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fusional language

Language; Grammar

Fusional languages are those in which the divisions between morphemes tend to be difficult to identify and individual affixes tend to have complex meanings. Spanish, like many other European ...

A variant pronunciation of a morpheme, especially when it involves a change of phonemes. Allomorphs which are phonologically related provide cases of phonological alternation, which can be important ...

agglutinative language

Language; Grammar

Agglutinative (or agglutinating) languages are those which often combine their stems with many affixes to form long words.

isolating language

Language; Grammar

Isolating languages tend to form their words of single morphemes (that is, of roots without affixes). They often use several short words where another language might employ one longer word.

affricate

Language; Grammar

A complex consonant which consists of a stop followed immediately by a fricative at the same or nearly the same place of articulation. e.g. The affricate "ch" consists of the alveolar stop (t) ...

affix

Language; Grammar

A meaningful unit that is added to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix)of a word to change its meaning or its function or its part of speech.

grave accent

Language; Grammar

(pronounced GRAHV, not GRAYV): The "backwards" accent (diacritic) mark that is written on vowels like à or è. (It contrasts with the acute accent on á and é. ) It has been used to write a number of ...