Okay, so I was thinking– we really did gloss over just about everything when we ran through linguistics this week. So here’s a brief glossary of particularly important terms:<\/p>\n
Allomorphs: Two phonetically similar and semantically identical morphemes that never appear in the same context.
\nAllophones: Two sounds that are phonetically similar and never appear in the same context.
\nCognate: Two words in related languages that are recognizably similar in both sound and in meaning.
\nContent words: Words that have specific, definable meanings; basically any word in a sentence that’s not a function word is a content word.
\nFunction words: Words that only exist to serve the grammar of the language; they are often difficult to specifically define and short in length. Examples in English include “and”, “but”, “the”, etc.
\nMorpheme: The smallest linguistic unit that still has meaning.
\nPhoneme: A sound that is used by a language to distinguish between words.<\/p>\n
That’s everything I can explain for now. Comment if you want more info, want additional terms defined\/explained, whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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