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Semivowel (1,102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

enhancing the contrast by moving the former to another place of articulation ([ʒ]), like in Rioplatense Spanish. Diphthong Hiatus (linguistics) List of phonetics
Diachrony and synchrony (949 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
into account. Synchronic linguistics aims at describing a language at a specific point of time, often the present. In contrast, a diachronic (from δια-
Phone (phonetics) (693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In phonetics (a branch of linguistics), a phone is any distinct speech sound or gesture, regardless of whether the exact sound is critical to the meanings
Verse (poetry) (491 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
stanzas. Verse in the uncountable (mass noun) sense refers to poetry in contrast to prose. Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme, the
Philology (2,062 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
analysis), is contrasted with linguistics due to Ferdinand de Saussure's insistence on the importance of synchronic analysis. While the contrast continued
Phoneme (5,624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a set of phones that can distinguish one word
Fortis and lenis (1,820 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, fortis and lenis (/ˈfɔːrtɪs/ FOR-tiss and /ˈliːnɪs, ˈlɛnɪs/ LEE-niss
Structural linguistics (4,385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating
Archaism (996 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(immutatio) and addition (adiectio). Anachronism Fossil word Historical linguistics Legal English Linguistic conservatism List of alternative country names
Vernacular (5,884 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
national language" as opposed to foreign words. In general linguistics, a vernacular is contrasted with a lingua franca, a third-party language in which persons
Indosphere (1,361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Southeast Asian, and East Asian regions. It is commonly used in areal linguistics in contrast with Sinosphere. The Tibeto-Burman family of languages, which extends
Affricate (2,326 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Xhosa and Zulu using South African speech databases". Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 23 (4): 459–474. doi:10.2989/16073610509486401
Attested language (175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, attested languages are languages (living or dead) that have been documented and for which the evidence (“attestation”) has survived to
Semantics (15,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
disciplines investigate language and meaning. Semantics contrasts with other subfields of linguistics focused on distinct aspects of language. Phonology studies
Patois (767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars
Voicelessness (777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, it is a type of phonation, which
Languages in Contrast (119 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Languages in Contrast is a peer-reviewed academic journal of contrastive linguistics established in 1998 and published biannually by John Benjamins Publishing
Historical language (381 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
reconstructed languages (that is, the proto-languages) of theoretical linguistics. One of the approaches to defining and using the concept of historical
Contrastive linguistics (572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Contrastive linguistics is a practice-oriented linguistic approach that seeks to describe the differences and similarities between a pair of languages
Extinct language (2,922 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
speakers, especially if the language also has no living descendants. In contrast, a dead language is a language that no longer has any first-language speakers
Agreement (linguistics) (4,152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated agr) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. It is an instance
Transphonologization (1,684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In historical linguistics, transphonologization (also known as rephonologization or cheshirization
Proper noun (4,717 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
extent, governed by convention. A distinction is normally made in current linguistics between proper nouns and proper names. By this strict distinction, because
Linguistics (9,260 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked
Lexical verb (149 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically
Continuum (measurement) (470 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
quantitative transitions without abrupt changes or discontinuities. In contrast, categorical theories or models explain variation using qualitatively different
Plosive (2,183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
International Phonetic Association and the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association use the term "plosive". Either "occlusive" or "stop" may
Phonogram (linguistics) (154 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
phonography and can be called phonographic. Language portal Linguistics portal Look up phonogram (linguistics) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stötzner, Andreas
Ditransitive verb (1,230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
According to certain linguistics considerations, these objects may be called direct and indirect, or primary and secondary. This is in contrast to monotransitive
Tone (linguistics) (11,926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages
Deep linguistic processing (649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
language processing framework which draws on theoretical and descriptive linguistics. It models language predominantly by way of theoretical syntactic/semantic
Diaphoneme (6,601 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to be adequate for more than one dialect of a language. In historical linguistics, it is concerned with the reflexes of an ancestral phoneme as a language
Language (16,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of contrast, such transformational grammars are also commonly used in formal logic, in formal linguistics, and in applied computational linguistics. In
Stative verb (1,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
According to some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action
Sibilant (3,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
aboriginal California", Journal of California Anthropology, Papers in Linguistics, 1: 39–63 Dalbor, John B. (1980), "Observations on Present-Day Seseo
Syntactic movement (2,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Extraposition Gapping Inversion Logical form (linguistics) Move alpha PRO (linguistics) Raising (linguistics) Scope (formal semantics) Scrambling Shifting
Phonetics (10,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign
Paraphyly (3,836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
phylogenetics (a subfield of biology) and in the tree model of historical linguistics. Paraphyletic groups are identified by a combination of synapomorphies
Linguistic typology (3,543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
explain the universal tendencies. Linguistic typology is contrasted with genealogical linguistics on the grounds that typology groups languages or their
Syntactic movement (2,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Extraposition Gapping Inversion Logical form (linguistics) Move alpha PRO (linguistics) Raising (linguistics) Scope (formal semantics) Scrambling Shifting
Function word (698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships
Assimilation (phonology) (2,203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 38-55. Crowley, Terry. (1997) An Introduction to Historical Linguistics. 3rd edition. Oxford University Press
Natural language (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that occurs naturally in a human
Modal voice (827 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in speech and singing in most languages. It is also the term used in linguistics for the most common phonation of vowels. The term "modal" refers to the
Sulka language (1,618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Cognitive semantics (3,303 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement. Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. Cognitive semantics holds that language
Langue and parole (1,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics. The French term langue ('[an individual] language') encompasses the
Object pronoun (476 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the
Austroasiatic languages (5,681 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
at Diversity Linguistics: Retrospect and Prospect, 1–3 May 2015 (Leipzig, Germany), Closing conference of the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck
Machine-readable dictionary (574 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
was printed before on paper. Although being both used by programs, in contrast, the term NLP dictionary is preferred when the dictionary was built from
Nasalization (1,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
a minority of world languages around the world have nasal vowels as contrasting phonemes. That is the case, among others, of French, Portuguese, Hindustani
Information structure (1,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
or contrastive information. Some theories (in line with work by Mats Rooth) link focus to the presence of alternatives (see Focus (linguistics) § Alternative
Theory of language (3,873 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Theory of language is a topic in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. It has the goal of answering the questions "What is language?"; "Why
