Phonology & Phonetics
What is VTIPS?
Example: He should absoBLOODYlutely have made that goal.
What is an Infix?
The five sentence structures are...
What is fragment, simple, compound, complex, compound-complex?
A word that imitates the source of the sound it describes.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Most frequently used letter of the English alphabet.
What is E?
Regular two-turn exchanges in spoken discourse. e.g.: A: How are you? B: I'm fine, thanks. And you?
What is an adjacency pair?
A type of abbreviation where the letters are pronounced as a full word.
What is an acronym?
Refers to the formality and or informality of the language in a spoken or written discourse.
What is register?
The broad category of the text that must be supported by lexical choices employed throughout a text.
What is semantic field?
Most frequently used English word in the world.
What is the?
The distinctive sound units in a language.
What is a phoneme?
The mnemonic to remember the elements of morphological patterning.
What is 6C ABBAS DIN?
Example: “Study harder at home.” (Sentence type)
What is imperative?
Example: 'My last SAC result was a death sentence'
What is a metaphor?
“Bandit,” “critic,” and “unreal” were all coined by...
What is William Shakespeare?
The four connected speech processes are ...
What is Assimilation, Vowel Reduction, Elision, Insertion?
Two types of bound morphemes.
What is derivational and inflectional?
Example: 'The brown cat jumped over the table' (specific clause element)
What is an adverbial?
When it is not possible to determine the intended meaning of a particular lexeme.
What is lexical ambiguity?
Country with the second highest number of English speakers in the world.
What is India?
Positive verbal noises made by listeners to indicate to the speaker that they approve what they are saying but do not want to interrupt.
What is back channelling?
When a word that is no longer commonplace in society has been used.
What is an archaism?
Example: 'The brown cat jumped over the table' (specific clause element)
What is a subject-complement?
Example: 'This essay explores critical issues'
What is an animation?
The only letter in English that is never silent.
What is V?
Expressions which reduce the force of what is being said so that modesty or uncertainty can be displayed.
What is a hedge?
Inflectional morphomese are used to inflect __________, or ________.
What is tense on verbs and plurality?
Example: 'Don’t work too much' (phrase type)
What is adverb phrase?
An example of an oxymoron....
“Checkmate” comes from a Persian phrase which translates to...
What is 'the king is dead'?
There is a predictable pattern in the acquisition of inflectional affixed in children. List the first three.
What is –ing, plural –s, possessive –’s?
Lexical bundles of words that usually co-exist.
What is collocation?
Parallelisms that contain two contrastive elements, evoking thought from the audience.
What is antithesis?
Provide a euphemism and a dyphemism of 'toilet'
A capitonym is a word that changes meaning when capitalized. Example?
What is turkey?