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prosodic features

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pitch

The level at which a sound is produced on a scale from ‘low’ to ‘high,’ reflecting the frequency of vibration of the vocal folds

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stress

the use of extra respiratory energy during the production of a syllable giving its articulation an extra degree of force

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volume

the amount of sound produced from soft to loud

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tempo

the speech at which an utterance is produced from slow to fast

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intonation

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vocal effects

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coughs

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laughter

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breath

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sounds in connected speech and connected speech processes

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assimilation

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vowel reduction

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elision

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insertion

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features of Broad accents in Australian English

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features of Cultivated accents in Australian English

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features of General accents in Australian English

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phonological patterning in texts

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alliteration

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assonance

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consonance

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onomatopoeia

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rhythm

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rhyme

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word classes

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nouns

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verbs

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auxiliary verbs

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modal verbs

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adjectives

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adverbs

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prepositions

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pronouns

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conjunctions

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determiners

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interjections

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function words

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content words

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affixation

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prefix

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suffix

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infix

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inflection

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derivation

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root morphemes

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bound morphemes

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free morphemes

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suffixation in Australian English

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word loss

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word-formation processes

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blends

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acronyms

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initialisms

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shortenings

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compounding

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contractions

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collocations

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neologisms

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borrowing

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commonisation

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archaism

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morphological patterning

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conversion of word class

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creative word formation

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lexical choice and patterning.

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phrases

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clauses

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sentences

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sentence structures

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sentence fragments

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simple

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compound

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complex

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compound-complex sentences

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ellipses

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nominalisation

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coordination

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subordination

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sentence types and their communicative function in texts

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declarative

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imperative

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interrogative

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exclamative

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basic functions in clause structure

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subject

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object

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complement

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adverbial

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active voice

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passive voice

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agentless passive

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with agent passive

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syntactic patterning in texts

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antithesis

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listing

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parallelism.

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code-switching

the practice of alternating between two or more languages or dialects in conversation

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factors that contribute to a text’s coherence

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cohesion

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