Phonetics and phonology
A manner of articulation with a total blockage of the airflow.
What is a stop?
Words in their own right.
What are free morphemes?
Words that are always capitalised and name specific things.
What are proper nouns?
Minimally consists of a subject and a verb.
What are clauses?
The study of the origins of words and the historic development of their form and meaning.
What is etymology?
Sounds produced when the air is not blocked on its passage from the lungs.
What are vowels?
Additions to bound morphemes that change meaning or word class.
What are derivational morphemes?
Words that name groups of animals, people and things.
What are collective nouns?
They contain at least two main clauses, joined together by a subordinating conjunction.
What are complex sentences?
The implied meaning in addition to how it is defined in the dictionary.
What is connotation?
When the tongue starts in one place and moves to another to produce a vowel sound.
What is diphthong?
A morphological process whereby a group of letters is attached to a base or root word to form a new word
What is affixation?
Words that exist to form a job such as conveying grammaticial information.
What are function words?
Sentences function to ask a question.
What are interrogative sentences?
When a lexeme takes on a more negative meaning than it once had
What is deterioration?
When sounds change to become more like their neighbouring sounds.
What is assimilation?
When parts of two words create a new one such as 'bromance'.
What are blends?
The degree of formality of a text.
What is register?
The person or object that is involved in the action.
What is the subject?
When lexemes can be grouped with others that have interrelated meanings.
What is a semantic field or domain?
Refers to the 'height' of a sound in auditory terms, from low to high.
What is pitch?
When words, especially in Australian English, are created by shortening them and adding onto the end. Usually for colloquialisms.
What is suffixation?
The process of creating new words by putting two free morphemes together.
What is compounding?
Single words, phrases or clauses that provide extra information about an element, typically in relation to time, place or manner.
What are adverbials?
A lexeme widens its meaning to mean more than it once did while retaining its original meaning.
What is broadening?