Metalanguage terms

3. A distinct unit of sound in a specified language.
7. An auxiliary verb that is used to express modality.
8. The rise and fall of speech.
10. A word or phrase that describes something.
12. A word used to identify any class of people, places or things.
13. Timing, Loudness, Stress, Pitch
14. Basic speech sound which the breath is at least partly obstructed.
15. Some syllables receive more emphasis than others within a word. Sometimes it can be the difference between a vowel and a noun.
17. Shows the relationship between two nouns, pronouns or other words.
19. An exclamation. E.g. (ah! Dear me!)
21. A basic unit of language of one word or several words.
22. Speech organs involved in the production of speech.
26. A class of sound that is produced with vibrations of the vocal cord but without audible friction.
27. The tempo or speed of speech
29. noun A noun that can form a plural and in the singlular, can be used with the indefinite article.
30. Are produced with vibrations of the vocal chords.
34. A word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective.
35. Affix in between a word.
38. the combination of two vowels to make one syllable and when produced the tongue changes its position. “right”
39. Words used instead of a noun to create variety, and so you don’t have to repeat the same noun over and over again.

1. The study of the forms of speech. How morphemes combine to make words.
2. Question, point, or show ownership
4. The study of sound
5. How the speech organs are used to obstruct airflow in the production of speech.
6. Smallest unit of languages that cannot be divided any further.
9. Suffixes of words that provide a grammatical purpose.
11. words Have most of the meaning in sentences, phrases or clauses and are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives and sometimes adverbs.
16. words Have little meaning and are used to make sentences grammatically correct.
18. Affixes that precedes the word. Adjusts its meaning.
20. A word used to describe an action.
23. The study of the form, meaning and behaviour of words.
24. Joins words, phrases, sentences or clauses together.
25. A word without any affixes.
26. Phonemes that are produced without vibration of the vocal chords.
28. The volume of speech
31. Affixes that are added to a word and changes its meaning or word class.
32. Affix that follows the word.
33. noun Things that are unaccountable by a number. Can be quantified by a word that signifies amount.
36. Contains all the sounds in the English Language.
37. Helper words that help show when an action happened; in the past, present or future.