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REVIEW GUIDE for THE MIDTERM EXAM

The mid-term examination will consist of three parts. For the first part, you need to define and explain 10 out of the key concepts below. The second part will be three questions selected from the exercises I collected and graded and the exercises from each of the chapters we will have covered by the mid-term exam. The third part will be two essay questions that are related to the topics discussed in class.
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generative grammar, semantics, mentalist theory, lexical decomposition, speaker sense, synonymy, homonyms, anaphora, coreference, prototype, analytical sentence, denotational theory, syntax, constituent structure, transformational rules, phrasal categories, structural ambiguity, phrase structure rules, nodes, underlying structure, NP-movement, competence and performance, conjunction test, extraposition, particle movement, discontinuous dependency, morpheme, grammatical morpheme, bond morpheme, prefix, derivational affix, inflectional affix, category extension, compounding, phonemic, allophone, distinctive feature, complementary distribution, phonological rule, assimilation rule, affricate, manner of articulation.