Linguistics
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Some Important Definition in Linguistcs
Important definition in Linguistics
16-Pidgin:-It is a contract language, a mixture of elements from different natural languages.
17-Creole:-It is a mixed natural language composed of elements of different languages in areas of intensive contact.
18-Phonetics:-It is the scientific study of the production , transmission and reception of speech sounds.
19-Acoustic Phonetics:-It is the study of the physical properties of speech sounds such as frequency and amplitude in their transmission.
20-Auditory Phonetics:-It is the study of hearing and the perception of speech sounds.It studies different auditory impressions of quality ,pitch and loudness of sounds.
21-Articulatory Phonetics:-It recognizes that speech is produced by some kind of sound making apparatus inside of human body and that specific some sounds may be related to specific movement of the apparatus.
22-Vowel:-A word which is uttered without a blockage of air is called vowel.
23-Consonant:-A word that cannot be spoken with out a blockage of air is called consonant
24-Stress:-It is the degree of force with which a syllable or a word is uttered.It is crucial in English pronunciation.It can be called grammatical device in spoken English.
25-Intonation:-It is the tune,the melody and the music of speech.It shows the speakers mental attitude.
26-Phonology:-It is organization of sound into patterns.It is the study of vocal sounds and the sound changes,phonemes and their variations in particular language.
27-Phoneme:-It is the minimal bundle of relevant sound features.
28-Allophone:-It is a speech sound which is one of a number of variants of a phoneme.Such a variant can be either in complementary variation or in free variation.
29-Morphology:-It is the science and study of the smallest grammatical units of language and of their formation into words including infection-derivation and composition.
30-Syntax:-It is the grammar of sentences and morphology is the grammar of words.
31-Morpheme:-Minimal units of grammatical structure such as the four components of "un-faith-ful-ness" are called morphemes.
32-Lexical Morphemes:-These are nouns,verbs,adjectives and adverbs.
33-Compounds:-A compounds is lexical unit in which two or more lexical morphemes are juxtaposed eg. air craft, text book etc.
34-Sentence:-A sentence is a word or set of words followed by a phrase and revealing on intelligible purpose.
35-Grammatical-Morphemes:-These are the elements like prepositions,tenses, genders,conjunctions and so on.
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