PSY BEH 11B Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Vocabulary
26 May 2016
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The smallest significant unit of sound in a language. The smallest significant unit of meaning in a word. A morpheme that carries the main semantic and referential content of a sentence. In english content morphemes are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs. A morpheme that, while adding such content as time, mode, individuation, and evidentiality, also serves a grammatical purpose (e. g, the suffixes -s and -er, or the connecting words and or if) The regular principles governing how words can be assembled into sentences. A geometric representation of the structure of a sentence. Its nodes are labeled with phrase- (e. g. , noun phase) and word-class (e. g. , adjective) category names, and the descending branches indicate relationships among these categories. A tree diagram or labeled bracketing that shows the hierarchical structure of a sentence. The theory that mental representations of word meanings consist of a necessary and sufficient set of semantic features.