Icelandic Sign Language (1,201 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and grandfather which contrast with each other by handshape, do and teach which contrast by orientation, fun and sick which contrast by movement, mother
Grammaticality (4,991 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, grammaticality is determined by the conformity to language usage as derived by the grammar of a particular speech variety. The notion
Classification scheme (information science) (640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
relations (part-whole relations) and from object-role relations. In linguistics, subordinate concepts are described as hyponyms of their respective superordinates;
Phonotactics (1,569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
latter appears as /ɣn/) and were permitted in Old and Middle English. In contrast, in some Slavic languages /l/ and /r/ are used alongside vowels as syllable
Linguistic areas of the Americas (4,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
areal linguistics was a dissertation by Joel Sherzer, which was published as Sherzer (1976). In American Indian Languages: the Historical Linguistics of
Icelandic phonology (4,359 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
voiced or unvoiced. Icelandic has an aspiration contrast between plosives, rather than a voicing contrast, similar to Faroese, Danish and Standard Mandarin
Pragmatics (5,031 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized
Content word (331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Content words, in linguistics, are words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur. In a traditional
Grammar (3,128 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural rules on speakers' or writers' usage and creation of clauses, phrases, and
Language family (4,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"family" reflects the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological
Morphological derivation (953 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as un-
Zuni phonology (1,710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
southwestern United States is described here. Phonology is a branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their
Sonorant (713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
recorded in linguistics, with 12 coronal sonorants alone. Coronal laterals, nasals, and rhotics had a fortis–lenis and a palatalization contrast: /N, n, Nʲ
Phonological change (5,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In historical linguistics, phonological change is any sound change that alters the distribution
Text linguistics (3,111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars
Liquid consonant (2,112 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Anderson, Catherine (2018-03-15), "3.5 Syllabic Consonants", Essentials of Linguistics, McMaster University, retrieved 2021-02-02 Mailhammer, Robert; Restle
Badimaya language (1,211 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Australian language' pp. 35 in ''Papers in Australian Linguistics'' No. 17, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra. Dunn, Leone. 1988. 'Badimaya, a Western Australian
Underlying representation (385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
some models of phonology as well as morphophonology in the field of linguistics, the underlying representation (UR) or underlying form (UF) of a word
Lakes Plain languages (1,634 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
families, Lakes Plain languages have ergative case marking systems. In contrast, most languages of northern Papua New Guinea have accusative case marking
Proto-Min (4,989 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
manner contrast in stops and affricates, compared with the three-way contrast in Middle Chinese and modern Wu varieties and the two-way contrast in most
Transitive verb (1,618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
or more objects, for example, 'to enjoy' in Donald enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which do not have objects, for example, 'to arise'
Central Tai languages (378 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Aberrant Son?" (PDF), The Fifth International Symposium on Languages and Linguistics Gregerson, Kenneth J., and Jerold A. Edmondson. 1998. Some puzzles in
Synthetic language (2,931 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and oligosynthetic languages (only found in constructed languages). In contrast, rule-wise, the analytic languages rely more on auxiliary verbs and word
Areal feature (1,365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
proto-language, i.e. a common ancestor language. That is, an areal feature is contrasted with lingual-genealogically determined similarity within the same language
Phrase (1,281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a
Click consonant (6,906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
⟨ǂ͡qχʼ⟩ Rosemary Beam de Azcona, Sound Symbolism. Available at http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rosemary/55-fall2003-onomatopoeia.pdf Archived 23 June
Shiksha (2,886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
—Pāninīya-śikṣā Shiksha, states Hartmut Scharfe, was the first branch of linguistics to develop as an independent Vedic field of study among the Vedangas
Cantonese (9,911 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(九声六调). However, these are seldom counted as phonemic tones in modern linguistics, which prefer to analyse them as conditioned by the following consonant
Binding (linguistics) (3,798 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, binding is the phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents.[citation needed]
Vowel reduction (2,133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Indo-European ablaut, as well as other changes reconstructed by historical linguistics. Vowel reduction is one of the sources of distinction between a spoken
Cantonese (9,911 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(九声六调). However, these are seldom counted as phonemic tones in modern linguistics, which prefer to analyse them as conditioned by the following consonant
Null morpheme (587 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Covert (linguistics) Ellipsis (linguistics) Lemma (morphology) Marker (linguistics) Null allomorph Zero (linguistics) Disfix "Lexicon of Linguistics". lexicon
Binding (linguistics) (3,798 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, binding is the phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents.[citation needed]
Affix (905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The main two categories are derivational and inflectional
Sikkimese language (3,184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
lost contrast among speakers. Plosives and affricates contrast in four distinct ways and it only occurs in the word-initial position. The four contrast ways
Extension (semantics) (773 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
several fields of study that treat the use of signs — for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language
Sentence (linguistics) (1,429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional
Definition (4,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
definition; rather, one simply comes to understand the use of the term. Linguistics portal Philosophy portal Mathematics portal Analytic proposition Circular
Secondary stress (525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
languages have at most one degree of stress on the phonemic level (English can contrast up to four levels of stress, that is, three degrees of stressed and one
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (412 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"weapons" Has some whimsical entries – such as one for how to spell shh – in contrast to AP's drier, more utilitarian format (though the NYT book is not alone
Ideophone (1,686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
between form and meaning exhibited by ideophones. In the discipline of linguistics, ideophones have sometimes been overlooked or treated as a subgroup of
Optical braille recognition (716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Braille is generally printed on solid-color paper, with no ink to produce contrast between the raised characters and the background paper. However, imperfections
Natural language processing (6,530 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
end, natural language processing often borrows ideas from theoretical linguistics. The technology can then accurately extract information and insights
Inalienable possession (7,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, inalienable possession (abbreviated INAL) is a type of possession in which a noun is obligatorily possessed by its possessor. Nouns or
Burmish languages (1,531 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Analysis and Asian Linguistics: to honour R.K. Sprigg. (Pacific Linguistics C-104). Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of
Voiced bilabial fricative (1,275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
phonemic contrast between the voiced bilabial fricative and the bilabial approximant. The Mapos Buang language of New Guinea contains this contrast. Its bilabial
Zapotec languages (6,520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Journal of American Linguistics Operstein, Natalie. 2012. Proto-Zapotec *tty/*ty and *ttz/*tz. International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 78, No. 1
Social science (9,288 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, communication science, psychology and political
Altaic languages (7,104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
found wider support. In particular it has support from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and remains influential as a substratum
Structuralism (4,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague, Moscow, and Copenhagen schools of linguistics. As an intellectual
Course in General Linguistics (3,568 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures
