Linguistics by Anelda Phillips

Word Stress and Sentence Stress (28693299

phillipsanelda — 2018-04-30 07:51:24 UTC

Word Stress and Sentence Stress are key when speaking and understanding the English language.

Word stress refers to the strongest (loudest)or stressed syllable being identified or said resulting in correct pronunciation and understanding. The weaker syllable is quieter and not as distinct, but is necessary to form the word. This accented syllable can shift, altering the pronunciation.
Example: PHOtograph
: phoTOgrapher

Sentence stress is when one word in a sentence is stressed whilst the other words are quieter. Two or more words can be stressed in a sentence and these are referred to as strong (loud) words and the other words in the sentence are weak (quiet words. Sentence stress can change the meaning of the sentence
Example: I LOVE studying English- I don't just like it, I love it
: I love studying English- not necessarily everyone likes to study English.

Exam Questions
1. Indentify the syllable stressed in each word: desert, desert, photograph, photographer.(4x2=8)
Answer: desert, desert, photograph, photographer

2. Identify the stressed words in each sentence: We want to go. We want to go to town.(5x2=10)
Answers: We want to go. We want to go to town
Total:18 marks

Word Stress and Sentence Stress (28693299

phillipsanelda — 2018-04-30 08:51:45 UTC

Voice recording on the importance of word and sentence stress

K Frauendorf 29044774 Syntax

klarisfra — 2018-04-30 09:50:46 UTC

Syntax is the set of rules, principles and processes that governs the arrangement of word structure to create well-formed sentences in a given language.

Syntax is about what word comes before or after another this makes it part of the larger subject of grammar.

Syntax is often an issue in the world of poetry and it’s usually in connection with the poets choice of words for example the syntatic difference beween: “whose woods are these I think I know” and “ I think I know whose woods these are.”

Syntax involves in the arrangement of words to create logical phrases,clauses and sentences.

K Frauendorf 29044774

klarisfra — 2018-05-02 13:59:06 UTC

K Frauendorf 29044774

klarisfra — 2018-05-02 13:59:10 UTC

K Frauendorf 29044774 Difference between Shakespearean and present syntax use.

klarisfra — 2018-05-02 13:59:19 UTC

The mos common sentence in modern English follows a familiar pattern.

S - Subject
V - Verb
O - Object

To illustrate this using a perfectly understood sentence.

John caught the ball.

```
John - Subject
```
```
caught - Verb 
```
```
the ball - Object
```

But Shakespeare frequently used a deal of the inversion SOV.

John the ball caught.

```
S - John
```
```
O - the ball
```
```
V - Caught
```

This is mostly found in Germanic languages from which English derives much of its syntactical foundation.

Shakespeare bent
language in peculiar ways.
He had a habit of violating
our conventional grammatical categories, so that nouns became verbs and
adjectives were turned into nouns.

K Frauendorf

klarisfra — 2018-05-02 14:00:54 UTC

Branches of Linguistics- 29642817

biankaroos1996 — 2018-05-02 20:05:11 UTC

Phonetics - it studies how speech sounds are received, transmitted and articulated.
Phonology - it can he seen as the functional phonetics of a specific language. It studies ways speech sounds are organized.
Morphology - is the study of the formation of words. It is a linguistic that break words into morphemes.
Semantics - it has to do with the study of meaning in its formal aspects.
Pragmatics - is the study of language in use in context

B Roos - 29642817

biankaroos1996 — 2018-05-02 20:40:51 UTC

B Roos - 29642817

biankaroos1996 — 2018-05-03 07:20:12 UTC

Questions for linguistics - 29642817

biankaroos1996 — 2018-05-03 07:28:26 UTC

1. "ed" and "ing" are examples of-
A. Prefixes
B. Suffixes
C. Infixes. (1)

2. Variant of a morpheme is called a/an -
A. Phoneme
B. Allomorph
C. Allophone. (1)

Answers
1. B. Suffixes
2. A. Phoneme

Morphology

biankaroos1996 — 2018-05-05 07:28:56 UTC

Most important branch of linguistics
Bianka Roos - 29642817

Importance of linguistics

biankaroos1996 — 2018-05-05 07:33:32 UTC

Bianka Roos - 29642817

K Frauendorf 29044774

klarisfra — 2018-05-05 07:44:38 UTC

K Frauendorf 29044774 Exam Questions.

klarisfra — 2018-05-05 07:58:30 UTC

1. Which of these is the best definition of syntax?
(A) The study of the rules governing specifically the sounds that form words.
(B) The study of the rules governing sentence formation.
(C) The study of the rules governing word formation

Answer: B

2.In which sentence(s) do the dots replace a verb?
(A) They can ...
(B) They can ... them
(C) He has no ..

Answer: A and B