Phonetics and phonology
An alphabet developed in the 19th century to accurately represent the pronunciation of languages.
What is the IPA?
Morphemes that can stand alone.
What are free morphemes?
Words that name a person, place or thing.
What are nouns?
Consists of one independent clause.
What are simple sentences?
The implied meaning as it is used in society.
What is connotation?
The pitch, intonation, stress, volume, and tempo of speech.
What are prosodic features?
Morphemes that can be added in the middle of a word.
What is infix?
Words which modify other words.
What is an adverb?
Sentences which function to give instructions.
What are imperative sentences?
The literal meaning as it is defined in the dictionary.
What is denontation?
Concerns the speed at which we speak.
What is tempo?
Morphemes that change the meaning of words, create new words and can sometimes change the word class.
What are derivational morphemes?
Words which link two nearby words to indicate how they relate to each other, i.e 'in' or 'on'.
What are prepositions?
What is the sentence type of this: 'Are you walking home later?'
What are interrogatives?
What is the semantic field of this game?
What is linguistics/English Language?
The way our sentences change when asking a question.
Rising intonation
Bound morphemes which change grammatical information of the root word.
What are inflectional morphemes?
What does FANBOYS stand for?
They contain at least two dependant clauses, joined together by a coordinating conjunction.
What are compound sentences?
When people (often children) make inferences that extend the meaning of a word beyond its accepted use.
What is semantic over-generalisation?
The omission (deletion) of a sound in connected speech.
What is elision?
Label this morpheme - running
What is an inflectional bound morpheme?
The word class of 'a', 'an', 'the'.
What are determiners?
Words which create dependent clauses i.e 'while'
What are subordinating conjunctions?
The study of the origins of words and the historic development of their form and meaning.
What is etymology?