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The document is an answer key that provides definitions for linguistic terms arranged in a crossword puzzle format with terms listed across and down. Some of the terms defined include morph, pragmatic, affixation, syntax, phonetic, prefix, allomorphs, suffix, phonology, morphology, stem, morpheme, stress, intonation, bound, tone, word, homonyms, synonyms, root, affixes, derivational, inflectional, paradigm, recursion, morphophonemic, suppletion, infix, and suppletive.

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Answer Key: Across Down

The document is an answer key that provides definitions for linguistic terms arranged in a crossword puzzle format with terms listed across and down. Some of the terms defined include morph, pragmatic, affixation, syntax, phonetic, prefix, allomorphs, suffix, phonology, morphology, stem, morpheme, stress, intonation, bound, tone, word, homonyms, synonyms, root, affixes, derivational, inflectional, paradigm, recursion, morphophonemic, suppletion, infix, and suppletive.

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Answer key

Across Down
2. Stem 1. Intonation

6. Affixation 3. Morph

11. Homonyms 4. Pragmatic

12. Root 5. Derivational

13. Stress 7. Inflectional

17. Tone 8. Free

18. Morphophonemic 9. Paradigm

20. Morpheme 10. Phonetic

21. Allomorphs 14. Synonyms

23. Suppletive 15. Suppletion

24. Recursion 16. Morphology

27. Suffix 19. Affixes

28. Phonology 22. Prefix

29. Syntax 25. Bound

30. Infix 26. Word


Morph / physical form representing some morphemes in a language.

Pragmatic / subfield of linguistics, studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning.

Affixation / process that forms new words two or more independent words containing more than one
root.

Syntax / the arrangement of words to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Phonetic / relating to speech sounds.

Prefix / precedes the root or stem.

Allomorphs / phonemic variants of a single morpheme which are in complementary distribution.

Suffix / follows the root/stem.

Phonology / the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds.

Morphology / module of the grammar that contains information regarding words their structure &
meaning.

Stem / the base which affixes are attached to create more complex form that may be another stem or
word.

Morpheme / minimal meaning-bearing unit.

Stress / More pressure articulation, one part of the sound which makes it stand out more than the
other parts of the sounds.
Intonation / the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.

Bound / a morpheme that never occurs alone.

Tone / a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.

Word / a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing.

Homonyms / morphemes which sound the same but have different meanings.

Synonyms / morphemes which sound different but have the same meanings.

Root / the lexical/semantic "center" of a word.

Affixes / morphemes which are added to other morphemes (roots, stems).

Derivational / creates the dictionary of stems from roots, other stems, and derivational affixes.

Inflectional / adds inflectional affixes to stems to form words.

Paradigm / full set of inflected forms of a given stem.

Recursion / the reapplication of rules to the results of their prior applications.

Morphophonemic / variation in the phonemic shape of a morpheme.

Suppletion / extremely irregular morphophonemic variation in which the morpheme's variants have
entirely different.
Infix / inserted into the root/stem.

Suppletive / a term used to refer to inflectional forms in which the regular rules do not apply.

Free / a morpheme that may occur alone.

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