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GLOSSARY

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No Term Use/Context Meaning Collocations Derivatives/Word family1. phonetics when phonetics is seen

as a distinct area of study

a. Phonetics is the study of human

speech sounds.

b. (used with a sing. verb)the study of the production,perception, transcription,and classification of speechsounds.

Articulatory phonetics

Acoustic phonetics

Phonetic (spelling)

Phonetician

Phonetically (consistent forms)

2.branch Several branches of the

subject have been

recognized.

A limited part of a larger ormore complex unit or systemb. A division of a businessor other organization. d. Linguistics A subdivision ofa family of languages, such asthe Germanic branch of Indo-European.

branch outfrom physics intorelated fieldsa branch ofa railroad

branch lessadj.

branch yadj.

3. synchronic The study of a language at

any given point in time isknown as synchronic or

descriptive linguistics.

1. Synchronous.

2. Of or relating to thestudy of phenomena,such as linguisticfeatures, or of events

a purely synchronic

process;From a purely synchronicpoint of view;synchronic swimmingchampions;

synchron icallyadv.;synchronal;n.pl.synchronicities;synchronism;

syn chronis tic orsyn chronis

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of a particular time,without reference totheir historical context.

World Champion insynchronic 10m diving

tical;synchronize;

syn chroniza tion;

syn chronizern.;

syn chronouslyadv.;

syn chronousnessn.

4. Morpheme The next componet in thehierarchy of language isthe morpheme

a distinctive collocation of phonemes(as the free form pin or the boundform -s

of

pins) having no smallermeaningful parts

morphemic (adjective)morphemically (adverb)

5. Phoneme The smallest vocal sound

that can make a

difference in meaning in

a language is called a

phoneme.

any of the abstract units of thephonetic system of a language thatcorrespond to a set of similar speechsounds (as the velar \k\ ofcoolandthe palatal \k\ ofkeel) which areperceived to be a single distinctivesound in the language

Phonemic (adjective)

6. Syntax Syntax refers the way alaguage permits users to

assemble words to fromphrases and sentences.

A : the way in which linguisticelements (as words) are put togetherto form constituents (as phrases or

clauses)b: the part of grammar dealing withthis

syntactically

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Lexicon of Linguistics, http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/

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