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Review ALL of your class notes (make sure you've gotten notes from any classes you may have missed). Review ALL of the chapter reading assignments and homework problems.

Terms & Concepts

• language
• linguistics
• 6 core disciplines of linguistics
• phonetics; three branches
• woodwind metaphor -- three levels of modulated cyclicity
• anatomy of vocal tract -- places of articulation
• phonology; inventory, combinations, modifications
• phoneme, allophone
• morpheme
• bound, free;
• prefix, suffix, infix, affix;
• derivation, inflection
• columns in a position class chart (PCC) account for relative ordering of morphemes; what other three characteristics are reflected in a PCC?

Skills

• IPA symbols; phonetic chart; transcription
• phonological analysis (solving phonology problems)
• morphological analysis (solving morphology problems)