slang. informal verbal communication that is generally unacceptable for formal writing
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PolysemousTRANSCRIPT
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Slang
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Informal verbal communication that is generally unacceptable for formal writing.
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Polysemous
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• Words that have multiple meanings
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Root
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• The form of a word after all affixes are removed
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Bound Morphome
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• A morpheme which never occurs alone but is attached to other morphemes
Ex: Kindness, unlikely
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Homographs
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Words that are spelled identically and possibly pronounced the same
Ex: Bear (animal)Bear (tolerate)
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Homonyms
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Words that are pronounced and possibly spelled the same, but with a different meaning
Ex: Bat (animal)Bat (stick)Bat (flutter)
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Homophones
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Words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings
Ex: therethey’retheir
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Lexicon
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A speaker’s mental dictionary
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Morpheme
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The smallest unit of linguistic meaning or function
Ex: sheep dog s 1 2 3(3 morphemes)
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Morphology
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The sub-field of linguistics that studies internal structure of words and relationships among words
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Ebonics
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An alternative term used in 1997 for various dialects of the African-American English
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Etymology
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The history of words; the study of the history of words
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Phonology
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The sub-field of linguistics that studies structure and systematic patterning of sounds in human language
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Phonetics
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*The system of speech sounds of a language or group of languages*The study and systematic classification of the sounds made in spoken utterance
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Pragmatics
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A technical term meaning, roughly, what the person speaking or writing actually meant, rather than what the words themselves mean.
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Semantics
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The study of meaning, reference, truth, and related notions
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Syntax
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The rules of sentence formation; the component of mental grammar and structure of phrases and sentences
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Antonym
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A word of opposite meaning
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Acronym
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A word formed by combining the initial letters of a series or related words
Ex: NATO, ESL, MIA
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Clause
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A group of words containing a subject and predicate (Found in a complex or compound sentence)
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Creole
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Pidgin language that has become established as the native language of a speech community
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Connotation
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An additional, suggested meaning as opposed to a literal, direct meaning
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Cognate
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Words that have the same linguistic root or origin
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Denotation
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The literal direct meaning of a word
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of anotherEx: The White House government
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Orthography
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*The art of writing words with proper letters according to standard usage*the representation of sounds of a language by written or printed symbols*language and spelling*usually arises as methods of communication b/w groups that have no language in common
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Synonym
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One of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have similar meanings
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Dialect
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A variety of a language whose grammar differs in systematic ways from other varieties
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Prefix
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Affix has to be added to the beginning of a wordEx: mislead
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Suffix
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Affix has to be added at the end of the wordEx: foolish
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Illocutionary Force
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The basic purpose of a speaker in making an utterance and attitudes that accompany it
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Proto-language
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A recorded or reconstructed language that is the ancestor of another language
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Inflectional Morphemes
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Indicates number, person, case, and tense; the part of grammar that deals with inflections of words
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Derivational Morphemes
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The part of grammar that deals with the derivations of words
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Deep Structure
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The abstract level of language; conceived as containing all info needed to make any sentence
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Surface Structure
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Grammatical structure that actually occurs; in some types of grammar, a representation of the sequence of syntactic elements that constitute one sentence