Key words- Paper 1

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the basic unit of sound
phoneme
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a vowel sound that is the combination of two separate sounds, where a speaker glides from one to another.
diphthong
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the act of the vocal cords either vibrating (voiced) or not vibrating (unvoiced) in the production of a consonant sound.
voicing
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the position in the mouth where a consonant sound is produced.
place of articulation
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the extent to which airflow is interrupted by parts of the mouth in the production of consonant sounds.
manner of articulation
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a sound unit with a vowel at its centre
syllable
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a regional variety of speech that differs from other regional varieties in terms of pronunciation.
accent
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the ways that individuals adjust their speech patterns to match others.
accomodation
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the use of the sound system to mirror form or meaning.
sound iconity
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an internationally recognised system of phonetic transcription.
IPA
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literal meaning
denotative
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associated meaning
connotative
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language used in a non-literal way in order to describe something in another’s terms (
figurative language
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groups of words connected by a shared field of reference,
semantic field
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words that have equivalent meanings.
synonyms
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antonyms
words that have contrasting meanings
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words that label categories
hypernym
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words that can be included in a larger, more general category
hyponym
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vocabulary styles including slang, colloquialisms, taboo, formal and fixed levels.
levels of formality
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a technical vocabulary associated with a particular occupation or activity.
occupational register
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a language style associated with a particular social group.
sociolect
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a language style associated with a particular geographical region.
dialect
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the process of new word formation
neology
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the process of words changing meaning
semantic change
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the smallest grammatical unit.
morpheme
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a morpheme that can stand on its own as a word
free morpheme
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a morpheme that cannot stand on its own as a word, but combines with others to create a new word
affix
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a group of words centred around a head word.
phrase
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a group of words centred around a verb,
clause
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subject does the action
active voice
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the object is having the verb done to it
passive voice
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an implied meaning that has to be inferred as a result of a conversational maxim being broken
implicature
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the process of deriving implied meanings
inference
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using language to signal an attitude other than what has been literally expressed
irony
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words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to, where something is happening or when it is happening.
deixis
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communicative acts that carry meaning beyond the words and phrases used within them
speech acts
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words, phrases or clauses that help to organise what we say or write
discourse markers
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making reference back to something previously identified in a text
anaphoric
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making reference forwards to something as yet unidentified in a text.
cataphoric
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making reference to things beyond the language of a text itself
exophoric
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the use of discourses from one field as part of another
intertextuality
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the way in which a text is physically structured.
layout
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texts that rely on the interplay of different modes to help shape meaning
multimodal texts
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Card 2

Front

a vowel sound that is the combination of two separate sounds, where a speaker glides from one to another.

Back

diphthong

Card 3

Front

the act of the vocal cords either vibrating (voiced) or not vibrating (unvoiced) in the production of a consonant sound.

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

the position in the mouth where a consonant sound is produced.

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

the extent to which airflow is interrupted by parts of the mouth in the production of consonant sounds.

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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