Metalanguage terms

1. The rise and fall of speech.
3. A word without any affixes.
4. Affix that follows the word.
6. A class of sound that is produced with vibrations of the vocal cord but without audible friction.
7. The tempo or speed of speech
12. Speech organs involved in the production of speech.
18. A word used to identify any class of people, places or things.
19. The study of sound
20. A word used to describe an action.
22. noun A noun that can form a plural and in the singlular, can be used with the indefinite article.
23. An auxiliary verb that is used to express modality.
25. Suffixes of words that provide a grammatical purpose.
26. the combination of two vowels to make one syllable and when produced the tongue changes its position. “right”
28. Some syllables receive more emphasis than others within a word. Sometimes it can be the difference between a vowel and a noun.
30. Affix in between a word.
32. Are produced with vibrations of the vocal chords.
36. Words used instead of a noun to create variety, and so you don’t have to repeat the same noun over and over again.
37. A word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective.

1. Affixes that precedes the word. Adjusts its meaning.
2. Affixes that are added to a word and changes its meaning or word class.
5. An exclamation. E.g. (ah! Dear me!)
8. A word or phrase that describes something.
9. Joins words, phrases, sentences or clauses together.
10. How the speech organs are used to obstruct airflow in the production of speech.
11. words Have little meaning and are used to make sentences grammatically correct.
12. Timing, Loudness, Stress, Pitch
13. Basic speech sound which the breath is at least partly obstructed.
14. Shows the relationship between two nouns, pronouns or other words.
15. Question, point, or show ownership
16. Contains all the sounds in the English Language.
17. The study of the form, meaning and behaviour of words.
20. Phonemes that are produced without vibration of the vocal chords.
21. Helper words that help show when an action happened; in the past, present or future.
24. A basic unit of language of one word or several words.
27. A distinct unit of sound in a specified language.
29. The study of the forms of speech. How morphemes combine to make words.
31. The volume of speech
33. Smallest unit of languages that cannot be divided any further.
34. words Have most of the meaning in sentences, phrases or clauses and are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives and sometimes adverbs.
35. noun Things that are unaccountable by a number. Can be quantified by a word that signifies amount.