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Chapter 1: From Language to Linguistics
Compositionality,
Recursion,
Constructed languages
13
cards
Chapter 2: The Language User
Linguistic performance,
Communicative competence,
Mental lexicon
30
cards
Chapter 3: Language Acquisition
Innate language faculty,
Language environment,
Acquisition though interaction
30
cards
Chapter 4: Discourse
Conversational implicature,
Cooperation principle,
Maxims
16
cards
Chapter 5: Speech Acts
Locution,
Illocution,
Performative verbs
12
cards
Chapter 6: Constituents and Word Classes
Word classes,
Clause,
Phrase
21
cards
Chapter 7: Simple Sentences
Argument,
Adjuncts,
Valency
31
cards
Chapter 8: Complex Sentences
Main clause,
Complement clause,
Adverbial clause
16
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Chapter 9: Constituent Order
Declarative clauses,
Basic constituent order,
Interrogative clauses
9
cards
Chapter 10: Sentence Meaning
Compositional meaning,
Meaning,
Semantics
27
cards
Chapter 11: Lexicon
Clitic,
Iconicity,
Open word classes
17
cards
Chapter 12: Word Formation
Internally simple words,
Morphemes,
Morphology
25
cards
Chapter 13: Compounds and Idiomatic Expressions
Head,
Endocentric compound,
Exocentric compounds
7
cards
Chapter 14: Speaking and Listening - Speech Sounds
Speech chain,
Phonetics,
Pharynx
42
cards
Chapter 15: Sound Systems and Phonological Processes
Distinctiveness,
Minimal pairs,
Phoneme
11
cards
Chapter 16: Syllables, Stress and Intonation
Syllables,
Syllabification,
Onset
13
cards
Chapter 17: Differences and Similarities between Languages
Typological similarities,
Areal similarities,
Sprachbund
10
cards
Chapter 18: Language Variation
Sociolinguistics,
Dialect,
Language variety
19
cards
Chapter 19: Language Change
Morphological change,
Syntactic change,
Lexical change
13
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Chapter 20: Bilingualism
Multilingualism,
Language shift,
Language loss
20
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