Phonetics & Phonology
Volume
What goes loud or soft?
Borrowing
What is importing words from other languages?
Verb subject
What does the action of the verb?
Semantic field
What is a group of lexemes with interrelated meanings?
Noun
What identifies things?
Vowel Reduction
What is a schwa?
Initialism
What is said as a series of letters?
Verb object
What has the action of the verb done to it?
Denotation
What is the literal meaning?
Adverb
What adds information to adjectives, verbs or other adverbs?
Stress
What is saying some words more strongly?
Acronym
What series of letters is said as a word?
Verb complement
What adds more information about another part of a phrase/clause?
Connotation
What is the additional meaning?
Prepositions
What provides information about space or time?
What goes from low to high?
What is a word reduction?
Ellipse
What is an incomplete utterance?
Broadening
What are additional meanings?
Proper nouns
What are names, countries or brands?
What takes capitals?
Tempo
What goes fast or slow?
Blend
What is a combination of 2 words to make a new one?
Phrase
What is a group of words that isn’t a sentence?
Narrowing
What are less meanings?
Interjections
What expresses spontaneous emotion?
Elision
What is the omission of a sound in connected speech?
Contraction
What is putting two word parts together with an apostrophe?
Adverbial
What behaves like an adverb but isn’t one?
Shift
What is a change in meaning?
Coordinating conjunctions
What are FANBOYS?
(Australian) Accent
What is broad, general or cultivated?
Conversion
What is changing a noun to a verb?
Nominalisation
What is changing a verb to a noun?
Elevation
What is a more positive meaning?
Possessive adjectives
What indicates possession?
Intonation
What is a pattern of pitch changes?
Collocation
Which words sound natural together?
Clause
What is a subject and verb together?
Deterioration
What is a more negative meaning?
Demonstratives
What identifies and shows location?