morphology

Question 1

root morpheme

Answer 1

primary base of a word eg apple

Question 2

stem morpheme

Answer 2

occur when other morphemes are attaches to a word eg apples

Question 3

free morpheme

Answer 3

cannot be broken down further eg banana

Question 4

bound morpheme

Answer 4

cannot stand independently

Question 5

inflectional bound morpheme

Answer 5

doesnt change meaning of word eg play-ed

Question 6

derivational bound morpheme

Answer 6

change of meaning, creating new word or change word class eg swim-mer

Question 7

acronym

Answer 7

made from 1st letter of word to make up name of something eg nasa

Question 8

initialism

Answer 8

pronounced as a sequence of letters eg dna

Question 9

abbreviation

Answer 9

pronouncing shorter form of word eg st = street

Question 10

shortening

Answer 10

creating new words by shortening parts of longer words eg caps meaning capital letters

Question 11

contractions

Answer 11

word or phrase shortened by dropping one or more letters eg she’s = she is

Question 12

compounding

Answer 12

a way of forming new words by combining free morphemes eg girl + friend = girlfriend

Question 13

blending

Answer 13

creating a new word by combing 2 different words eg motor + hotel = motel

Question 14

archaism

Answer 14

not fully lost, used in some contexts eg thou

Question 15

obsolescence

Answer 15

when meaning of words cease to exist eg brigandine being a type of armour

Question 16

brevity

Answer 16

words become too short or only used as a bound morpheme

Question 17

taboo

Answer 17

things avoided or banned in society eg slurs