linguistic unit
any of a range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable
sentence constituent
linguistic unit constituting a phrase, a proposition or an expression
rime
second part of a syllable, from the vowel on
phrase
sequence of at least two words
segment
smallest temporally discrete unit identifiable in speech
word form
lexical form of a word, e.g. an inflected form
phone
basic unit of sound in speech
allomorph
any one of multiple variant forms of a single morpheme
glosseme
Historical term for a smallest linguistic unit
grapheme
smallest semantically distinguishing unit in a written language
complement
word, phrase or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression
sememe
a semantic language unit of meaning correlative to a morpheme
prosodic unit
segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour
linguistic variable
feature with variation that is referentially identical but carries social and stylistic meaning
phonetic word
Sequence of morphemes clustered around one nuclear stress
phonological word
constituent in the phonological hierarchy, higher than the syllable and the foot but lower than intonational phrase and the phonological phrase; prosodic domain in which phonological features may spread from one morph to another
syllable
unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds
mora
phonological unit
lexical item
basic unit of a language’s lexicon
yes
linguistic particle or adverb used to show agreement, acceptance, consensus, appreciation or an affirmative opinion
translation unit
single cognitive unit of text