Generalized phrase structure grammar (731 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR". aclweb.org. The Association for Computational Linguistics: 243–250. doi:10.3115/981175.981209. Retrieved 16 December 2018. Sag
Regularization (linguistics) (375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Errors in early word use Spelling pronunciation Hudson, Grover (1999). Essential Introductory Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-20304-4. v t e
Pseudoword (1,628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
salad, in contrast, may contain legible and intelligible words but without semantic or syntactic correlation or coherence. Within linguistics, a pseudoword
Hmong–Mien languages (1,530 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and a Language Family in Flux: Sino-Tibetan: a Snapshot". Language and Linguistics Compass. 2 (3): 422–441. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00061.x. "On the
Autonomy of syntax (643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, the autonomy of syntax is the assumption that syntax is arbitrary and self-contained with respect to meaning, semantics, pragmatics, discourse
Logical form (linguistics) (1,847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
as such: "the argument of a QNP is always the sister of the QNP." In linguistics, wh-phrases are operators binding variables at LF, like other quantifier
Transcription (linguistics) (1,544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
of a text from one script to another. In the academic discipline of linguistics, transcription is an essential part of the methodologies of (among others)
Proof theory (2,641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematics literature, by contrast, requires weeks of peer review to be checked, and may still contain errors. In linguistics, type-logical grammar, categorial
Intersective modifier (487 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, an intersective modifier is an expression which modifies another by delivering the intersection of their denotations. One example is the
Grapheme (1,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme is derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) 'write'
Stress in Spanish (1,141 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2005). "Quasi-phonemic contrasts in Spanish". WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Flemish dialects (1,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
literally translated from French (also called gallicisms); others, in contrast, are actually remarkably purist, such as droogzwierder (a compound of Dutch
Navajo phonology (5,114 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of stop contrasts in Navajo". In Nespor, M.; Vogel, I. (eds.). Dam phonology. HIL phonology papers. Vol. II. Holland Institute of Linguistics Publications
Transformational grammar (4,854 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of
Tenuis consonant (402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a tenuis consonant (/ˈtɛn.juːɪs/ or /ˈtɛnuːɪs/) is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized. In other words, it has
Bound and free morphemes (719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a bound morpheme is a morpheme (the elementary unit of morphosyntax) that can appear only as part of a larger expression, while a free
Lexical resource (593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
was printed before on paper. Although being both used by programs, in contrast, the term NLP dictionary is preferred when the dictionary was built from
Verbosity (2,276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of ease with which a reader can understand written text Redundancy (linguistics) – Information that is expressed more than once Tachylalia – Extremely
Word Grammar (282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of cognitive linguistics, which models language as part of general knowledge and not as a specialised mental faculty. This is in contrast to the nativism
Selection (linguistics) (1,263 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, selection denotes the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Predicates select their arguments, which
Constructed language (5,165 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
setting an added layer of realism; for experimentation in the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and machine learning; for artistic creation; for
Internal reconstruction (2,890 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Historical Linguistics (3rd ed.). Edinburgh University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-7486-7559-3. Anttila, Raimo (1989). Historical and Comparative Linguistics. John
British Sign Language (4,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
estimates there are 151,000 BSL users in the UK, of whom 87,000 are Deaf. By contrast, in the 2011 England and Wales Census 15,000 people living in England and
Verbosity (2,276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of ease with which a reader can understand written text Redundancy (linguistics) – Information that is expressed more than once Tachylalia – Extremely
Lexical semantics (4,502 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
different lexical units had a decisive role in the field of "generative linguistics" during the 1960s. The term generative was proposed by Noam Chomsky in
Selection (linguistics) (1,263 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, selection denotes the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Predicates select their arguments, which
Subsective modifier (836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a subsective modifier is an expression which modifies another by delivering a subset of its denotation. For instance, the English adjective
Niger–Congo languages (7,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in Wolof" (PDF). Occasional Papers in Applied Linguistics (2–3). Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on September
Morpheme (2,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
10 April 2014. Department of Linguistics (2011). Language files: Materials for an introduction to language and linguistics (11th ed.). Ohio State University
Meronomy (322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
taxonomical classification is taxon. These conceptual structures are used in linguistics and computer science, with applications in biology. The part–whole relationship
Hopi language (3,535 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
L. (eds.), The life of language: Papers in linguistics in honor of William Bright, Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
Bootstrapping (linguistics) (4,526 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Bootstrapping is a term used in language acquisition in the field of linguistics. It refers to the idea that humans are born innately equipped with a
Dialect (7,063 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
FrancoAngeli. p. 35. ISBN 9788846439123. Crystal, David (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (6 ed.). Blackwell Publishing. p. 142–144. ISBN 978-1-4051-5296-9
Contrastive distribution (521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A contrastive distribution in linguistics is a relationship between two or more different elements
Analytic language (814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
("The boy's ball" vis-à-vis "The boy has a ball"). Mandarin Chinese, by contrast, has no inflections on its nouns: compare 一天 yī tiān 'one day', 三天 sān
Calque (1,248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Look up calque in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language
Sanmalan (616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
with the Cholan conquest of Srivijaya. This theory is corroborated by linguistics and genetics as Zamboanga is, according to anthropologist Alfred Kemp
Verner's law (2,176 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nineteenth Century Historical IE Linguistics Ch.11 "An exception to the first sound shift" by Winfred P. Lehmann — From the Linguistics Research Center at the University
Neologism (2,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a neologism (/niˈɒləˌdʒɪzəm/; also known as a coinage) is any relatively recent and isolated term, word, or phrase that nevertheless has
Unaccusative verb (3,557 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose grammatical subject is not a semantic agent. In other words, the subject does not actively
Soft science fiction (1,914 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
category of science fiction with two different definitions, defined in contrast to hard science fiction. It can refer to science fiction that explores
Pitch-accent language (11,497 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
contrasting pitch (linguistic tone) rather than by loudness or length, as in some other languages like English. Pitch-accent languages also contrast with
Ethnologue (4,632 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
published by SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization with an international office
Historical linguistics (2,554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include:
Tap and flap consonants (1,617 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Otherwise a tap/flap is similar to a brief stop. Taps and flaps also contrast with trills, where the airstream causes the articulator to vibrate. Trills
Principle of compositionality (1,404 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Frege's work. The principle of compositionality is highly debated in linguistics. Among its most challenging problems there are the issues of contextuality
Sulcalization (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
accompanying sulcalization (Lowman 1932: 278). In phonology and historical linguistics, sulcalization is the development of such a groove in a non-sulcal consonant
Proto-Algonquian language (3,272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Plains Algonquian, both of which are areal groupings. In the historical linguistics of North America, Proto-Algonquian is one of the best studied, most thoroughly
