Saturday, 18 May 2024, 5:01 PM
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Course: MA Morphology School of English Studies (Morphology 2017)
Glossary: Glossary: morphology and phonology
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TrillAn articulation in which one articulator is held loosely near another so that the flow of air between them sets them in motion, alternately sucking them together and blowing them apart. In some forms of Scottish English, [ r ] in rip is trilled. |
TrocheeA foot type which involves a strong-weak stress pattern, as in the Engl. word cancel (cf. iamb). |
TruncationShortening of a word or stem by removing one end and leaving the rest intact. Cf. also hypocoristics, deletion. |
Tympanic membraneAnother word for the eardrum. |
Type frequencyThe number of lexemes that exhibit a given morphological pattern, e.g. past tenses. Contrast token frequency. |
TypologyThe parametric study of crosslinguistic variation in grammatical structure. |