metalanguage Flashcards
(89 cards)
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phonics
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word sounds
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phonology
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word/letter pronounciation
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morphology
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words are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language
It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
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semantics
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meanings of words
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lexicology
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base/ single word and its forms
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noun
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person place thing or idea
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verb
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a doing word
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adjective
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word that describes a noun
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adverb
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word that describes a verb
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prepositions
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a word showing where or when something is in relation to something else
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conjunction
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word ues to join 2 words or agroup of words
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determiner
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word that nmdifys a noun
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pronoun
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syntax
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exclemation
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subject
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object
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discourse
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language subsystems
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metalanguage
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phatic
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Principle of appropriateness
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duality of pattening
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displacment
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SPITV
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morpheme
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inflectional morpheme
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derivational morpheme
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phrases
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clauses
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complement
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adverbials
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syntax trees
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fragment
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simple scentence
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compound scentence
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complex scentence
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complex-compound scentence
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declarative
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impretive
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intragatives
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exclamatives
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ellipses
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lexical verb
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auxillary verb
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modal verb
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coordenating conjunctions
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affix
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infix
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prefix
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suffix
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bound morphemes
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free morphemes
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consontal
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Prosodic features
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Intonation
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voicing
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register
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Inference
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metaphore
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figurative language
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simile
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ironey
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idiom
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oxymoron
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hyponymy
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hypernym
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hyponym
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euphanisim
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dysphemism
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pun
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shortening
shortened form of existing word
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compounding
combonation of 2 or more free morphemes
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affix
combo of bound morphemes or one free and one bound morpheme
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blend
blending of 2 orignal words
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acronym
words made up from there initials
yolo - whole word pronounced
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initualisism
letter taken from beguingin of geach word - - pronouned as letters
ASAP - individual letters pronounced
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backformation
new words created from removal of affix
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conversions
word changes from one word class to another
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commonisation
brand nmaes, places and personal names enter lanuge as words e.g hoover
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borrowings
words taken from another language to be used in another
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broardening
word can be used in more context
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narrowing
word is now used in more spacific contexts
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shift
word gets a new different meaning
85
eleviation
words connataions change
g-b
n-b
g-n
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deterioration
word develops negative connatations after having good or nutral ones before
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phoneme
smallest unit of a sound
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inflection
change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender.
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