Ao1 key terms Flashcards
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What is a phoneme?
A basic unit of a sound
What is a diphthong?
A vowel sound that is the combination of two separate sounds because the speaker glides from one sound to the other
What is the place of articulation?
The place in the mouth that the consonant is produced
What is the manner of articulation?
The extent that airflow is interrupted by parts of the mouth when producing consonant sounds
What is the IPA?
International phonetic alphabet which is internationally recognised system of phonetic transcription
What is a semantic field?
a group of words shared b a connected meaning
What is a hypernym?
Words whose meanings contain other meanings
What is a hyponym?
Words that can be included in a larger category
What is a morpheme?
The smallest grammatical unit that can be a root or affix
What is a root morpheme?
A morpheme that is able to stand on its own as a word
What is an affix?
A type of morpheme that combines with a root morpheme to create a new word
What is a head word?
The central word in a phrase that gives the phrase it’s name
What is modification?
The adding of words to the head word in a phrase to add more detail - pre modifiying or post modifying
What is the active voice?
A phrase where the doer of the action is the subject
What is the passive voice?
A clause where the patient (the entity affected by an action) is in the subject position and the doer is left out or follows after
What is implicature?
An implied meaning that has to be inferred as a result of a controversial maxim being broken
What is inference?
The understanding of implied meanings
What is irony?
Using language to signal an attitude other than what has been literally expressed
What is deixis?
Words that are context bound meaning that it depends who is using them and where they are being used
What are discourse markers?
Words, phrases or clauses that help to organise what we are going to say (eg. so, okay)
What is anaphoric referencing?
Making a reference back to something previously identified in the text
What is cataphoric referencing?
Making a reference forward to something not yet identified in the text “it was warm”
What is an exophoric reference?
A reference that is made to something outside the text “look at that”
What is turn taking?
The organisation of spoken language, often in adjacency pairs
