Acronyms - Remembering and Classification

Question 1

Phonological Patterning

Answer 1

RACORA
Rhythm, Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Rhyme, Assonance

Question 2

Connected Speech Processes

Answer 2

Assimilation
Elision
Vowel Reduction

Question 3

Lexical Patterning
Word Formation Processes & Word Loss

Answer 3

Nominalisation
Borrowings
Commonisation
Neologisms
Archaism
Obsolescence

Question 4

Morphological Patterning
(Linguistic Innovation)

Answer 4

A CAB IS BACC

Affixation
Compounding
Abbreviation
Blending
Initialism
Shortening
Backformation (removing affixes)
Acronym
Contraction (can’t)
Conversion

Question 5

Syntactic Patterning

Answer 5

Listing
Parallelism
Antithesis

Question 6

Semantic Change

Answer 6

Semantic Broadening
Semantic Narrowing
Shift
Elevation
Deterioration

Question 7

Semantic Patterning

Answer 7

FLAIM HOPPS

Figurative Language
Lexical Ambiguity (obfuscation)
Animation
Irony
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Personification
Pun
Simile

Question 8

Coherence

Answer 8

FLICC
Formatting
Logical Ordering
Inference & Implicature
Consistency and Conventions
Cohesion (***low yield)

Question 9

Cohesion

Answer 9

Lexical: repetition, affixation, ellipses and substitution
Semantic: Synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, collocation
Referential: Anaphoric, cataphoric, referential
Syntactic: Syntactic patterning
Conjunctions & Adverbials: parataxis, polysyndeton, asyndeton

Question 10

Information Flow

Answer 10

Focus: Front/end
Clefting: It-cleft, pseudo-cleft
Given new, topic-comment, end weight -> strategies

Question 11

Spoken Discourse Features

Answer 11

COMAND

Closings and Openings
Overlapping Speech
* collaborative
* interruptive
* timing
* backchanneling
Minimal response (paralinguistic + backchanneling)
Adjacency Pairs
* question-answer
* greeting-acknowledgement
* compliment-acknowledgement
* empathy-acknowledgement
Non-fluency Features
* False starts
* Repetition
* Pauses
* Pause fillers
Dicourse particles/markers

Question 12

Prosodics

Answer 12

PISTV

Pitch
Intonation
Stress
Tempo
Volume

Question 13

Spoken Discourse Strategies

Answer 13

TTMC

Topic managment
Turn-taking
Management of repair sequences
Codeswitching