Pamela disciplinary terms (applied linguistics)

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  1. speech
    something spoken
    He jumps between the caricature speech patterns he uses while playing Cantor, and his normal voice.
    can be an adjective or a noun; in the example here, used as an adjective. very long /i:/ vowel.
  2. spoken
    uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination
    Earlier devices offered limited benefit because many recipients could not understand spoken words without visual hints like lip reading.
    used in combination with "language" or "English" a lot
  3. syllable
    a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
    Even the timing between syllables can be crucial to a phrase’s meaning. Salon (May 25, 2013)
    Every syllable has to have at least one vowel sound.
  4. interpreting
    an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious
    Interpreting Bernanke's words and recent signs about the economy have roiled markets since then.
  5. morphological
    relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language
    Such examples as these are hardly true evidences of a morphological influence exerted by one language on another. Sapir, Edward
    In journalistic writing, "morphological" refers to the shape of organs and organisms in biological science, not the shape of words. But the idea is kind of the same.
Created on Wed Sep 11 03:45:26 EDT 2013

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