Phonetics & Phonology
Morphology & Lexicology
Syntax
Discourse
Semantics
Other Metalanguage
100
Volume, Pitch, Intonation, Stress, Tempo
What are prosodic features?
100
Reducing the length of a word - probs, bro
What is a shortening?
100
Joins words, phrases or clauses. There are two types -co-ordinating and subordinating
What is a conjunction?
100
The practice of alternating between two or more languages or dialects in conversation
What is code-switching?
100
The study of the origin of words
What is etymology?
100
Describes how informal or formal a text is.
What is the register?
200
Leaving out sounds - 'av for have
What is elision?
200
A person, place, thing, idea
What is a noun?
200
A sentence that requests or commands. Most often starts with the verb and omits the subject..
What is an imperative?
200
Facial expressions, body gestures, body language, eye gaze
What are paralinguistic features?
200
A group of words that belong to the same category.
What is a semantic field or domain?
200
Spoken, written or signed communication
What is the mode?
300
The vowel sound lessens - schwa
What is vowel reduction?
300
Adds meaning to a verb, adverb or adjective
What is an adverb?
300
Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex, fragment
What is a sentence structure?
300
Holding, passing, taking the floor
What is turn-taking?
300
When a word's meaning changes over time to mean something different
What is shift?
300
The main reason a communication exists
What is function?
400
A sound is changed to become more similar to a neighbouring vowel.
What is assimilation?
400
Proper nouns becoming common nouns - google, bandaid, esky
What is commonisation?
400
An incomplete sentence that leaves the audience wanting...
What is an ellipses?
400
FLICCC
What is coherence?
400
When a word's meaning changes over time to encompass more meanings.
What is broadening?
400
A common language
What is Lingua franca?
500
Sounds are added in connected speech
What is insertion?
500
The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance. E.g. strong tea, not *powerful tea.
What is collocation?
500
An additional piece of information about the verb - IN THE MORNING, the teacher came to school
What is an adverbial?
500
laughter, whispers...
What are vocal effects?
500
Usually a child uses one word to name many things that may have something in common.
What is semantic over-generalisation?
500
English is descended from this hypothetical language
What is the Indo-European language family?
600
What is a schwa
600
A morphological change where we add affixation, but it doesn't change the essential meaning of the root word.
What is inflection?
600
Subject, Verb, Object (SVO)
What is word order?
600
pauses, filled pauses/voiced hesitations, false starts, repetition, repairs...
What are non-fluency features?
600
Reading between the lines (HINT: the use of ellipses requires us to make an...)
What is inference?
600
Norfuk, Roper River, Butler English
What are types of Creoles?