Ejective consonant (2,727 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
egressive airstream. In the phonology of a particular language, ejectives may contrast with aspirated, voiced and tenuis consonants. Some languages have glottalized
Proto-Tai language (2,577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistics, Cornell University. Pike, Kenneth Lee; Pike, Evelyn G. Comparative Kadai: Linguistic Studies Beyond Tai. Summer Institute of Linguistics
Passive voice (2,692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state changed. This contrasts with active voice, in which the subject has the agent role. For example
Collocation (1,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a series of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, a collocation
Syllable (5,415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
English words with one syllable Minor syllable Mora (linguistics) Phonology Pitch accent Stress (linguistics) Syllabary writing system Syllabic consonant Syllabification
Gradualism (1,221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
delivered August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In linguistics, language change is seen as gradual, the product of chain reactions and
Spoken language (473 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
spoken language and written language is complex. Within the fields of linguistics, the current consensus is that speech is an innate human capability,
Zellig Harris (7,201 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
phonemic contrast cannot be derived from distributional analysis of phonetic notations but rather that the fundamental data of linguistics are speakers'
Mother Tongue (journal) (84 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Problems and Language Planning Mikroglottika Contrastive linguistics Languages in Contrast Generative linguistics Linguistic Inquiry Linguistic typology Linguistic
Pitjantjatjara dialect (1,591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
brackets: Pitjantjatjara has three vowels: Pitjantjatjara vowels have a length contrast, indicated by writing them doubled. A colon ⟨:⟩ used to be sometimes used
Maledicta (498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problems and Language Planning Mikroglottika Contrastive linguistics Languages in Contrast Generative linguistics Linguistic Inquiry Linguistic typology Linguistic
Value (semiotics) (1,217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, for example, the content of a sign in linguistics is ultimately determined and delimited not by its internal content, but
Western Pantar language (979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Attenborough, Jack Golson & Robin Hide, 15-66. (Pacific Linguistics PL 572). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Donohue, Mark & Antoinette Schapper. 2007. Towards
Gradualism (1,221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
delivered August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In linguistics, language change is seen as gradual, the product of chain reactions and
System (journal) (366 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
journal covering the applications of educational technology and applied linguistics to problems of foreign language teaching and learning. It was established
Anaphora (linguistics) (2,404 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, anaphora (/əˈnæfərə/) is the use of an expression whose interpretation depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent). In
Zellig Harris (7,201 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
phonemic contrast cannot be derived from distributional analysis of phonetic notations but rather that the fundamental data of linguistics are speakers'
Sepik languages (1,032 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Glossematics (1,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
meaning and form. This is in contrast to a contemporary American tendency of placing semantics outside the core of linguistics. Hjelmslev was also influenced
Proto-human language (2,426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The concept is speculative and not amenable to analysis in historical linguistics. It presupposes a monogenetic origin of language, i.e. the derivation
Accidental gap (1,140 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics an accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential
French language in Cambodia (710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Cambodia meant that by the 1960s, French began to decline in Cambodia in contrast to being a government language in South Vietnam and Laos. In the mid-1970s
Language Testing (179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
ranking it 11th out of 194 journals in the category "Linguistics". List of applied linguistics journals "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property
Sociolinguistics (4,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
language codes from Bernstein contrast with famous linguist Noam Chomsky's ideas. Chomsky, deemed the "father of modern linguistics", argues that there is a
Nomenclature (3,968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
embedded in different languages, connects nomenclature to theoretical linguistics, while the way humans mentally structure the world in relation to word
Distributional–relational database (440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
core semantic associations can be automatically captured from corpora, in contrast to the definition of manually curated ontologies and rule knowledge bases
Voice (phonetics) (1,376 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
a fortis and lenis contrast. There is a hypothesis that the contrast between fortis and lenis consonants is related to the contrast between voiceless and
Diphthong (6,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The authors contrast ⟨oi⟩ from ⟨o͜i⟩ from ⟨oᶤ⟩. Bussmann, Hadumod (2006). "Diphthong". Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. Translated by
William Croft (linguist) (248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
William Croft (born November 13, 1956) is an American professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was
Sign language (13,875 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the Wayback Machine, Studies in linguistics: Occasional papers (No. 8). Buffalo: Dept. of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Buffalo. Bross, Fabian
Vowel length (3,555 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration. In some languages vowel length
Journal of Second Language Writing (183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Language Writing is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the fields of linguistics and language education. Its scope encompasses all aspects of second and
Be (497 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
English, an English dialect British English, abbr. BE, usually used in contrast to AE (American English) To be, the English copular verb Be (Beady Eye
The Modern Language Journal (280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics, and foreign language education in the United States is available on
Literae humaniores (1,633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
universities. The Latin name means literally "more human literature" and was in contrast to the other main field of study when the university began, i.e. res divinae
Stratum (linguistics) (2,944 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for "layer") or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through
Cohesion (linguistics) (621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
time". This is lexical cohesion. Coherence (linguistics) M.A.K. Halliday Systemic functional linguistics Halliday, M.A.K; and Ruqayia Hasan (1976): Cohesion
Semiotics (10,860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. Unlike linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. Semiotics includes
Nasal vowel (1,346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ () or Amoy [ɛ̃]. By contrast, oral vowels are produced without nasalization. This precedes [œ̃]. Nasalized
Khmu language (916 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of Thailand. Papers in South-East Asian linguistics, no. 10. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian
Telefol language (686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and ⟨o⟩ represent both their single and long vowels, since they rarely contrast. /b/ is written ⟨p⟩ pre-consonantally and word-finally. Single /k/ is written
Conversational scoreboard (312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics and philosophy of language, the conversational scoreboard is a tuple which represents the discourse context at a given point in a conversation
Orthographic transcription (873 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the examples shown in Hayes's book see Fromkin, Victoria (2000); Linguistics: an introduction to linguistic theory; Wiley-Blackwell; ISBN 0631197117
Contrast set (299 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A contrast set is a bounded collection of items, each of which could fill the same slot in a given schema, syntactic structure, or other linguistic environment
Language (journal) (352 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
America since 1925. It covers all aspects of linguistics, focusing on the area of theoretical linguistics. Its current editor-in-chief is Andries Coetzee
Loanword (3,135 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
existing words or word-forming roots of the recipient language. Loanwords, in contrast, are not translated. Examples of loanwords in the English language include
Sentence clause structure (1,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
for "a very long sentence, especially one lacking order or coherence". Linguistics portal Comma splice Huddleston, Rodney (1984). Introduction to the Grammar
