Across
- 3. stress, rhythm and intonation
- 6. Words, known to and used by most native speakers in generalized literary (formal) or colloquial (informal) communication.
- 8. These words mark the message as informal, non-official, conversational.
- 9. Normative words, devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects, but used outside of them, carry a strong flavour of the locality where they belong.
- 11. denoting historical phenomena which are no more in use (such as "yeoman", "vassal", "falconet"). These are historical words.
- 12. an abstract term, specific to a particular language (vowels and consonants).
- 14. Words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, are highly emotive and expressive and as such, lose their originality rather fast and are replaced by newer formations.
- 15. in the course of language history ousted by newer synonymic words.
Down
- 1. words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique.
- 2. a physical realization of a speech sound.
- 3. deals with sound system languages
- 4. Coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite conversation.
- 5. Words, close to slang, also being substandard, expressive and emotive, but, unlike slang they are used by limited groups of people, united either professionally.
- 7. These words serve to satisfy communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages.
- 10. deals with the physical realization of the elements of the sound system.
- 13. Words, possessing no stylistic connotation and suitable for any communicative situation.
