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phonics

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word sounds

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phonology

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word/letter pronounciation

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morphology

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words are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language

It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

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semantics

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meanings of words

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lexicology

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base/ single word and its forms

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noun

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person place thing or idea

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verb

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a doing word

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adjective

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word that describes a noun

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adverb

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word that describes a verb

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prepositions

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a word showing where or when something is in relation to something else

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conjunction

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word ues to join 2 words or agroup of words

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determiner

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word that nmdifys a noun

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pronoun

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syntax

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exclemation

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subject

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object

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discourse

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language subsystems

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metalanguage

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phatic

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Principle of appropriateness

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duality of pattening

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displacment

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SPITV

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morpheme

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inflectional morpheme

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derivational morpheme

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phrases

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clauses

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complement

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adverbials

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syntax trees

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fragment

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simple scentence

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compound scentence

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complex scentence

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complex-compound scentence

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declarative

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impretive

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intragatives

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exclamatives

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ellipses

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lexical verb

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auxillary verb

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modal verb

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coordenating conjunctions

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affix

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infix

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prefix

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suffix

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bound morphemes

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free morphemes

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consontal

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Prosodic features

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Intonation

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voicing

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register

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Inference

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metaphore

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figurative language

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simile

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ironey

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idiom

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oxymoron

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hyponymy

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hypernym

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hyponym

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euphanisim

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dysphemism

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pun

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shortening

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shortened form of existing word

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compounding

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combonation of 2 or more free morphemes

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affix

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combo of bound morphemes or one free and one bound morpheme

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blend

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blending of 2 orignal words

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acronym

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words made up from there initials
yolo - whole word pronounced

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initualisism

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letter taken from beguingin of geach word - - pronouned as letters
ASAP - individual letters pronounced

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backformation

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new words created from removal of affix

79
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conversions

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word changes from one word class to another

80
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commonisation

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brand nmaes, places and personal names enter lanuge as words e.g hoover

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borrowings

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words taken from another language to be used in another

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broardening

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word can be used in more context

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narrowing

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word is now used in more spacific contexts

84
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shift

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word gets a new different meaning

85
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eleviation

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words connataions change
g-b
n-b
g-n

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deterioration

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word develops negative connatations after having good or nutral ones before

87
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phoneme

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smallest unit of a sound

88
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inflection

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change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender.

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