Well-formedness (640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, well-formedness is the quality of a clause, word, or other linguistic element that conforms to the grammar of the language of which it
Thematic equative (354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(1967/8) Notes on transitivity and theme in English 1–3, Journal of Linguistics, 3.1, 3.2 and 4.2:3–4 Halliday MAK, revised by Matthiesson CM (2004)
Pazeh language (1,788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Interdisciplinary Studies in Chinese Linguistics and Beyond. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 50. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. pp. 1133–1147
Linguistic Inquiry (62 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistic Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal in generative linguistics published by the MIT Press since 1970. Ever since its foundation, it
Idiom (2,650 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
signifying a successful performance, that is wished for by the idiom. In linguistics, idioms are usually presumed to be figures of speech contradicting the
Northeast Caucasian languages (3,040 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Vainakh-Daghestani, or sometimes Caspian languages (from the Caspian Sea, in contrast to Pontic languages for the Northwest Caucasian languages), is a family
Syncope (phonology) (611 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
was adjacent to a consonant cluster or a final consonant. Apheresis (linguistics) Apocope Clipping (morphology) Clipping (phonetics) Deletion (phonology)
Aryan (9,964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (*an-arya). In Ancient India
Mandarin Chinese (8,685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguists may not recognize that the variants they speak are classified in linguistics as members of "Mandarin" (or so-called "Northern dialects") in a broader
Comprehension approach (935 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
emphasizes understanding of language rather than speaking it. This is in contrast to the better-known communicative approach, under which learning is thought
Context-free grammar (6,703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
generate the same language?) is undecidable. Context-free grammars arise in linguistics where they are used to describe the structure of sentences and words
Aspirated consonant (2,251 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(including Indian ones) and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive. In dialects with aspiration, to feel or see the difference between aspirated
Engenni language (265 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Language. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 60. 60. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. "WALS Online - Language Engenni"
Analogy (6,494 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
resemblance, and similarity are closely related to analogy. In cognitive linguistics, the notion of conceptual metaphor may be equivalent to that of analogy
Context-free grammar (6,703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
generate the same language?) is undecidable. Context-free grammars arise in linguistics where they are used to describe the structure of sentences and words
Pazeh language (1,788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Interdisciplinary Studies in Chinese Linguistics and Beyond. Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 50. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica. pp. 1133–1147
Linguistic universal (2,234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
language is spoken, it has consonants and vowels. Research in this area of linguistics is closely tied to the study of linguistic typology, and intends to reveal
Journal of Language Relationship (174 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
United States. It focuses on historical linguistics, with many articles relating to long-range comparative linguistics. In 1998, Kirill Babaev [ru] founded
Control (linguistics) (2,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, control is a construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by some expression in context. Stereotypical
Conversation analysis (4,765 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
thus making CA compatible with feminist studies. In contrast to the use of introspection in linguistics, conversation analysis studies naturally-occurring
Kiowa phonology (1,439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
underlying two-way length contrast (short vs. long). However, a number of phonological issues restrict the length contrast. (See the syllable and phonotactics
English language (22,941 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Phrases". In Aarts, Bas; McMahon, April (eds.). The Handbook of English Linguistics. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781405164252. Abercrombie, D.; Daniels
Pronoun (3,311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed PRO) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Pronouns have traditionally
Vietic languages (3,412 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistics Society. 15 (3): 41–63. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5778105. ISSN 1836-6821. [Papers from the 30th Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Cratylism (259 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Quine Putnam Lewis Searle Watzlawick Theories Causal theory of reference Contrast theory of meaning Contrastivism Conventionalism Cratylism Deconstruction
Circumfix (769 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
one placed at the start of a word, and the other at the end. Circumfixes contrast with prefixes, attached to the beginnings of words; suffixes, attached
Yes–no question (3,101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a yes–no question, also known as a binary question, a polar question, or a general question, is a question whose expected answer is one
Intensifier (1,229 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, an intensifier (abbreviated INT) is a lexical category (but not a traditional part of speech) for a modifier that makes no contribution
Spanish phonology (11,060 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2005). "Quasi-phonemic contrasts in Spanish". WCCFL 23: Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Literal and figurative language (1,716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
analysis, such terms are still used; but within the fields of cognition and linguistics, the basis for identifying such a distinction is no longer used. Figurative
Writing Systems Research (72 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
abstracted by SCOPUS. The journal ceased publication in 2019. List of applied linguistics journals "Writing Systems Research". "Writing Systems Research". Taylor
Orthographic transcription (873 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the examples shown in Hayes's book see Fromkin, Victoria (2000); Linguistics: an introduction to linguistic theory; Wiley-Blackwell; ISBN 0631197117
ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics (155 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Journal of Applied Linguistics is an peer-reviewed academic journal of linguistics. It is published by the Department of Linguistics (KU Leuven), the Department
Logistic function (6,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematical psychology, probability, sociology, political science, linguistics, statistics, and artificial neural networks. A generalization of the
Gemination (4,582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Mora-Based Temporal Adjustments in Japanese" (en). Colorado Research in Linguistics. 13. University of Colorado Boulder. p2 line 29. doi:10.25810/2ddh-9161
Minoritized language (1,346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
there is a "Western language ideology" which applies social Darwinism to linguistics. This ideology allegedly idealizes monolingualism, denies the benefits
Broken plural (1,128 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a broken plural (or internal plural) is an irregular plural form of a noun or adjective found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic
Apophony (2,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation
Endonym and exonym (5,201 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
feature. According to James Matisoff, who introduced the term autonym into linguistics, exonyms can also arise from the "egocentric" tendency of in-groups to
Nominal group (functional grammar) (2,439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
over there". Noun phrase Systemic functional linguistics David Crystal, 2008. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th edition, p 328: nominal group
Intension (1,008 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
several fields of study that treat the use of signs—for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language—an
Gardiner's sign list (808 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
forms to aid with the reading of hieroglyphs in running blocks of text. In contrast, for example, the Budge Reference has about 1,000 hieroglyphs listed in
Deixis (3,410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, deixis (/ˈdaɪksɪs/, /ˈdeɪksɪs/) is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context, e.g
Language Technologies Institute (538 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
backgrounds or with limited research experience in language technologies. In contrast, the Master of Science in Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS), Master
Taiwanese Mandarin (11,511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
other varieties of Chinese languages, primarily Hakka and Hokkien. By contrast, Taiwanese indigenous peoples speak unrelated Austronesian languages. Japan
Benjamin Lee Whorf (9,112 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
initially pursued chemical engineering but developed an interest in linguistics, particularly Biblical Hebrew and indigenous Mesoamerican languages.
