8 de Abril de 2011 1.- WHAT IS GRAMMAR?

The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences, the study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic history. 2.- THE CONCEPT OF PART OF A SPEECH OR WORD CLASS
It denotes grammatical classes of words. There are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections. We will add one more type: articles.

3.- THE CONCEPT OF LEXIS Is the total word-stock or lexicon having items of lexical rather than grammatical, meaning. 4.- WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEXIS AND LEXICAL SETS? A lexical set is a group of words that share a similar feature and lexis is the total bank of words and phrases of a particular language, the artifact of which is known as a lexicon 5.- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMPOUND WORDS AND COLLOCATION Compound words do exactly what you are thinking; they compound two words together to create a different meaning and collocations are phrases that if separated by individual words would still reflect the meaning of what is trying to be said. 6.- THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF PHONOLOGY That is, the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use. 7.- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PHONEME AND A PHONEMIC SYMBOL is a group of slightly different sounds which are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question and phonemic symbola great help when it comes to learning to pronounce English words correctly, many words can have the same pronunciation but be written differently with different meanings, another factor in pronunciation is the how the word is stressed. 8.- DEFINITION OF SENTENCE STRESS Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat", is accent on certain words within a sentence. 9.- DEFINITION OF MAIN STRESS 1One word has only one stress. (One word cannot have two stresses. If you hear two stresses, you hear two words. Two stresses cannot be one word. It is true that there can be a "secondary" stress in some words. But a secondary stress is much smaller than the main [primary] stress, and is only used in long words.)

10.- DIFERENCES BETWEEN RHYTHM AND INTONATION. Rhythm is simply the timing of the musical sounds and intonation is the silences and is variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to distinguish words.

ARELI GONZLEZ NAVARRO