Phonology
The removal of a sound in a word or words in connected speech
What is elision?
Prosodic features can be remebered by this acronym
What is SPITV?
This is the smallest written unit that makes sense on its own
What is a free morpheme?
Common nouns can be divided into two types
What are concrete and abstract nouns?
"Friyay" is an example of this word formation
What is a blend?
Changing vowels sounds to sound like "a" in above
What is vowel reduction or schwa?
This feature might change when a person is angry or startled
What is volume?
This suffix or prefix does not make sense on its own.
What is a bound morpheme?
Melbourne; Nike; Germany; Sarah are all examples of these
What are proper nouns?
"Facebook" is an example of this word formation
What is a compound?
The addition of a sound into a word
What is insertion?
This describes the height of a sound
What is pitch?
This morpheme can change word class or meaning of the root word
What is a derivational morpheme?
In a compound verb, the first verb is called this
What is an auxiliary verb?
"brb" is an example of this word formation
What is initialism?
Changing a consonant sound to be more like the sound before or after it
What is assimilation?
This is added to create rhythm or emphasis on key syllables or words
What is stress?
These bound morphemes can only be a suffix
What is an inflectional morpheme?
The "your" in your book is this
What is a possessive determiner?
"cleaning up" is an example of this word formation
What is collocation?
"Pass me my hambag, I want my samwich" is an example of this
What is assimilation?
This can indicate a question, or possibly a speaker's nationality and gender.
What is High Rising Terminal?
Theses bound morphemes perform a grammatical purpose only
What are inflectional morphemes?
"Often" in He often ate peas is one of these
What is an adverb of frequency?
"Bandaid" is an example of this word formation
What is commonisation?
Stance, eye gaze,facial and hand gestures are these
What are paralinguistics?
Coughing, intake of breath or laughing are these
What are vocal effects?
Australians love to do this to the ends of nouns, verbs and adjectives
What is an Australian suffixation?
Modal verbs indicate this about teh main verb
What is the degree of modality or likelihood?
"Pizza, ciao and feng shui" are examples of this word formation
What is borrowing?