Linguistics 1 Ucla Final Study Guide UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. Phonology sound patterns
2. Lexicon Mental Dictionary
3. Morphology 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
4. Syntax Building phrases and sentences
5. Semantics Meaning of language
6. Grammar rules governing a language
7. What is perfor- - memory limitation
mance affected - shifts in attention and interest
by? - psychological and physical states
- linguistics and non-linguistic context
8. Spoonerism speech or performance error in which sounds or words are transposed
9. Garden Path Sen- grammatically correct but easily misunderstood
tences
10. prescriptive how we should speak
grammar
11. Descriptive Rules people actually follow
grammar
12. Laws of grammar that all languages follow
, Linguistics 1 Ucla Final Study Guide UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Universal Gram-
mar
13. Universal Rules - 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
14. Recursive Rules: "and", connects independent clauses
Coordination
15. Recursive Rules: "that", connects dependent clauses
Subordination
16. Types of Mor- compounding - combine 2 or more free morphemes
phology Aflxation - adding prefixes and/or suflxes
Reduplication
etc
17. Word Trees used to describe compound words
18. Grammatical Determines lexical category (English is right most word)
properties of - syntactic category
Head - meaning
- inflectional ending - added to head
19. Prepositions and closed class - don't admit new membz
Pronouns
20. Nouns/Verbs/Adjs/OApednvcslass - can be added to
Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. Phonology sound patterns
2. Lexicon Mental Dictionary
3. Morphology 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
4. Syntax Building phrases and sentences
5. Semantics Meaning of language
6. Grammar rules governing a language
7. What is perfor- - memory limitation
mance affected - shifts in attention and interest
by? - psychological and physical states
- linguistics and non-linguistic context
8. Spoonerism speech or performance error in which sounds or words are transposed
9. Garden Path Sen- grammatically correct but easily misunderstood
tences
10. prescriptive how we should speak
grammar
11. Descriptive Rules people actually follow
grammar
12. Laws of grammar that all languages follow
, Linguistics 1 Ucla Final Study Guide UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Universal Gram-
mar
13. Universal Rules - 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
14. Recursive Rules: "and", connects independent clauses
Coordination
15. Recursive Rules: "that", connects dependent clauses
Subordination
16. Types of Mor- compounding - combine 2 or more free morphemes
phology Aflxation - adding prefixes and/or suflxes
Reduplication
etc
17. Word Trees used to describe compound words
18. Grammatical Determines lexical category (English is right most word)
properties of - syntactic category
Head - meaning
- inflectional ending - added to head
19. Prepositions and closed class - don't admit new membz
Pronouns
20. Nouns/Verbs/Adjs/OApednvcslass - can be added to
