Ling 1 Midterm Study Guide

Syntax
Constituents and Constituent Tests
Hierarchical Tree Diagrams
Relations between grammatical rules and language generativity
Recursion in syntactic rules
Embedded sentences
Structural versus Lexical Ambiguity
Parsing

Semantics
Feature, Imagistic and Neurobiological Accounts of Semantics (pros and cons)
Compositional and non-Compositional aspects of language use
Griceian Maxims: quantity, relevance, manner, quality
Entailment, Tautologies, Contradictions
Polysemy, Homonym, & Hyponymy

Phonetics
Manners and Places of Articulation
Representation of Vowels
Consonants, Vowels, Dipthongs, Glides
Oral versus nasal consonants
Anatomy of speech articulation
IPA representations for English words

Phonology
Phonemes and Phonetics
Allophones, Allomorphs
Complementary distribution
Phonological Processes and Rules: Assimilation, Dissimilation, Palatalization, Epenthesis
Please check out the data and problem on described on pages 262-264, be familiar with this
type of analysis.