Terms and Names
Check the "last updated" item at the bottom of the screen. Terms and names agree with those used in the lecture and readings up to the "last updated" date. This web page is updated within a few days after each lecture. You will not be responsible for terms listed here for lectures that have not yet taken place.
There will be no definition questions on the test and exam as such. However, you will be responsible for being able to use all of the terms and names appropriately in your answers to test and exam questions.
Terms and Names- Introduction
- Noam Chomsky
- Channel
- Sign
- Arbitrary and Iconic
- Onomatopoeia
Terms - Conversation
- back channel
- gaze
- floor
- rising intonation (style of narrating)
Terms - Text
- competence and performance
- text
- string
- formulas
Terms - Syntax
- grammatical
- acceptable
- agreement
- number
- gender - syntactic and social/biological
Terms - Morphology
- morpheme
- zero morpheme
- position
- allomorph
- affix
- prefix
- suffix
- infix
Terms and Names - Language, Meaning and Culture
- (Sapir-) Whorf hypothesis
- Hopi
- SAE
- Michael Agar
- rich points
- schmäh
- Lakoff and Johnson
- metaphoric systems
- symbolic classifications
- yin / yang
Terms - Phonology
- phoneme
- allophone
- phone
- mutually exclusive position
- minimal pair
Terms - Language and Social Identity
- standard and non-standard variety
- hegemony
- solidarity
- formality
- cultural capital
Terms - Phonetics
- acoustic phonetics
- articulatory phonetics
- place of articulation
- manner of articulation
- linguistic transcription
- emic and etic
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