Download Glossary - Rachael

Dr. Rachael-Anne Knight
Language Change
[email protected]
Inset Session University of Reading
www.rachaelanne.co.uk
July 2004
Glossary
Affricate
A manner of articulation. A stop combined
with a fricative as in the first and last sounds
of ‘church’ and ‘judge’
Analytic
A type of language that signals the
relationships of words in a sentence by word
order
Case
The form of a word which shows its
relationship to other words in the sentence
(object, subject etc)
Fricative
A manner of articulation where the vocal
tract is narrowed to produced friction such as
the first sounds in ‘fee’, ‘she’ and ‘sea’
Gender
A grammatical category into which nouns are
divided in some languages. Other words
(determiners, verbs etc.) may be inflected
differently in order to agree with the noun.
Hypotaxis
Subordination.
embedding
Inflection
Change in the form or a word to reflect its
role in a sentence
Modal Verb
Parataxis
Clauses are joined by
Auxiliary verbs expressing degrees
certainness (might, ought, shall etc)
The joining
conjunctions
of
clauses
without
of
overt
Schwa
The mid-central vowel transcribed //. The
vowel at the beginning of ‘about’
Stop
A sound made by completely blocking and
then unblocking the airflow. Such as the first
sound in ‘pat’, ‘bat’, ‘tat’ and ‘cat’
Synthetic
A language that uses inflections to signal
relationships between words in a sentence
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Dr. Rachael-Anne Knight
Language Change
[email protected]
Inset Session University of Reading
www.rachaelanne.co.uk
July 2004
Voiced
A sound made with vibration of the vocal
folds
Voiceless
A sound made without vibration of the vocal
folds
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