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1. Morphemes are the smallest meaningful units that combine to
form words
2. Affix prefix suffix The smallest part of a word that has a grammatical
function or meaning
3. Free morphemes complete words which cannot be broken down any
further into smaller units
4. Lexical morphemes (free) Lexical morphemes carry the 'content' of the mes-
sages we convey
5. Grammatical morphemes (free) Grammatical morphemes consist of function words
such as con- junctions, prepositions, articles and
pronouns, for example (and, because, a, and, for, of,
I.
6. Phonetics The study of speech sounds.
7. Phonology The study of the sound patterning system
8. Lexis The study of the actual words a writer or speaker
chooses to use.
9. Morphology The study of how words are formed.
10. Syntax The study of how words combine to form sentences
and the rules that govern the formations.
11. Orthography Writing systems
12. Semantics The study of meaning, how meaning is made and
understood
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13. Pragmatics The study of the use of language in communication
- i.e. sentences as used in contexts and situations.
14. Discourse How language is organized beyond the sentence, i.e.
in larger texts
15. homophones two words are homophones if they are pronounced
the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or
both (e.g. bare and bear)
16. homonyms Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or
spelled the same way but have different meanings.
(e.g. bank (embankment) and bank (place where
money is kept)).
17. heteronyms :two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the
same way but differ in pronunciation (e.g. row (a
series of objects arranged in a line), pronounced (r),
and row (a fight), pronounced (rou)).
18. homographs two words are homographs if they are spelled the
same way but differ in meaning (e.g. tear (water from
the eyes) tear (rip -apart)).
19. phoneme When studying the symbols at this level we don't call
them letters or alphabets, but phonemes.
20. B[i]g; br[i]ttle, b[u]sy; br[i]tain Short vowel [I]
21. D[e]sk; fr[ie]nd; w[ea]ther Short vowel [e]
22. C[a]t, l[a]nguage, ex[a]ctly Short vowel [æ]