LEXICAL
AMBIGUITY
The presence of two or more possible meaning within a single word.
I saw her DUCK
DUCK: Verb and noun.
CONTRADICTION
Sentence A and B cannot both be true
1- Elizabeth II is Queen of England.
2-Elizabeth II is a man.
PARAPHRASE
Two sentences with the exact same meaning.
*Angela is an accurate typist.
*Angle types accurately.
STRUCTURAL
AMBIGUITY
Multiple possible sentence structures.
1- John said that Bill will leave yesterday.
2- John said that Bill will leave tomorrow.
ENTAILMENT
Sentence A asserts that sentence B is true.
1- It was Tom who took your jacket.
2- It was not me who took your jacket.
HOMONYMS
Words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning.
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Example: UN- -READ- -ABLE
LINGUISTICS: KEY TERMS
LAYERS OF MEANING
Pragmatic is the study of how context affects menaing. It is the intention the speaker has when is saying something.
Is the linguistic meaning of use of language.
HOMOPHONES
Words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings.
LAYERS OF FORM
STRUCTURE
Is the set of rules, principles, and processes that rule the structure of sentences.
IMPLIES
Is the study of the order of the syntactic components of languages, and how languages employ different orders.
Study of internal construction of words and their elements.
MORPHEMES
Suffix
Stem
Prefix
SOUNDS
Studies the production, audition and perception of speech sound in the human language.
If two sounds are allophones of the same phoneme, they are said to be in complementary distribution.
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Minimal pairs are words with different meanings that have the same sounds except for one.
Studies the physical
charasteristic of the sounds of human speech.
DIMENSIONS
1. Nasal.
2. Stop.
3. Fricative.
4. Affricative.
5. Approximant.
6. Lateral.
1. Voiceless speech sound.
2. Voiced speech sounds.
1. Dental.
2. Labiodental.
3. Bilabial.
4. Alveolar.
5. Post-alveolar.
6. Palatal.
7. Velar.
8. Glottal.
