The System of Rules That Governs How We Assign Meaning

question 145

Multiple Choice

The system of rules that governs how we assign meaning to the morphemes we use is called __________

• A) syntax.
• B) semantics.
• C) phonology.
• D) regularization.

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Definitions:

New Deal

Public work projects, a series of regulatory actions, and financial reforms implemented in the 1930s in the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to tackle the Great Depression.

Political Group

An organization or a collective of people who come together based on shared political interests, objectives, or ideologies.

Progressives

A group or movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America that pursued reforms to address social, economic, and political issues.

Dust Bowl

Great Plains counties where millions of tons of topsoil were blown away from parched farmland in the 1930s; massive migration of farm families followed.