Phonetics and phonology
A sound made when the airstream is partially blocked by two speech organs coming together, creating friction.
What is a fricative?
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?
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?
The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning. It is the array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in addition to its dictionary definition. They can be either positive, negative, or neutral.
What is connotation?
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 domain?
It is a sound change that results in a vowel becoming less pronounced, often more central. It is perceived as "weakening" and it requires less time and energy.
What is vowel reduction?
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?
It serves a variety of functions in text comprehension. Among other things, it can be used to identify an unclearly pronounced word, to resolve a lexical ambiguity, to determine the referent of a pronoun, and to compute an intended message from a literal meaning.
What function does inference serve?