Frege’s principlefree readingn
pleasurable, meaning-oriented reading.
see also extensive reading
free recall n
see recall
free response item n
see test item
free stressn
stresswhich does not occur regularly on the same syllable in words in a
particular language.
For example, English has free stress. The main stress may occur:
on the first syllable: e.g. cinterval
on the second syllable: e.g. incterrogate
on the third syllable: e.g. intercference
see also fixed stress
free translation n
see translation
free variation n
when two or more linguistic items occur in the same position without any
apparent change of meaning they are said to be in free variation.
For example, who and whom in the English sentence:
The manwho we saw.
whom
Such variations are now often considered as social variations or stylistic
variations.
see also variable, variation
freewriting n
also timed freewriting, quickwriting, quickwrite
(in teaching composition) a pre-writing activity (see composing processes)
in which students write as much as possible about a topic within a given
time period (for example, 3 minutes) without stopping. The goal is to
produce as much writing as possible without worrying about grammar or
accuracy, in order to develop fluency in writing and to produce ideas which
might be used in a subsequent writing task.
Frege’s principle n
another term for the compositionality principle