Linguistic Terminology

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Across
  1. 2. words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meaning
  2. 5. the smallest unit of meaning in a word
  3. 6. the study of the historical and cultural origin of words
  4. 8. the systematic relationship between sounds and letters
  5. 9. vowel phoneme that often occurs in an unstressed syllable and is the most common occurring vowel sound in spoken English words
  6. 10. unit of meaning that attaches to the end of a base word or root
Down
  1. 1. the study of a system of conventional sequences of letters at the word level, including the positional constraints for graphemes
  2. 3. the study of parts within words that signal meaning and/or grammar
  3. 4. words that are spelled alike but have different pronunciations and meanings
  4. 7. unit of meaning often deriving from Greek or Latin originally
  5. 8. unit of meaning that attaches to the beginning of a base word or word root