Meaning: a consonant sound that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative

Part of speech: noun

Example: The 'ch' in 'church' is an affricate.

Category: Linguistics › Phonetics

Synonyms: consonant

Meaning: The loss of one or more sounds at the end of a word.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Apocope can change the meaning of a word.

Category: Linguistics

Meaning: A consonant sound that is produced with a relatively open vocal tract.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The sound /r/ is an example of an approximant.

Category: Linguistics › Phonetics

Synonyms: semi-vowel

Meaning: A non-standard dialect of a language.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The basilect of the region is quite different from the standard language.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: dialect

Meaning: Relating to sounds made with both lips, such as 'p' and 'b'.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: The sounds 'p' and 'b' are bilabial.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: lip sounds

Meaning: A theory in linguistics regarding the relationship between pronouns and the nouns they refer to.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Binding theory helps explain how we understand sentences.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: linguistic theory

Meaning: A variety of English spoken by some Black communities.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Black English has its own unique grammatical structures.

Category: Linguistics

Meaning: A word or phrase that refers to something mentioned later in the text.

Part of speech: noun

Example: In the sentence, 'This is what I mean,' 'this' is a cataphor.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: anaphor

Meaning: The use of a cataphor in a sentence.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Cataphora can create suspense in writing.

Category: Linguistics

Meaning: A word or phrase that indicates the category of a noun.

Part of speech: noun

Example: In some languages, classifiers are used to specify types of objects.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: categorizer

Meaning: A form of a word used to create compound words.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The combining form 'bio-' means life, as in 'biology'.

Category: Linguistics › Morphology

Synonyms:

• morpheme
• prefix

Meaning: A word that introduces a complement clause.

Part of speech: noun

Example: In English, 'that' is a common complementizer.

Synonyms:

• connector
• linker

Meaning: A method of analyzing the components of a word or phrase.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Componential analysis helps in understanding word meanings.

Synonyms:

• analysis
• breakdown

Meaning: The study of using computer algorithms to process and analyze human language.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Computational linguistics combines linguistics and computer science.

Synonyms:

• language processing
• natural language processing

Meaning: Relating to a statement that describes a state of affairs.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: A constative utterance conveys information about the world.

Category: Linguistics

Meaning: A word that carries meaning, such as a noun, verb, or adjective.

Part of speech: noun

Example: In the sentence, 'The cat sleeps,' 'cat' is a content word.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: meaningful word

Antonyms: function word

Meaning: The circumstances or setting surrounding an event or situation.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Understanding the context is essential for interpreting the text.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• background
• framework

Antonyms:

• isolation
• separation

Meaning: Relating to the context of something.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: The contextual analysis helped clarify the meaning.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• situational
• environmental

Antonyms:

• abstract
• isolated

Meaning: To place something in its context.

Part of speech: verb

Example: It's important to contextualize historical events.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• situate
• place

Antonyms:

• isolate
• detach

Meaning: A speech sound that is produced without a complete closure of the vocal tract.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The sound 's' is a continuant in English.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: continuant sound

Antonyms: stop consonant

Meaning: Relating to words that require contextual information.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: Deictic expressions like 'here' and 'there' depend on context.

Category: Linguistics › Semantics

Synonyms: contextual

Meaning: Words or phrases that require contextual information to convey meaning.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Deixis is important in understanding spoken language.

Category: Linguistics › Semantics

Synonyms: contextual reference

Meaning: A situation where two languages or dialects are used in different social contexts.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Diglossia can be seen in many bilingual communities.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• bilingualism
• language variation

Meaning: A pair of letters representing a single sound.

Part of speech: noun

Example: In English, 'ch' is a digraph.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• letter pair
• grapheme

Meaning: Describing a verb that takes two objects.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: In the sentence 'She gave him a book,' 'gave' is a ditransitive verb.

Category: Linguistics

Meaning: A word that is pronounced with the preceding word and cannot stand alone.

Part of speech: noun

Example: In English, 'll' in 'he'll' is an enclitic.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: clitic

Meaning: Relating to a language used within a specific group.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: Endoglossic languages are often used in cultural contexts.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• in-group language
• community language

Meaning: The change in form of a word to express different grammatical features.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Flection is important in understanding verb conjugations.

Category: Linguistics › Grammar

Meaning: A morpheme that can stand alone as a word.

Part of speech: noun

Example: In the word 'cats', 'cat' is a free morpheme.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: independent morpheme

Meaning: Describing an action that occurs repeatedly.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: The frequentative form of the verb indicates repeated action.

Category: Linguistics

Meaning: A consonant sound produced by forcing air through a narrow channel.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The 'f' in 'fish' is a fricative sound.

Category: Linguistics › Phonetics

Meaning: a word that has little lexical meaning but serves a grammatical purpose

Part of speech: noun

Example: Words like 'and' and 'but' are function words.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• grammatical word
• structural word

Meaning: the study of how language is used in context

Part of speech: noun

Example: Functional grammar focuses on meaning in communication.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• pragmatics
• contextual grammar

Meaning: Relating to the words or vocabulary of a language.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: The lexical choices in her writing were impressive.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: vocabulary-related

Meaning: The art or practice of compiling dictionaries.

Part of speech: noun

Example: She studied lexicography in university.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: dictionary-making

Meaning: The vocabulary of a language or a specific field.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The lexicon of medicine includes many technical terms.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• vocabulary
• word list

Meaning: The total stock of words in a language.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The lexis of English is vast and varied.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: vocabulary

Meaning: A newly coined word or expression.

Part of speech: noun

Example: The internet has led to many neologisms in the English language.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms: new word

Meaning: A word that imitates a sound.

Part of speech: noun

Example: Words like 'buzz' and 'sizzle' are examples of onomatopoeia.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• sound word
• echoic word

Meaning: Relating to onomatopoeia; imitative of a sound.

Part of speech: adjective

Example: The word 'bang' is onomatopoeic.

Category: Linguistics

Synonyms:

• sound-imitating
• echoic