Glossary - M
*Main clause - a main clause is the essential component
of a sentence, and must contain at least a subject and a predicate
‘They
saw a cat’ ‘He hit the ball’ ‘I
exist’ etc.
‘Zij zagen een kat’, ‘Hij sloeg de
bal’, ‘Ik
besta’ enz.
Manner of articulation - the way in which a sound is
produced, as opposed to the place where a sound is produced
(tap, plosive,
fricative etc.)
Minimal pair - a pair of words that differ only in one sound, but mean something else. used to determine what phonemes a language has bank – rank , beer – here, care – dare, etc.
Monophthong - a single vowel sound, as opposed to a diphthong.
Morphology - in linguistics, morphology is the part of syntax that studies the structure of words.