Phonetics and Phonology
Volume, Pitch, Intonation, Stress, Tempo
What are prosodic features?
The smallest unit of meaning
What is a morpheme?
A word that has been invented, sometimes with no identifiable root. e.g.muggle
What is a neologism?
Clean up the mess you made!
What is an imperative sentence?
The dictionary definition of a lexeme
What is denotation?
Leaving out sounds - 'av for have
What is elision?
Denotes the gender or pluralisation of a noun in Old English
What are inflectional morphemes?
Proper nouns becoming common nouns - google, bandaid, esky
What is commonisation?
A sentence with one verb phrase.
What is a simple sentence?
The study of the origins of words and the historic development of their form and meaning.
What is etymology?
The addition of sounds where they previously didn't exist.
-> Film = fillum.
What is insertion?
Can stand alone with meaning, can be considered a lexeme
What is a free morpheme?
Auxiliary verbs that alter necessity or possibility. Must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might
What is a modal verb?
Exclamative, imperative, declarative, interrogative
What are the sentence types?
A type of semantic change whereby the contexts in which a word can appear are reduced.
-> Liqour = liquid => alcholic beverage.
What is narrowing?
Unstressed vowel [ə] made in the middle of the mouth.
-> [faðə] = father.
What is a schwa?
Reducing the length of a word - probs, bro
What is a shortening?
Describe position in time, space and attitude - in, at, according to, underneath
What is a preposition?
The person/thing being affected by the verb - I killed Voldemort
Object
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
What is a connotation?
Sounds change according to the company they keep, or the sounds they are near.
-> Handbag = hambag.
What is assimilation?
A morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem. In English, only swear-words or words of emotion can do this.
Infix
The words in a sentences that have independent, real world meanings.
What is a content word?
A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, joined by a co-ordinating conjunction. 2+ verbs, co-ordinating conjunctions only.
What is a compound sentence?
A type of connotation in which a word takes on a better connotative meaning than its denotative meaning.
What is elevation?