module1 phonemes#smallest unit of sound that contrasts meaning aspirated#sound followed by a small puff of air unaspirated#sound articulated with no airflow morphemes#smallest units of language that actually carry meaning affix#bound morpheme, only occurs when attached to another morpheme prefix#affix that comes before the root suffix#affix that comes after the root derivational morpheme#morpheme used to expand and build new words out of old ones inflectional morpheme#morpheme that marks grammatical categories (plurality, tense, adverb, comparitives, superlative) syntax#level of word order, grammar synonym#words with same meaning antonym#words with opposite meaning homonym#words that sound alike but have different meaning, arbitrariness of the linguistic sign ambiguity#accidents of meaning in language disambiguation#process of discarding inappropriate meanings frame or script#encyclopedic knowledge and knowledge about the word stored in the brain structural ambiguity#ambiguity of the grammatical structure of the sentence intonation#rise and fall in pitch of the voice in speech prosody#the metrical, or rhythmic structure of language pragmatics#the attitudes and beliefs of the speakers and listeners, the context in which a statment is made, or some knowledge of how language is used to communicate phonology#The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. phoenics#The branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. distinctive difference#differientiating between sounds lexicon#The morphemes of a language considered as a group. morphology#The study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds. semantics#The study of relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent. pragmatics#The study of language as it is used in a social context, including its effect on the interlocutors. interlocutor#Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially. discourse analysis sociolinguistics#The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors. module2 from list: acronym affricate alphabetism argot articulation artificial language bilabial bound form Broca's area clipping cognate coinage continuant critical period deep structure dialect diphthong discourse analysis dysgraphia dyslexia euphemism fricative generative grammar glide grammatical homograph homophone honorific hypercreolization idiom infix interdental labio-dental language-acquisition device (LAD) lexeme metalanguage morpheme morphology#level of words and word parts motherese palatal phonetics phonology/phonemics#the level of sound pragmatics#level of language in use root semantics#level of word meaning semi-vowel sibilant sociolinguistics speech community speech event spoonerism stem stop trade language transcription velar Wernicke's area word idiolect orthography decreolization circumlocution