Korean phonology (5,409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
consonant phonemes. For each plosive and affricate, there is a three-way contrast between unvoiced segments, which are distinguished as plain, tense, and
Lingua (journal) (408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering general linguistics that was established in 1949. It is published
Algonquian languages (1,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1
Eurasiatic languages (3,486 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
with multiple constructions for a given family). In contrast to traditional comparative linguistics, the researchers did not attempt to "prove" any given
Psycholinguistics (4,392 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Modern research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, and information science to study how the mind-brain processes language
Japanese pitch accent (5,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sakuma, Kanae (1919). 国語の発音とアクセント. Tokyo: 同文館. The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. 2002. Tamaoka, K.; Saito, N.; Kiyama, S.; Timmer, K
Comparative method (7,004 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or
Puquina language (968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Puquina and Leko languages - Advances in Native South American Historical Linguistics". 52ica.etnolinguistica.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26
Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain (121 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguistique de Louvain is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering linguistics published by Peeters on behalf of the Université catholique de Louvain
Conventionalism (1,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bhaṭṭa.[citation needed] It has been the standard position of modern linguistics since Ferdinand de Saussure's l'arbitraire du signe, but there have always
Implicature (5,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In pragmatics, a subdiscipline of linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally
Yugambeh language (1,539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Including Neighbouring Dialects, compiled by Margaret Sharpe, Pacific Linguistics: Australian National University, 1998. hdl:1885/145959 doi:10.15144/PL-C139
Epithets in Homer (1,459 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
अक्षितम् / śrávo ákṣitam. These two phrases were, in terms of historical linguistics, equivalent in phonology, accentuation, and quantity (syllable length)
Implicature (5,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In pragmatics, a subdiscipline of linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally
Language Learning (journal) (282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
factor of 1.218, ranking it 26th out of 161 journals in the category "Linguistics" and 42nd out of 203 journals in the category "Education & Educational
List of linguistics journals (182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguistics journals. Annual Review of Linguistics Glossa Journal of Linguistics Language Lingua Linguistic Inquiry Linguistic Typology Linguistics Natural
Intonation (linguistics) (4,908 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal
Yugambeh language (1,539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Including Neighbouring Dialects, compiled by Margaret Sharpe, Pacific Linguistics: Australian National University, 1998. hdl:1885/145959 doi:10.15144/PL-C139
Stochastic (3,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
seemingly random changes in financial markets as well as in medicine, linguistics, music, media, colour theory, botany, manufacturing, and geomorphology
Possible world (1,966 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
worlds are widely used as a formal device in logic, philosophy, and linguistics in order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic. Their
Glottalic theory (5,744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 14-16,1998: Special Session on Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations, Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society
Saho–Afar languages (227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. "Saho-Afar languages". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original
Part of speech (3,600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
lexical categories is found from the earliest moments in the history of linguistics. In the Nirukta, written in the 6th or 5th century BCE, the Sanskrit
Iduna language (418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
language consists of 14 consonant phonemes. Voiced plosives generally contrast with their unvoiced counterparts, except for the bilabial series, where
Austronesian languages (7,236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to as focus (not to be confused with the usual sense of that term in linguistics). Furthermore, the choice of voice is influenced by the definiteness
Concept (4,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cognition. As such, concepts are studied within such disciplines as linguistics, psychology, and philosophy, and these disciplines are interested in
Studies in Language (83 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in Language is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in linguistics as viewed from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives
Past tense (2,781 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
such as Ewe, distinguish only between future and non-future. In complete contrast, Bantu languages such as Zulu have not only a past tense, but also a less
Journal of Linguistics (146 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Journal of Linguistics is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering all branches of theoretical linguistics and the official publication
Ghil'ad Zuckermann (2,700 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann
Aphasiology (journal) (15 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Problems and Language Planning Mikroglottika Contrastive linguistics Languages in Contrast Generative linguistics Linguistic Inquiry Linguistic typology Linguistic
Symbiosism (667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
on his Seventieth Birthday (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series W-4). Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia van Driem, George. 2005. The language
Incomplete lineage sorting (2,141 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
differ depending on the selected genes used for assessment. This is in contrast to complete lineage sorting, where the tree produced by the gene is the
Southern Tiwa language (680 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
International Journal of American Linguistics, 50 (3), 292-311. Brandt, Elizabeth. (1970). Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico: A linguistics and ethnolinguistic investigation
Urim language (193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Cant (language) (2,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
There are two main schools of thought on the origin of the word cant: In linguistics, the derivation is normally seen to be from the Irish word caint (older
Active–stative alignment (2,471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2009). "Alignment and Word Order in Old Japanese". Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 18 (2): 101–144. doi:10.1007/s10831-009-9043-2. JSTOR 40345246. S2CID 121032669
Japanese sound symbolism (992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
language has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones. Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese
Linguistic relativity (11,746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Committee on Linguistics. Slobin, Dan I. (1987). "Thinking for Speaking." Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Catena (linguistics) (3,566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, a catena (English pronunciation: /kəˈtiːnə/, plural catenas or catenae; from Latin for "chain") is a unit of syntax and morphology, closely
Lumpers and splitters (2,587 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
issue that continually comes up, though the consensus in contemporary linguistics is that there is no completely objective way to settle the question.
