ESL Praxis: Terms Relating to Words
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redeemedcurly on June 9, 2012
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These are terms related to words and letters
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 syntax | rules of sentence formation |
| morpheme | the smallest unit of linguistic meaning or function. Ex.: (sheepdogs= sheep+dog+s= 3) |
| morphology | the study of the structure of words including rules for grammatic word formation. |
| bound morpheme | a morpheme that must be attached to other morphemes. Ex.: -ly; -ed; pre-; affixes, prefixes; suffixes; infixes; suffixes; and some roots such as "cran" in cranberry. |
| free morpheme | a single morpheme that constitutes a word. Ex. boy, gentle |
| derviational morpheme | a morpheme added to a stem to form a new stem or word. Ex. -er makes painter. |
| allomorph | all the ways of saying a morpheme. |
| inflectional morpheme | a bound grammatical morpheme affixed to a word according to the rules of syntax |
| grammatical morpheme | a function WORD or bound morpheme required my syntactic rules |
| phonology | the sound system of a language; includes the inventory of sound and rules for their combination and pronunciation |
| digraph | two letters used to represent a single sound. Ex.: "gh" = /f/ in enough; th; wh; ch; sh |
| lexicon | a speaker's knowledge about morphemes and words- one's mental dictionary |
| function word | a word that does not have clear lexical meaning but has a grammatical function (conjunctions, prepositions, articles, auxilaries- closed class) |
| open class | class of lexical content words; a catergory of words that commonly add new words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,- constitute the major part of the vocabulary) |
| minimal pair | two forms with distinct meanings that differ by only one segment found in the same position in each form. Ex.: pet and bet |
| modal | a word used as an auxilary verb. Ex.: can, could, will, would, must. |
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