Review for Test 1

You should be able to define/describe the significance the following:

inflection

manner of articulation

concord (agreement)

place of articulation

synthetic language

phoneme

function word

morpheme

bound morpheme

free morpheme

diachronic

synchronic

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.

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