LGBT linguistics (7,521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
LGBT linguistics is the study of language as used by members of LGBT communities. Related or synonymous terms include lavender linguistics, advanced by
Clause (3,319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
it can constitute a complete sentence by itself. A dependent clause, by contrast, is reliant on the presence of an independent clause. A second major distinction
Akha language (1,618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the Alu Dialect of Akha". Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No.3. 3 (3). Pacific Linguistics, the Australian National University: 35–54. Lewis, Paul
Syntactic Structures (10,879 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. A short monograph of about a
Indigenous English in Canada (721 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
example, Plains Cree has fewer phonological contrasts than the English language, has no voicing contrast, and does not contain liquids or several fricatives
Empty string (671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
memory. In this way, there could be multiple empty strings in memory, in contrast with the formal theory definition, for which there is only one possible
Model-theoretic grammar (529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Model-theoretic grammars, also known as constraint-based grammars, contrast with generative grammars in the way they define sets of sentences: they state
Linguistics Vanguard (71 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistics Vanguard is a peer-reviewed academic journal of general linguistics that was established in 2015 and is published by De Gruyter. Its editors-in-chief
Formalism (linguistics) (2,619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, the term formalism is used in a variety of meanings which relate to formal linguistics in different ways. In common usage, it is merely
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic
Joseph Greenberg (3,915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"multilateral comparison", to emphasize its contrast with the bilateral comparisons recommended by linguistics textbooks. He believed that multilateral comparison
Japanese phonology (10,306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
General Linguistics, 2 (1) 93: 1–34, doi:10.5334/gjgl.355 Tsuchida, Ayako (2001), "Japanese vowel devoicing", Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 10 (3):
Semantic feature (621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
word is proposed to arise from contrasts and significant differences with other words. Semantic features enable linguistics to explain how words that share
Lombard language (2,674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
influence on modern Lombard is extremely vague and limited. That is in sharp contrast to the influence left by the Celts, who settled in Northern Italy and brought
Liberian English (1,438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
voiceless labio-velar fricative [ʍ] (in such words as whit and which in contrast to voiced [w] in wit and wish). Except in word-initial position, affricates
Ergative–absolutive alignment (4,497 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
alignment with certain pronouns. The ergative-absolutive alignment is in contrast to nominative–accusative alignment, which is observed in English and most
Ferdinand de Saussure (6,454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major
Linguistic Typology (148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problems and Language Planning Mikroglottika Contrastive linguistics Languages in Contrast Generative linguistics Linguistic Inquiry Linguistic typology Linguistic
Feminization of language (1,370 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, feminization refers to the process of re-classifying nouns and adjectives which as such refer to male beings, including occupational terms
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (1,390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
prominent only when the object is a pronoun. This word order is marked contrast to the dialect of Arabic spoken by hearing members of the community (SVO)
Semantic feature (621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
word is proposed to arise from contrasts and significant differences with other words. Semantic features enable linguistics to explain how words that share
Feminization of language (1,370 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, feminization refers to the process of re-classifying nouns and adjectives which as such refer to male beings, including occupational terms
Subordination (linguistics) (976 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, subordination (abbreviated variously SUBORD, SBRD, SUBR or SR) is a principle of the hierarchical organization of linguistic units. While
Liberian English (1,438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
voiceless labio-velar fricative [ʍ] (in such words as whit and which in contrast to voiced [w] in wit and wish). Except in word-initial position, affricates
Ferdinand de Saussure (6,454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major
Pochutec language (747 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
American Linguistics 49.2.196-203. Hasler, Juan. 1976. “La situación dialectológica del pochuteco", International Journal of American Linguistics 42. 3.
Phonology (journal) (243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
University Press, the only journal devoted exclusively to this subfield of linguistics. The current editors are Colin J. Ewen (Leiden University), Ellen Kaisse
Formosan languages (1,523 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
aboriginal languages of Taiwan have great significance in historical linguistics since, in all likelihood, Taiwan is the place of origin of the entire
Implosive consonant (1,692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
glottalic ejective consonants, implosives can be modified by phonation. Contrastive implosives are found in approximately 13% of the world's languages. In
Kiowa language (2,481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(1972). Kiowa and English pronouns: Contrastive morphosemantics. In L. M. Davis (Ed.), Studies in linguistics, in honor of Raven I. McDavid. University
Writing system (5,679 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Transliteration Transcription (linguistics) Writing Written language X-SAMPA Coulmas 2003, p. 35. David Crystal (2008), A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th
Skou language (256 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Demonstrative (2,580 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Suzhounese, on the other hand, has several demonstratives that form a two-way contrast, but also have 搿, which is neutral. Hungarian has two spatial demonstratives:
Uvular consonant (1,361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Method and the Case of Bai" (PDF). Language and Linguistics Monograph Series B. Frontiers in Linguistics III. Maddieson, Ian; Smith, Caroline L.; Bessell
Linguistic prescription (5,295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Prescriptive approaches to language are often contrasted with the descriptive approach, employed in academic linguistics, which observes and records how language
Determiner phrase (3,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a determiner phrase (DP) is a type of phrase headed by a determiner such as many. Controversially, many approaches, take a phrase like
TESOL Quarterly (1,058 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
factor of 2.056, ranking it 14th out of 182 journals in the category "Linguistics" and 34th out of 235 journals in the category "Education & Educational
First Language (journal) (175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
First Language contains papers from a range of disciplines such as linguistics, anthropology and neuroscience. First Language is abstracted and indexed
Epistemic modality (1,436 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
structures. Epistemic modality has been studied from many perspectives within linguistics and philosophy. It is one of the most studied phenomena in formal semantics
Mutual intelligibility (4,745 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily
Article (grammar) (3,589 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
was a bad decision. Indefinite noun phrases are widely studied within linguistics, in particular because of their ability to take exceptional scope. A
Journal of Voice (93 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problems and Language Planning Mikroglottika Contrastive linguistics Languages in Contrast Generative linguistics Linguistic Inquiry Linguistic typology Linguistic
TAST (205 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, TAST (always written as uppercase T plus uppercase AST in subscript) is an abbreviation for the time of assertion, a secondary temporal
Endophora (243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
refers to something mentioned elsewhere in the text, i.e. "Sally". By contrast, "She was lying on the beach," if it appeared by itself, contains an exophoric
Japhug language (888 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Prefix in Japhug rGyalrong and Related Problems] (PDF). Language and Linguistics / Yǔyán jì yǔyánxué (in Chinese). 8 (4): 883–912. Jacques, Guillaume
Iconicity (2,830 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign (linguistic
Turan (2,906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguists classify languages according to the method of comparative linguistics rather than using their typological features. According to Encyclopædia
Unergative verb (427 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Zwarts, Joost (1996–2001). "unergative verb". Lexicon of linguistics. Utrecht institute of Linguistics, OTS Utrecht University. Retrieved July 28, 2019. Note:
Glossa (journal) (369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering general linguistics. It was established in 2016. The
Presentative (linguistics) (709 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Matthews, P. H. (2014). "presentational". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967512-8. Porhiel, Sylvie (2012)
Psychological nativism (2,264 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth. This is in contrast to the "blank slate" or tabula rasa view, which states that the brain has
Athabaskan languages (4,396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and individual languages. Although the term Athabaskan is prevalent in linguistics and anthropology, there is an increasing trend among scholars to use
Change from above (241 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, change from above refers to conscious change to a language. That is, speakers are generally aware of the linguistic change and use it
Philosophy of language (8,526 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
influence has been mostly limited to computational linguistics, with little impact on general linguistics. The incompatibility with genetics and neuropsychology
