Metalanguage Flashcards
What are the content words?
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Verbs (lexical)
- Adverbs
- Interjections
What are the function words?
- Pronouns
- Determiners
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Verbs (Auxiliary)
- Verbs (Modal)
What is colloquialism?
Widely understood informal language
What is Jargon?
More formal language specific to a profession or semantic not understood by outside groups
What are the 3 Golden rules?
1 - Always look at the word in its context
2 - There are no “100%” rules
3 - When in doubt, apply multiple tests
What are the 4 aspects? (And their aux. verbs- all have lex.)
- Simple (none)
- Progressive (‘to be’)
- Present (‘to have’)
- Perfect progressive (‘to have’ + ‘to be’)
What are the 3 transitivity? (And objects)
- Transitive = takes a direct object
- Ditransitive = can take both direct and indirect
- Intransitive = doesn’t take a direct object
What is a copular verb?
When the subject and object refer to the same entity, the verb is copular.
What are the 5 sounds in connected speech?
- Assimilation
- Elision
- Vowel reduction
- Insertion
- Substitution
What is assimilation?
When sound changes become more like neighbouring sound
eg. handbag -> hambag
What is elision?
Deleting or removing a sound in connected speech
eg. don’t know -> dunno
What is Vowel reduction?
An unstressed vowel is reduced to a schwa
eg. you -> ya
What is insertion?
The adding of a sound
eg. drink bottle -> drink-a-bottle
What is substitution?
The swapping of a sound for a different one
eg. swimming -> swimmin.
What are some phonological patternings?
- Patterning (repetition,creating links,known meaning)
- Alliteration
- Assonance (repetition of vowel sound)
- Consonance (repetition of a constant sound)
- Onomatopoeia (word imitate sound)
- Reduplication (repeat all or part of a word)
