Terminology

Question 0

Polysemes

Answer 0

Words that are the same but have different meanings e.g. Foot of a mountain or foot attached to leg

E.g. Feel and feel

Question 1

Superordinate

Answer 1

An umbrella word .e.g fruit.

Question 2

Capitonyms

Answer 2

March and march. Words that have different meanings but written the same except for one word’s being capitalised

Question 3

Free morpheme

Answer 3

The smallest meaningful unit in a language. E.g. Bottle, fish, cat.

Question 4

Bound morpheme

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An individual inid that has meaning but must appear with another word e.g. Dis, un, in etc

Question 5

Delexicalised words

Answer 5

Words without individual meaning - they need another word to be meaningful e.g. Do, get, have

Question 6

Colligation

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Lexical chunks that go with certain grammar. For example, ‘fuck off’ goes with the imperative.

Question 7

Bi-nominals

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Two words that appear in a particular order e.g. Black and white, to and fro.

Question 8

Tri-nominals

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Like bi-nominals, but in 3. E.g. Tall, dark and handsome

Question 9

Hypernym

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Words that can be categorised by a superordinate e.g. Crimson is a hypernym of red.

Question 10

Top down processing

Answer 10

A technique whereby a learner applies their knowledge of the world to a text, which they can use to aid comprehension.

Question 11

Bottom up processing

Answer 11

Where a learner uses their knowledge of how a language works e.g. Grammar, phonology, syntax to decode a text.