Glossary: morphology and phonology

See derivation.

Measure of how often a word occurs in a particular corpus. See also token frequency, type frequency.

The process by which words are selected to be spoken or written.

The association by speakers of a language of the speech or writing signal with the entries in their mental lexicon.

A particular instance of a word used in some text or in speech.

An affix that does not correspond to anything in the pronunciation.

A word-formation process that changes the lexical category of a word without changing its phonological shape. Also called conversion.