Linguistics terms

2. in semantics, part of the study of oppositeness of meaning
7. the study of language in relation to social factors
8. the perceptually distinct unit of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another
9. a diagram used in generative grammar as a convenient means of displaying the internal hierarchical structure of sentences as generated by a set of rules
10. a suggested defining property of human language whereby linguistic forms are said to lack any physical correspondence with the entities in the world to which they refer
11. a term used in the grammatical classification of words to refer to the main set of items which specify the attributes of nouns

1. a term used in linguistics and phonetics to refer to a stretch of speech about which no assumptions have been made in terms of linguistic theory (as opposed to the notion of sentence, which receives its definition from a theory of grammar)
3. one of the two general categories used for the classification of speech sounds, the other being consonant
4. in languages which express grammatical relationships by means of inflections, this term refers to the form taken by a noun phrase (often a single noun or pronoun) when it is the subject of a verb
5. the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
6. the smallest unit bearing meaning in a language