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Unit 10: Review

Learning outcomes

By the end of this unit you should:

  • know the XXX key terms related to patterns and language
  • have practised explaining and comparing logical terms
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Review activities

Activity 1: Basic pattern vocabulary

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

  1. pattern vs. random
  2. repetition vs. pattern
  3. predictability vs. repetition
  4. random vs. predictability
tense signs

Activity 2: Language systems

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

  1. phonetic vs. phonological
  2. syntactic vs. discoursal
  3. lexical vs. grammatical
  4. situational vs. functional
  5. grammatical vs. pragmatic
tense signs

Activity 3: Vocabulary to discuss verb patterns

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

  1. time vs. tense
  2. tense vs. aspect
  3. aspect vs. modality
  4. progessive aspect vs. simple
  5. perfect aspect vs. simple
tense signs

Activity 4: Vocabulary to discuss pronunciation

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain each of the following terms and provide examples.

  1. intonation
  2. stress
  3. sounds
  4. linking
tense signs

Activity 5: Understand how words link together

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain what linkages occur (if any) between the following pairs of words.

  1. point to
  2. point at
  3. point with
  4. point down
tense signs

Activity 6: Technical terminology to discuss pronunciation

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

  1. rising intonation vs. falling intonation
  2. attitudinal intonation vs. grammatical intonation
  3. word stress vs. sentence stress
  4. stressed syllables vs. unstressed syllables
  5. primary stress vs. secondary stress
  6. vowels vs. consonants
tense signs

Activity 7: Technical terminology to discuss lexical patterns

Explan.

  1. collocation
  2. cohesion
  3. coherence

Activity 8: Regular expressions - terms  

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

  1. literal character vs metacharacter
  2. match vs capture
  3. greedy vs ungreedy
  4. anchors vs assertions
terminator

Activity 9: Regular expressions - application

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Find regular expressions that can find:

  1. words beginning withe the letters: a, e, i, o and u.
  2. the passive voice for regular verbs in past tense (e.g. was cleaned)
  3. all words beginning with vowel sounds
  4. all instances of passive voice for regular verbs
terminator

Activity 10: Providing examples of verb tensess

Work alone, in pairs or threes. Explain each of the following terms.

  1. natural language processing (NLP)
  2. NLP pipeline
  3. part-of-speech (POS) tagging
  4. POS tagset
  5. dependency parsing
  6. parse tree
  7. NLP Compromise
  8. Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK)
verb word cloud

Master list

Activity 11: Vocabulary

This list contains of the important technical terms related to time and tense. The terms are grouped by the unit in which they were introduced.

Work alone, in pairs or groups. Describe, explain and provide examples for each of these terms.

  1. repetition
  2. predictability
  3. pattern
  4. random
  5. apophenia
  6. Rorschach test

  7. orthographical
  8. phonetic
  9. phonological
  10. semantic
  11. morphological
  12. lexical
  13. grammatical
  14. syntactical
  15. discoursal
  16. pragmatic
  17. situational
  18. functional

  19. verb types
  20. lexical verbs
  21. auxiliary verbs
  22. modal auxiliary verbs
  23. finiteness
  24. finite verbs
  25. non-finite verbs
  26. tense
  27. present tense
  28. past tense
  29. aspect
  30. perfect aspect
  31. progressive aspect
  32. future aspect
  33. voice
  34. passive voice
  35. active voice
  36. transitivity
  37. intransitive
  38. transitive
  39. agreement
  40. subject-verb agreement

  41. vowel
  42. consonant
  43. monovowel
  44. diphthong
  45. short vowel
  46. long vowel
  47. word stress
  48. sentence stress
  49. grammatical intonation
  50. attitudinal intonation
  51. falling intonation
  52. rising intonation

  53. collocation
  54. cohesion
  55. coherence

  56. literal character
  57. metacharacter
  58. match
  59. capture
  60. greedy
  61. ungreedy
  62. anchors
  63. assertions

  64. natural language processing (NLP)
  65. NLP pipeline
  66. part-of-speech (POS) tagging
  67. POS tagset
  68. dependency parsing
  69. parse tree
  70. NLP Compromise
  71. Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK)

Review

If you are not sure of the meaning of any of the technical terms above, ask a question in the discussion forum on ELMS.

Running count: 71 of 71 pattern-related concepts covered so far.