Lexical and Morphological
A morpheme added at the end of a word
What is a suffix
A small unit of sound
What is a phoneme?
Passing the floor
What is it called when you finish your run and let someone else speak?
Semantic field
What is the broader category of a text?
A sentence that asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence type?
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
What is a verb?
The omission of sounds in a word
Elision
The relationship between speakers, usually influenced by social distance.
What is tenor?
Associations with a word
Connotations
The person or thing carrying out a verb.
What is the subject in a sentence?
A morpheme that changes what a word does in terms of grammar, but does not create a new word
What is an inflectional morpheme?
A sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds.
What is assimilation?
Turn taking
What is it called when speakers share turns?
What is a euphemism?
A group of connected words that contain a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
Possibility, likelihood, certainty, obligation
What does a modal verb show?
stress, pitch, intonation
What are some features included in prosodic features?
Referential, phatic, conative, poetic, metalinguistic, emotive
What are Jakobson's functions?
When a words meaning gains more positive connotations over time.
What is elevation?
A sentence structure with no verb
What is a sentence fragment?
A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has.
What is a determiner?
A vowel sound is pronounced [ə] or [ɪ] instead of another full vowel.
What happens in vowel reduction?
gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, stance
What are paralinguistic features?
The conversion of a proper noun into a common noun
What is commonization?
A sentence comprised of at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex/compound sentence?