Who defined word as “the smallest structural piece that can be surrounded by pauses.”?
Dixon and Aikhenvald (2002)
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WHAT IS A FREE MORPHEME?
It is a minimal shape that can be used in discourse with no other forms attached to it
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What is a suprafix?
It is a regular morphological process that adjusts the shapes of words by changing pitch, tone, or stress.
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Why the articles a and the are clitics?
Because they attach phonologically to whatever word that follows
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WHAT ARE DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES?
Morphemes added to roots to create new stems
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How Ea´glero`ck receives stress?
Ea´glero`ck receives only one primary stress on Eagle, and a secondary stress on rock
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Give some examples to lexical ambiguity
Bank, oil, chair
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What is articulatory phonetics?
It identifies precisely which speech organs and muscles are involved in producing the different sounds of the world’s languages
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When the International Phonetic Alphabet was proposed?
in 1888
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What is variation within the accent?
Difference depending on the speakers’ physical characteristics, or geographical location, or because some speakers have adopted a new form or word or sound
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What is Auditory phonetics?
It is concerned with the perception of speech by the hearer
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Where is the alveolar ridge?(organ in human body)
In the upper surface, behind the upper teeth, there is a bumpy area
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Give examples to palato-alveolar sounds
/S, Z, tS, dZ/ (exemplified by the final consonants of fish, garage, rich, ridge, respectively)
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In a stop sound, the release of the closure is quick and abrupt; however, in sounds where the closure release is gradual, it creates friction. Such sounds are called...