Thursday, September 20, 2007

Tyler's Vocab 5th















Paradigm:





-Example of a model or pattern.





-noun





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-Pattern, Model, Example




-The baby is a paradigm of a young child.








Philology:




-Studying of ancient scrolls, example the bible.




-noun




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-Language, philologist, philological



-The people who study the bible are philologists.






Phonology:



-study of distribution of speech sounds in language



-noun



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-accent, grammer, phonologies


-It is key to learn the correct phonology of a second langugae you are learning.




Rhetoric:


-study of correct uses of language


-noun


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-Speech, rhetor, palaver

-The poet wrote all his poems in a rhetoric syle.


Syntax:

-study of sentence structure and patterns in sentences.

-noun

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-structure, grammer, linguistics
-The syntex of the sentences were perfect.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Rhetoric is a noun; you used it as an adjective.
You misspelled "syntax" in your example sentence.
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