TOPIC 9: THE ENGLISH

PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM III:

STRESS, RHYTHM AND
INTONATION. COMPARISON WORD STRESS
WITH THE SPANISH STRESS
STRESS IN PHRASES
PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM
THE ENGLISH PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM:

SEGMENTAL VS SUPRASEGMENTAL
stressed syllables
RH YTHM
FEATURES unstressed syllables
The English phonological system is rather complex

because it entails many different aspects, in the same Falling intonation.

INTONATION
way, it differs from the Spanish language to a large
Falling-rising intonation
extent. For this reason, we will try to be dealt with it

deeply. affective
Any linguistic utterance can be divided into segments FUNCTIONS. grammatical
belonging to a very limited inventory of sounds called
pragmatic
phonemes. But there is more to the acoustic image of a
COMPARISON ENGLISH
intonation
linguistic utterance than these segments. Some other
VS SPANISH rhythm
characteristics are called suprasegmental, and they are stressed and
different from segmental unstressed syllables,
 TOPIC 10: WORD-
FORMATION:
PROCESSES
AFFIXATION OR
DERIVATION
LEXIS.
CHARACTERIST
ICS OF WORD LEXICOGRAPHY
FORMATION IN SUFFIXATION
AND
PREFIXATION

ENGLISH. MORPHOLOGY

PREFIXATION,
SUFFIXATION MINOR DEVICES
AND COMPOUNDING

COMPOUNDING
Lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge in linguistics, a lexicon is a language's
inventory of lexemes. Therefore, lexicology is the study of the lexicon of a language (relations among
words, formation of words...), is the area of language study concerned with the nature, meaning, history
and use of the stock of lexemes existing in a language.
Lexicography is the art and science of compiling works such as dictionaries, glossaries, thesaurus,
synonym guides, where items of vocabulary are described.
Lexemes can be labelled lexical items and can be defined as the words as they appear in the dictionary.