Key Linguistics Vocabulary

The study of the ​smallest ​units of ​speech that make one word different from another word is:

The identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as root words, affixes, parts of speech, intonations and stresses, or implied context is

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language is:

The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning is:

The ​study of how ​language is ​affected by the ​situation in which it is used, of how ​language is used to get things or ​perform ​actions, and of how words can ​express things that are different from what they ​appear to ​mean is:

The ​study of how ​language is used by different ​groups in ​society is:

The ​process by which ​messages or ​information is ​sent from one ​place or ​person to another, or the ​message itself is:

All the words used in a ​particular ​language or ​subject, or a ​dictionary are:

Which of the following describe descriptive grammar?

Which of the following describe prescriptive grammar?

Which of the following describe Standard English

a ​form of a ​language that is ​spoken in a ​particular ​part of a ​country or by a ​particular ​group of ​people and that ​contains some words, ​grammar, or ​pronunciations (= the ​ways in which words are said) that are different from the ​forms used in other ​parts or by other ​groups This definition matches which of the following terms?

Which of the following are vowels?

Which of the following are consonants?

The ​sounds /w/, /l/, and /r/ are ​examples of approximants in ​English.

English has two liquid phonemes, one lateral, /l/ and one rhotic, /ɹ/, exemplified in the words led and red.

Glide consonants, also known as semivowels /j/ /w/. Sounds with little or no obstruction to the airstream in the mouth.

The /s/ in "said" and the /z/ in "​zoo" are fricatives.

P is an unvoiced sound (no vibration of the vocal cords) and B is a voiced sound (vocal cords vibrate).

Linguistics is the study of the way animals move and work together.