Word Bank by nohelia Gonzales

1. Language:

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A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or convetional symbols that can be in various ways following a set or rules, especially to communicate thoughts, feelings or instructions.

2. Literature:

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Is a term used to describe written or spoken material is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works including works of poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction.

3. EFL

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Foreign Language is a language which is not a native language in a country.

4. Linguist

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Is the scientific study of language. Sometimes called the science of language.

5. Grammar:

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The whole system and structure of a language usually taken and consisting on the components of grammar.

System that allows human beings to form and interpret words and sentences of their language.

6. Linguistic Competence.

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The ability to produce and understand an unlimited utterances of a language including novel and unfamiliar words.

7. Phonetics:

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The study of speech sounds is called phonetics, phonetics deals with the production of speech sounds by humans, often without prior knowledge of the language being spoken.

8. Phonology:

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The study of how speech sounds form patterns is phonology. Phonology is about patterns of differents sounds in different languages.

9. Phonemes:

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Any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specific language that distinguish one word from another for example: P, B, D and T in the english words: Pad, Pat, Bad, and bat.

10. Allophones:

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Any of the various phonetic realizations of a phoneme in a langiage, which do not contribute to distinctions of meaning.

11. Morphology:

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Is the study of how words are formed it also studies morphemes.

12. Morpheme:

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Minimal unit of meaning.

A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that contains meaning. "Dog" is an example of a free morpheme. The word "incoming" has three morphemes "-in," "come," and "-ing."

13. Free morpheme

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A morpheme that can stand alone as a word without another morpheme it does not need anything attached.

14. Bound morphemes:

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A morpheme that can not stand alone but which is typically attached to another form.

15. Roots:

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Morphologically complex words consist of a morpheme root and one or more affixes.

16. Content words:

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These denote concepts such as objects, actions, attributes and ideas, content words are sometimes called " Open class words" such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.

17. Function words:

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They hace a grammatical relation but have little or no semantic content. Function words are sometimes called "close words" such as conjuctions, prepositions, pronouns, articles, and determines.

18. Compunding:

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compounding, also called composition, is when two or more words are combined together to form a new word. For example, the word underground is a combination of the words under and ground.

19. Coinage:

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the act of creating a new word or phrase that other people begin to use

“Blog” is a word of recent coinage. [=a word that was recently created]

20. Borrowing:

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In linguistics, borrowing (also known as lexical borrowing) is the process by which a word from one language is adapted for use in another. The word that is borrowed is called a borrowing, a borrowed word, or a loanword.

21. Clipping:

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Clipping is one of the ways new words are created in English. It involves the shortening of a longer word, often reducing it to one syllable. Many examples are very informal or slang. Maths, which is a clipped form of mathematics

22. Blending:

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Blending in English grammar refers to the process of combining the sounds and meanings of two words to create a new one. ...
Examples include 'brunch' (breakfast + lunch), 'smog' (smoke + fog), and 'motel' (motor + hotel).

23. Acronyms:

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An acronym is a word created by combining the first letter or syllable of each word in a phrase to create a new, single word. Here are a few examples of popular acronyms: FOMO: fear of missing out.

24. Syntax:

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Is the study of the system of rules and categories that underlines sentence formation in human language.

25. Lexical categories:

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A lexical category is a class of lexical items. – Lexical items are items in the lexicon of a language (= the language's vocabulary). eat, pinch, elephant, cookie, pretty, … – Common lexical categories: noun, verb, adjective preposition and adverbs.

26. Non lexical categories:

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Non-lexical categories, also known as functional categories, refer to elements in language that contribute to the structure and organization of sentences but do not carry lexical meaning or content. Determiner, pronouns, qualifier, auxiliary, conjuctions.

27. Phrase:

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In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words that function together as a unit within a sentence. Phrases can consist of a single word or multiple words and are characterized by their syntactic structure and their role in conveying meaning within a sentence.

28. Semantics:

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The study of the linguistic meaning of morphemes words, phrases and sentences is called semantics.

29. Meaning:

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"Meaning" refers to the significance, interpretation, or sense conveyed by words, phrases, sentences, or other linguistic elements. It encompasses both denotative (literal) and connotative (implied or associative) aspects of language.

30. Pragmatics:

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The study of how context affects meaning for example, how the sentence its cold in here comes to interpreted as "close the windows" in certain situations it is called pragmatics.

31. Ambiguity:

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Ambiguity refers to a situation where a word, phrase, sentence, or other linguistic construct has multiple possible meanings or interpretations.

32. Metaphors:

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Is a figure speech that makes a non-literal comparison between two unlike things.

33. Idioms:

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A group words established by usage as having a meaning not deductible from those of the individual words.

34. Sense:

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This is also suggested by the fact that speakers know the meaning of many words that have no real- world referents. These additional elements of meaning are often termed Sense.

35. Synonym:

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Are words or expressions that have the same meaning in some or all contexts.

36. Antonyms:

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Are words or phrases that are opposites with respect to some component of their meaning. Examples: Dark-light, boy-girl.

37: Polysemy:

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Occurs when a word has two or more related meanings.

38. Homophony:

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Homophony refers to a linguistic phenomenon where two or more words have the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spellings.Exists when a single form has two or more entirely distinct meanings

39. Paraphrase:

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Paraphrase is the act of expressing the meaning of something, such as a passage, statement, or text, using different words or phrasing while retaining the original idea or message.

40. Lexical morphemes:

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They carry content of a messages we convey. They are generally nouns, adjetives and adverbs.

41. Functional Morphemes:

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They consist of functional words in the language such as conjuctions, prepositions and pronouns.

42. Derivational morpheme:

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They are combined with a root word or main word also known as "sterm". They change either semantic meaning of a word or part speech.

43. Inflectional Morphemes:

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They are used to show of a word is plural or singular, if it is past tense- present etc.

44. First Language: L1

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Is the language which a child acquires first when the child learns to communicate with the people around.

45. Second language. L2

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Can refer to any language that is learnt subsequent to the mother tongue.

46. Descriptive grammar:

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Attempts to codify the use and contributions of a language, as it os written and spoken by native speakers.It specially explores and understand language.

47. Prescriptive grammar:

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Approach to grammar proposes the "correct" way to use a language both spoken and written. It creates a universal version of a language, which makes it more easily accesible across cultural boundaries.

48. vocal tract:

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The production of any sound involves the movement of air most speech sounds are produced by pushing lung air through the vocal cords.

49. Affixes:

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Affixes are linguistic elements that are attached to a root word to modify its meaning or create a new word. Affixes can be prefixes, suffixes, infixes, or circumfixes, depending on where they are attached to the root word within a language.

50. Lexical semantics:

noheliagonzales2000 — 2024-04-21 06:14:49 UTC

Lexical semantics, as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of the meanings of words. It includes the study of how words structure their meaning, how they act in grammar and composition, and the relationships between the different senses and uses of a word.

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