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A grammatical unit that never occurs by itself, but is always attached to another morpheme. | Bound Morpheme |
The total inventory of morphemes in a given language. | Lexicon |
The smallest unit in the sound system of the language. | Phoneme |
The study of patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation and composition. | Morphology |
To replace a noun or noun phrase with a pronoun. | Pronominalize |
Communication of thought by words; talk; conversation longer than a sentence. | Discourse |
The smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language. | Morpheme |
The stress and intonation patterns of an utterance | Prosody |
The analysis of language in terms of the situational context within which utterances are made, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relation between the speaker and listener. | Pragmatics |
The meaning, or the interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc. | Semantics |