type - ANSWERSonly count the word in use once
tokens - ANSWERScount every instance that a word occurs
phonological - ANSWERSeach phoneme is considered as consisting of a group of these features and differing in at least one feature from the other phonemes
/i:/ +high, -low, -back, -round
/u:...
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type - ANSWERSonly count the word in use once
tokens - ANSWERScount every instance that a word occurs
phonological - ANSWERSeach phoneme is considered as consisting of a group of
these features and differing in at least one feature from the other phonemes
/i:/ +high, -low, -back, -round
/u:/ ++high, -low, +back, +round
where the features + or - hihg, = or _ low, + or - back refer to the postition of the tongue
in the mouth and + or - round to whether the lips are rounded or not
also concerned with:
a) the study of word-to-word relations in sentences, i.e. how sound patterns are affected
by the combination of words
b) the investigation of intonation patterns
orthographic - ANSWERS(1) The practice or study of correct spelling according to
established usage.
(2) The study of letters and how they are used to express sounds and form words.
Adjective: orthographic or orthographical.
'The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.' -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's
Dictionary (1911)
lexical unit - ANSWERSform that points to or refers to
something in the outside world
two categories of words - ANSWERScontent and function
see typologies in Granger for further reading
homonymy - ANSWERSrelation between words whose forms are the same (sound or
spelling) but whose meanings are different and cannot be connected
*distinguished from polysemy in that meanings cannot be connected
tail and tale
bow your head and tie a bow
lie down and don't lie
polysemy - ANSWERSone word having two or more closely related meanings
foot of the bed, hurt his foot (both mean lower part)
morphology - ANSWERSthe study of how the forms of words change
, morpheme - ANSWERSthe smallest meaningful unit in a language or the smallest bit of
a word with independent meaning
cannot be divided without altering or destroying its meaning
ex: kind
free morpheme - ANSWERScan stand alone, cannot be divided into smaller units
bound morpheme - ANSWERScannot stand alone as a word
-s
-ous
im-
re-
allomorph - ANSWERS[W]hen we find a group of different morphs, all versions of one
morpheme, we can use the prefix allo- ( = one of a closely related set) and describe
them as allomorphs of that morpheme.
derivational affix - ANSWERSDerivational morphemes are used to change the
grammatical categories of words. For example, the derivational morpheme -er is used to
transform the verbbake into the noun baker. The morpheme -ly changes the adjective
quick into the adverb quickly. We can change adjectives such as happy into nouns such
ashappiness by using the derivational morpheme -ness. Other common suffixes include
-ism, -tion, -able, -ment and -al. Derivational morphemes can also be prefixes, such as
un-, in-, pre- and a-.
-adds meaning in the stem changes word for example, a noun to an adjective, etc.
inflectional affix - ANSWERSinflectional morphemes serve as grammatical markers that
indicate tense, number,possession, or comparison. Inflectional morphemes in English
include the suffixes -s(or -es); 's (or s'); -ed; -en; -er; -est; and -ing. n inflectional
morpheme does not have the capacity to change the meaning or the syntactic class of
the words it is bound to and will have a predictable meaning for all such words.
affix - ANSWERSa letter or sound, or group of letters or sounds added to a word, which
changes the meaning or function of a word.
prefix- beginning of a word
suffix- end of a word (root)
infix- within a word
phraseology - ANSWERSthe study of structure, meaning, and use of word combinations
-Cowie 1994
made up of at least two words
non-compositional - ANSWERSa lexical item is said to be non-compositional if its global
meaning is different from the sum of its individual parts- Svensson
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