Phonetics and phonology
Concerns the speed at which we speak and can serve a variety of functions.
What is tempo?
Words that stand on their own.
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?
The omission (deletion) of a sound in connected speech.
What is elision?
Additions to bound morphemes that do not change meaning or word class.
What are inflectional morphemes?
A word that usually modifies an adjective or verb and expresses elements of time, place and manner, cause and effect, degree, and frequency.
What is an adverb?
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?
A chart that represents every sound in every language.
What is the IPA?
A word formed from the first letters of a series of words and is pronounced as each letter individually.
What is initialism?
Words (or phrases) that express a sudden or strong emotion or feeling.
What are interjections?
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?
Sounds that aren't words but still convey meaning (laughter, coughs, whispering etc).
What are vocal effects?
The semantic base or centre of a word.
What is a root word (or, root morpheme)?
What is a commonisation?
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?
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?
Morphemes that change the meaning of words, create new words and can sometimes change the word class.
What are derivational morphemes?
Verbs that modify and change some aspect of a main verb.
What are auxiliary verbs?
Single words, phrases or clauses that provide extra information about an element, typically in relation to time, place or manner.
What are adverbials?
When people (often children) make inferences that extend the meaning of a word beyond its accepted use.
What is semantic over-generalisation?