Statistics for Linguistical Terms

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HINT		% Correct
how a verb changes to show a different person, tense, number or mood (I, you sg, he/she/it)	Conjugation	81%
The inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, to indicate number (at least singular and plural), case (nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.), and gender. (-s)	Declension	32%
The use of taking two morphemes to make a new word ie airport or sellout	Compounding	30%
The meaning of words	Semantics	25%
Building blocks of words	Morphemes	22%
What a sentence is about	Subject	19%
Kick the bucket	Idiom	16%
Tortilla, Cliche	Loanwords	15%
green/greener (grammatical variant)	Inflection	13%
Set of sounds that represent the same thign	Phoneme	8%
What you say about the subject	Predicate	8%
Relisations of the same morpheme	Allomorphs	6%
Easy peasy	Reduplication	6%
Creates a new word	Derivation	5%
/s/ is used in many places to indicate plural whereas /en/ is not so frequent	Productivity	4%
Editor to edit	Back formation	3%
Expressed via a preposition	Indirect object	3%
high morpheme:word	Synthetic	3%
Mouse to mice	Abault	1%
Low morpheme:word	Analytic	1%
Brunch and sci fi	Blends	1%
Clark Kent and Superman (th) and (t)	Complementary	1%
The creation of a new word form an already used word in a differnt word form ie Down ADV > Down V	Conversion	1%
High exponent:mopoheme eg 'were' is 3 components(To Be, Past tense, Pl)	Fusional	1%
Needs more words after the verb	Transitive verb	1%
Wisdom	Abstract singular noun	0%
Low exponent:morpheme	Agglutantive	0%
Consonant clusters	Alphabetic Principle	0%
MODAL - To be, DO - support, BE - passive (was sung), progressive (is singing), HAVE - perfect (has sung)	Auxillary Verbs	0%
Combine two characters, one to suggest meaning and one to suggest sound	Chinese way	0%
It- the form to be - X - that/who - Y	Cleft sentences	0%
Can be entirely replaced	Consituent	0%
Who/What did X?	Consituent Test	0%
Putting constituent in first position to change emphasis	Dislocation	0%
Swearword	Endocentric	0%
Derived from a name	Eponyms	0%
Downmarket	Exocentric	0%
Japanese (r) (l)	Free variation	0%
Meaning you can't predict and must be learned	Lexical item	0%
Traffic	Mass noun	0%
Test to see if two things are in parallel distribution	Minimal Pair Test	0%
Tooth - teeth	Mutated plural	0%
Forms which have common sematic distinctiveness and an identical phonemic form in all their occurances constitute a single morpheme	Nida's Principle	0%
Third, final, left	Non-scalar adjectives	0%
Just a word	Orthographic word	0%
Trousers or scissors	Pairs	0%
Pig and Big	Parallel	0%
The symbols that are easy to represent iconically	Rebus Principle	0%
Clothes, odds	Sets	0%
Sheep, Chinese, Series	Zero plurals	0%