Phonetics and phonology
When a sound changes to become more like a neighbouring sound.
What is assimilation?
Words in their own right.
What are free morphemes?
Words that are always capitalised and name specific things.
What are proper nouns?
A clause that is not able to stand alone in a sentence.
What are subordinating or dependent clauses?
The study of the origins of words and the historic development of their form and meaning.
What is etymology?
A simple vowel that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation; that is, the tongue does not move when making this sound.
What is a monophthong?
Additions to bound morphemes that do not change meaning or word class.
What are inflectional morphemes?
Words (or phrases) that express a sudden or strong emotion or feeling.
What are interjections?
They contain at least two main clauses, joined together by a coordinate conjunction.
What are compound sentences?
The literal meaning as it is defined in the dictionary.
What is denotation?
The omission (deletion) of a sound in connected speech.
What is elision?
Morphemes that can be added in the middle of a word.
What is infix?
Words made up of the beginning letters in a sequence of words, but continue to be said as a series of letters.
What are initialisms?
Sentences function to provide information, observations or statements.
What are declarative sentences?
When a lexeme takes on a more positive meaning than it once had
What is elevation?
Concerns the speed at which we speak and can serve a variety of functions.
What is tempo?
The semantic base or centre of a word.
What is a root word (or, root morpheme)?
Verbs that modify and change some aspect of a main verb.
What are auxiliary verbs?
The person or object that is involved in the action.
What is the direct object?
When lexemes can be grouped with others that have interrelated meanings.
What is a semantic field or domain?
The pattern of pitch changes in speech.
What is intonation?
Morphemes that change the meaning of words, create new words and can sometimes change the word class.
What are derivational morphemes?
Common nouns that are touchable or can be known through the senses.
What are concrete nouns?
Single words, phrases or clauses that provide extra information about an element, typically in relation to time, place or manner.
What are adverbials?
When a lexems takes on a new meaning and loses its original meaning.
What is semantic shift?