Words and phrases that have a meaning related to inflection: (156 results)
Often used in the same context:
inflexion, cadence, intonations, vocalization, diphthongs, quaver, idioms, phrasing, diction, lilt, timbre, brooklynese, punctuation, enunciation, exclamation, verbs, mannerisms, staccatos, gesticulations, accent, diminuendo, annunciate, nuance, facial expression, portamento, prosody, italicizing, recitative, phoneme, expressiveness, trill, monotone, colloquialisms, twitches, pentatonic scale, pauses, conjugations, articulation, pronunciations, scansion, orotund, guttural, huskiness, vibrato, patter, chromatics, twang, songlike, syllable, phonology, semitones, assonance, accelerando, cantabile, nasality, melisma, wryness, syntax, vivace, abstractness, glissando, tonality, onomatopoeia, verbalization, anaphora, naturalness, unintelligibility, declarative sentence, drawl, upbeats, vowels, tremolos, vowel sound, auxiliary verb, tintinnabulation, directionality, nasal twang, singsong, fluidity, emotiveness, plaintiveness, motherese, interrogative, spinto, pianissimo, sarcasms, pensiveness, profundity, poetics, sibilant, legato, chromatic scale, vocalise, agnosia, rubato, characteristic, subtleties, ballade, planchette, poeticism, decrescendo, subjunctive mood, inflections, intonation, inflexions, adjective, declension, morpheme, preposition, suffix, tense, accentuation, affix, prefix, suffixes, pronoun, sound, adjectives, noun
Appears in the definition of:
weak, agreement, analytic, case, concord, conjugation, declension, grammatical case, inflectional ending, inflectional suffix, monotony, paradigmatic, polyptoton, stem vowel, strong, thematic vowel, uninflected
More specific:
caesura, conjugation, crouch, emphasis, hunch, paradigm, pitch contour, rhythm, speech rhythm, stress
More general:
Also try:change of shape, delivery, grammatical relation, manner of speaking, speech
— Adjectives for inflection: verbal, vocal, upward, slight, nominal, plural, strong, downward, regular, tense, particular, more...
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