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LING 1020 Exam 1
Term | Definition |
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Phonology | Consonants, place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicing |
Morpheme Definition | Smallest unit of language that links sound and meaning |
Syntax | How words combine together |
Isolating | Individual morphemes act as words |
Agglutinative | Morphemes are phonologically joined together |
Fusional | Morphemes are phonologically joined together; morphemes may encode more than one meaning |
Cognate Definition | A word form in one language that has similar phonological form and meaning to a word form in another language because both languages inherited the word from a shared ancestor language. |
Intransitive | Subject of a verb with no object (S of intransitive) |
Transitive | subject of a verb with an object (A of transitive) |
Accusative Alignment | Intransitive / Transitive |