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YR 12 ENG LANG > METALANGUAGE > Flashcards

METALANGUAGE Flashcards

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Phonetics and phonology

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Sounds

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Morphology and lexicology

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Words

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Syntax

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Sentences

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Semantics

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Meaning

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Discourse

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Whole text

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5 Speech processes

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  • Elision
  • Reduction
  • Insertion/ Epenthesis
  • Flapping
  • assimilation
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Elision

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omission or loss of sound
because –> ‘cause
about –> ‘bout

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Epinthesis/ Omission

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adding sounds
athlete –> ath-e-lete
umbrella –> um-ber-ella

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Reduction

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ya-> unstresses vowel phoneme /u/ reduced to a schwa /a

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Flapping

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footy –> foody

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Assimilation

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sound changes or merge ro sound like nearby sounds
handbag –> hambag
going to –> gonna

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Alliteration

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Phonological paterning
Sequence of words that use the same constant sound in the beginning
eg. deliberate and deadly

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13
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Nouns

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Name of person place or thing

Common : General things you can see and touch

Proper: begin with a capital letter

Abstract: cannot see or touch

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verbs

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doing being or having word

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infinitives

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to ___(verb)___

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auxiliary verbs

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to have – has/ have/ had
to be- am/is/are/ was/ were
to do- did

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modal verbs

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may/ must/ might
can/ could
shall/ should
will/ would

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Adverbs

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often end in -ly
yes
time : now/ soon/ often/ never
place : here/ somewhere/ outside

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interjection

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words that have emotional meaning
eg. wow/ yuck/ oi

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‘i’

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1st person subject singular PN

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‘you’

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2nd person subject PN

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‘we’

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1st person subject plural PN

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Determiners

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come before nouns

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coordinating conjunctions

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For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So

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subordinating conjunctions

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after/ although/ as
however/ therefore/
while

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Inflectional morphemes

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Indicate tense/ number/ relationships

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Derivational morphemes

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Indicate word class and meaning

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Diminutives

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indicate a friendly, laid back attitude to something or someone.
end in ie/y/o

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5 Word Formation processes

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  • initialisms eg. OMG
  • Acronyms eg. YOLO
  • Compounding eg. holiday
  • Affixation eg. iPad
  • Blends eg. brunch
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4 Sentence structures

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  1. simple
  2. compound
  3. complex
  4. compound- complex
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Simple sentences

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1 verb phrase

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Compound sentences

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2+ verb phrases + coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS) / semi colon joining ALL clauses

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Complex sentences

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2+ verb phrases

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Compound - complex sentence

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3+ verb phrases + SOME clauses joined with coordinating conjunction/ semi colons

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4 Sentence Types

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Declarative
Imperative
Exclamative
Interrogative

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Passive voice

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verb phrase: to be
by…

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Syntatic patterning

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Paralelism
Antithesis
Listing

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Antithesis

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mirrored structures with contrasting words/ideas
eg. give me liberty, give me death

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Nominilstaion

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verb–> noun
eg. suggests –> suggestion

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information flow

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Front focus
End focus
Clefting

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It Cleft

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dummy subject ( it ) + verb + relative pronoun + clause

eg. it was alice who kicked the winning goal

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what cleft

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what + SNcl + verb + Noun phrase

eg. what i really want are answers

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features of spoken discourse

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Interogative tags
Discourse particles
Opening/closings
Overlapping speech
Non fluency features
Adjacency pairs

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Non-fluency features

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pauses
filled pauses/voiced hesitations
false starts
repetition
repairs

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strategies in spoken discourse

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Topic management
Turn taking
Floor
Minimal responses/backchaneling

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examples of turn-taking

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rising and falling intonation
vocatives
interogative tags
discourse markers + particles

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minimal responses/ backchanneling

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eg. mm/ yep/ oh

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semantic patterning

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figurative language

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denotations

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literal meaning

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connotations

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suggestions that come to mind when the word is used

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Anaphoric reference

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PN is used to refer to the previous NP

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