• reference (sem.) a speaker indicates which things in the world (including persons) are being talked about.
    • e.g. 'My son is in the beech tree.'
  • sense (sem.) the sense of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with other expressions in the language.
  • suprafix (initial stress derived noun) is a phonological process in English when the stress in a word is moved to the first syllable of certain verbs when they become nouns or adjectives
    • e.g. conflict
      • as a verb: I hope that won't con'flict in any way
      • as a noun: There will be no 'conflict
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