word theis usually pronounced with a tense vowel in its citation form,
while it has a lax vowel when it is followed in context by a word beginning
with a consonant.clarification requestn
in conversation, a request by a listener for clarification of a previous utterance
by a speaker. For example:
Could you say that again?
Did you say....?
classn classifyv
(in linguistics) a group of linguistic items which have something in common.
For example, in all languages words can be grouped (classified) into word
classESaccording to how they combine with other words to form phrases
and sentences, how they change their form, etc. So horse, child, tree belong
to the English word class noun, and beautiful, noisy, hard belong to the
English word class adjective.
see also form class, open class, taxonomic
classical test theoryn
also true score model
a test theory that assumes that a test taker’s observed score, a score that this
person actually received on a test, has two additive components as follows:
X = T + E
Observed Score True Score Error Score
where true scoreis defined as a hypothetical score of a test taker’s true
ability, which is thought of as the average of the scores a test taker would be
expected to obtain if this person took the same test an infinite number of
times. According to this theory, the true score remains constant and any
non-systematic variation in the observed score is due to the error score.
see also item response theory
classification methodsn
see methods of development
classifier^1 n
a word or affix used with a noun, which shows the sub-class to which the
noun belongs.
For example, in Malay ekor “tail” is a classifier for animals and is used with
numerals:
lima ekor lembu “five oxen”
five ox
clarification request