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  1. What is the primary difference between a morpheme and a phoneme?

    Answer: A morpheme carries meaning; a phoneme is a unit of sound without inherent meaning.

    Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning; phonemes are the smallest units of sound.

  2. The term 'agglutinative language' describes a language where words are formed by:

    Answer: Stringing together multiple morphemes, each with a distinct meaning

    Agglutinative languages build words by attaching morphemes sequentially, each carrying one meaning.

  3. In phonetics, what is the difference between 'voiced' and 'voiceless' sounds?

    Answer: Voiced sounds involve vibration of the vocal cords; voiceless sounds do not.

    Voicing refers to whether the vocal cords vibrate: voiced (/b/, /d/, /g/) vs voiceless (/p/, /t/, /k/).

  4. What is a 'minimal pair' in linguistics?

    Answer: Two words that differ in only one phoneme and have different meanings

    Minimal pairs differ in exactly one phoneme: 'bat' vs 'cat' (b/c), 'ship' vs 'sheep' (short i/long e).

  5. Which linguistic concept describes the phenomenon where the same word has different stress patterns depending on whether it functions as a noun or a verb?

    Answer: Noun-verb stress shift (heteronym pair)

    Noun-verb stress shift: nouns stress the first syllable, verbs stress the second (e.g., PER-mit vs per-MIT).

  6. What is the term for the smallest unit of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word?

    Answer: Phoneme

    A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes meaning between words.