in Spanish represents a palatalized nasal rather than an alveolar nasal)
Orthography The written form of a language (aka spelling and grammar)
Suprasegmental Prosodic features (e.g., length, tone).
Caretaker talk The modified talk used by parents and other caretakers when talking to young children. Used in L1 acquisition.
Telegraphic Utterances of children after the two-word stage when many grammatical morphemes are omitted.
Standard American English An idealized dialect of English that is considered by some prescriptive grammarians to be the proper form of American English.
African American English A dialect of English spoken by some African Americans.
Ebonics An alternative term for the various dialects of African American English, first used in 1997.
Chicano English A dialect of English spoken by some bilingual Mexican Americans in the Southwest and California.
Argot/Jargon The set of words used by a particular occupational group, such as scientists, bricklayers, etc./special words particular to the members of a profession or group.
Taboo A term used in reference to words (or acts) that are not to be used (or performed) in "polite society."
Language Any particular system of human communication.
Linguistics The study of language as a system of human communication.
Phonetics The study of speech sounds.
Form Phonological or gestural representation of a morpheme or word.
Meaning Refers to the conceptual or semantic aspect of a word or sentence that permits us to comprehend the message being conveyed. The linguistic sign has both a form (its pronunciation) and a meaning.
Prefix Bound morpheme that occurs before a root or stem of a word; affix that is attached to the beginning of a morpheme or word.
Suffix Bound morpheme that occurs after the root or stem of a word; affix that is attached to the end of a morpheme or word.
Acronym Word composed of the initials of several words. (World Wide Web = WWW)
Abbreviation Shortened form of a word.
Adjective A word that describes a thing, quality, state, or action which a noun refers to (e.g., heavy, blue, young, smart, etc.)
Article A word which is used with a noun, and which shows whether the noun refers to something definite or indefinite. For example, English has two articles: the definite article the, and the indefinite article a or an.
Grammar A description of the structure of a language and the way in which linguistic units such as words and phrases are combined to produce sentences in the language. takes into account the meanings and functions these sentences have.
Noun Nouns typically refer to people, animals, places, things, or abstractions.
Passive Voice/Active Voice Two sentences can differ in voice and yet have the same meaning. The wind damaged the fence. (active) The fence was damaged by the wind. (passive)
Pronoun A word which may replace a noun or a noun phrase. Subject pronouns (I, you, we, he, she, it, they, you); Object (me, you, us, him, her, it, them, you); Reflexive (myself, yourself, ourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourselves).
Tense The relationship between the form of the verb and the time of the action or state it describes. See the table below.
Verb In English, a word which occurs as the predicate of a sentence, carries markers of grammatical categories such as tense, person, number, etc., and refers to an action or state. For example: "she opened the door" or "he loves her"
Grammatical Category/syntactic class Parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adj.)
suppletive child/children; go/went
lexical gap When you make a word up that makes sense. Ice-creamer: someone who likes ice cream Chomsky-ite: someone who likes Chomsky
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