You should be able to define/describe the significance the following:
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inflection |
manner of articulation |
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concord (agreement) |
place of articulation |
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synthetic language |
phoneme |
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function word |
morpheme |
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bound morpheme |
free morpheme |
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diachronic |
synchronic |
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displacement |
analytic |
You should be able to provide the inflectional suffixes of present-day English and identify (define) their function/meaning.
You should be able to divide a word into its constituent morphemes.
You should be able to "translate" some phonetic transcription by rewriting it into equivalent English spelling.
You should be able to transcribe your own name phonetically.
You should be able to identify possible/impossible sequences of English phonemes.