English Language word defintions

Diacronic: a change that has occured over time. 

Synchronic: change that occurs at a specific moment.

Vowels: with a vowel or vowel sound, the breath has an uniterrupted passage through the mouth.

Consonant: with a consonant, the breath is interrupted as it passes through the mouth by the teeth, lips, tongue and hard and soft palates.

What is the function of an adverbial phrase?

To modify a verb. Temporal-time, place and manner.

What does discourse structure refer to?

How a text is structured.

What is the function of a preposition?

Tells you where something is, i.e, on, inside, above, etc.

What does syntax refer to?

The arrangement of words.

Accent: how we shape vowel sounds. Sounds of the words spoken, specifically vowel sounds.

Dialect: specific words to an area-actual words spoken from different areas.

Idiolect: a specific persons dialect-different to anyone else's.