LING 1F94- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)

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The study of words and word formation. A word is a free form that can move in a sentence and has meaning. Derivational affix changes meaning or syntactic category. Inflectional affix provides extra information about a free morpheme but does not change category or meaning significantly. Allomorphs are the different phonetic manifestations of the same morphemes (morphemes who change their sound based on the neighbourhood they are in, voiced or voiceless) Writing system is also called an orthographic system and it does not tell us any grammatical information about the words. / (adj) \ (adj) \ (aff) (v) (aff) (aff) Lexical decision task: determining whether words are real or not (real words, nonwords and pseudowords) Response accuracy: response accurate (more accurate when you know it"s a word or not word) Frequency effect: some words are more frequent than other words and we are fastest to verify the legitimacy of a frequent word in a lexical decision task.