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allomorph
One of the variant forms assumed by a single morpheme in different circumstances, such as each of the forms of the negating prefix in- in the words indirect, irreducible, improbable, and ignoble. ...
articulation
1. In oral communication, control of the voice so as to produce clear and distinct sounds in speech.2. (semiotics) Structural levels within semiotic codes—which are divisible into those with single ...
bound form
A morpheme that cannot occur on its own as a word, such as the prefix un- or the suffix -tion in English. Also called a bound morpheme. Compare free morpheme.
inflection
1. The modulation of vocal intonation or pitch.2. A change in the form of a word to indicate a grammatical function: e.g. adding the letter ‘s’ to make a simple plural in English.3. Often used in ...
kinemorph
The smallest unit of kinesic behaviour having a distinctive function. Compare morpheme. [A blend of kine(sic) and morph(eme)]
lexeme
A word, in the sense of a dictionary entry. Distinct string of letters may be forms of the same lexeme (‘fills’, ‘filled’, ‘filling’); conversely, identical strings of letters (bank, the institution, ...
logograph
A representation of a complete morpheme, word, or phrase in a single character or symbol, as in the writing systems of China and Japan or internationally recognized symbols such as % for per cent, ÷ ...
mean length of utterance
The mean or average number of morphemes or words in a sample of speech, often used as a crude index of the level of linguistic development of a child. MLU abbrev.
morphology
1. (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words: see also morpheme; compare syntax.2. More generally, the study of the forms of things, as in Propp's Morphology of the Folktale (1928): ...
phoneme
(linguistics) The smallest sound unit in a language. Meaningless in themselves, phonemes are the building-blocks of language. Changing one for another changes the meaning of a word, as with /p/ and ...
phrase-structure grammar
A form of generative grammar that describes the relations between words and morphemes of a sentence, but does not analyse syntactic relations in greater depth.
pseudomorpheme
A portion of a word that resembles a morpheme but is not, in fact, one. For example, in the word history, the portion his is a pseudomorpheme, appearing to some people to be a morpheme and ...
sentence
Most generally, the unit of communication: the smallest entity whose production constitutes a message, such as an assertion, a command, or a question. Given such factors as variations of phonetics or ...
syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. Recorded from the late 16th century, the word comes via French or late Latin from Greek suntaxis, from sun- ...
Word-and-Paradigm Model
The phrase “word and paradigm” refers to a model of morphology that was usual in the Western tradition until the development of morphemics in the mid-20th century. Since 1960 it ...
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