Sound change (2,331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve
Vietnamese language (12,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2002, edited by Ratree Wayland et al. Canberra, Australia, 1–7. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (60 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal of general linguistics that was established in 2011 and is published by
Vocal range (1,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
singing voices into voice types. It is also a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech-language pathology, particularly in relation to
Afroasiatic languages (10,899 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The
Hakia (347 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"SemanticRank" algorithm, using ontological semantics, fuzzy logic, computational linguistics, and mathematics. In 2008, hakia added several sub-categories for search
Kulitan (768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
encode the script in Unicode by Anshuman Pandey, from the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley. There are also proposals to revive the script by teaching
Ewe language (1,962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pazzi (anthropology, lexicography), Felix K. Ameka (semantics, cognitive linguistics), Alan Stewart Duthie (semantics, phonetics), Hounkpati B. Capo (phonology
List of summer schools of linguistics (673 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of Linguistics (CreteLing) - Rethymno (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)  Poland: Summer Institute "Languages and Cultures in Contact / in Contrast" -
Tense confusion (252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
" Research in linguistics regards such sentences as instances of the sequence of tense phenomenon. There is, in fact, a meaning contrast between the following
Bulgarian dialects (1,033 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
classified as part of Bulgarian in the older literature. Presently, Bulgarian linguistics continue to treat it as such. Since the second half of the 20th century
Michael Halliday (3,233 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name
Reappropriation (3,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously
Michael Halliday (3,233 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language. His grammatical descriptions go by the name
Stephen Neale (855 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the intersection of philosophy and linguistics. Neale is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics and holder of the John H. Kornblith
Mīmāṃsā (5,925 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
that Vedānta disagreed with. While their deep analysis of language and linguistics influenced other schools of Hinduism, their views were not shared by
Bahnaric languages (945 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Through Language: Papers in Honour of Malcolm Ross. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Sidwell, Paul. 2010. "Cua (Kor) historical phonology and classification
Voiced uvular tap and flap (564 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
history of the vowels of seventeen northern Vanuatu languages", Oceanic Linguistics, 44 (2): 443–504, doi:10.1353/ol.2005.0034, S2CID 131668754 Kinkade,
Free variation (745 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, free variation is the phenomenon of two (or more) sounds or forms appearing
Lexis (linguistics) (2,393 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, the term lexis (from Ancient Greek: λέξις 'word') designates the complete set of all possible words in a language, or a particular subset
Theta role (2,147 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Morphosyntactic alignment Syntax‐semantics interface Thematic relations Valency (linguistics) "Theta Roles". www.sfu.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-20. Baker, Mark (1988)
Modern Greek phonology (1,756 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the 17th International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied Linguistics. Vol. 1. Thessaloniki: Department
Language Teaching Research (339 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
journals in the category "Linguistics", its 5-year impact is 4.815, ranking it 12 out of 194 in the category "Linguistics" and 73 out of 267 journals
Morphophonology (1,695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology) is the branch of linguistics that studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or
Oto-Manguean languages (4,425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Middle American Comparative Linguistics. Publications in Linguistics, Publication Number 55. Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 53–108. Sapir, Edward
Journal of Child Language (186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theories which may account for it. This includes various aspects of linguistics such as phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics
Uniformitarianism (4,142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
strict gradualism. Coined by William Whewell, it was originally proposed in contrast to catastrophism by British naturalists in the late 18th century, starting
Charles Reiss (859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(/riːs/ REESS) is an American linguistics professor teaching at Concordia University in Montreal. His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of
Macro-Gunwinyguan languages (749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in their verbal inflections. Many of the languages have a fortis–lenis contrast in plosive consonants. Lenis/short plosives have weak contact and intermittent
Adyghe phonology (955 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Languages of the Caucasus: University of California, Berkeley Linguistics. pp. 3–17.{{cite book}}:
Mixed language (4,561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
code-switching, substrata, or lexical borrowing. Other terms used in linguistics for the concept of a mixed language include hybrid language, contact
Enggano language (3,455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
From the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (PDF). Pacific Linguistics, Series C. Vol. 94. Canberra: Research School of Pacific
Catherine Browman (3,928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
an American linguist and speech scientist. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1978. Browman
Pro-drop language (5,855 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
case for English, French, German, and Emilian dialect, among others. In contrast, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Slavic languages, Finno-Ugric languages, Italian
Romanization of Arabic (2,943 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
modification to DIN 31635. EALL, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (edited by Kees Versteegh, Brill, 2006–2009). Spanish romanization, identical
Complementizer (3,208 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer or complementiser (glossing abbreviation: comp) is a functional category (part of speech)
Comanche language (3,770 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics Publication 92. Dallas, Texas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and
Multilingua (266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Interlanguage Communication is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal in linguistics, specializing in the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, language learning
Ngan'gi language (1,325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pacific Linguistics: Canberra, 2002(b). Reid, N.J. "Languages of the World: Ngan'gityemerri". The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics II. Oxford:
Goidelic substrate hypothesis (947 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
indicating large-scale Indo-European migration to Britain about that time. In contrast, other scholars argue for a much later date of arrival of Goidelic languages
Mayan languages (9,280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jessica; Henderson, Robert (2015). "Introduction to Mayan Linguistics" (PDF). Language and Linguistics Compass. Bolles, David (2003) [1997]. "Combined Dictionary–Concordance
Wichita language (4,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder. (retrieved 17 July 2010) Taylor 1963. Rood 1975 Garvin 1950 http ||//www.colorado.edu/linguistics
Discontinuity (linguistics) (2,337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, a discontinuity occurs when a given word or phrase is separated from another word or phrase that it modifies in such a manner that a direct
Umlaut (diacritic) (2,075 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
the same Unicode code point. The word trema (French: tréma), used in linguistics and also classical scholarship, describes the form of both the umlaut
Salishan languages (3,428 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
American Linguistics 71.1, January 2005. Davis, Henry. and Matthewson, Lisa. (2009). Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics. Language and Linguistics Compass
Central Alaskan Yupʼik (6,410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Eskimo". International Journal of American Linguistics. 56 (2). International Journal of American Linguistics: The University of Chicago Press: 264–286
Dependency grammar (4,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Lucien Tesnière. Tesnière was a Frenchman, a polyglot, and a professor of linguistics at the universities in Strasbourg and Montpellier. His major work Éléments
Dialect continuum (5,486 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
[Serbo-Croatian Between Linguistics and Politics: With a Bibliography of the Post-Yugoslav Language Dispute]. Lincom Studies in Slavic Linguistics; vol 34 (in German)
Morphosyntactic alignment (2,334 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject
Hachijō language (3,666 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
by John Kupchik and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), respectively, within the Japonic family as follows: Proto-Japonic
Iaai language (885 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Oceanic languages, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Tryon, Darrell T. Iai grammar. B-8, xii + 137 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University
Ruqaiya Hasan (2,368 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
completed her PhD in linguistics, also at the University of Edinburgh. The title of her thesis was 'A Linguistic Study of Contrasting Features in the Style
Minimalist program (9,603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, the minimalist program is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, starting with
Vowel shift (1,306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
South also indicate undeniable pronunciation changes in the region. In contrast to the changes in the North, however, the Southern Cities Vowel Shift is
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (151 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the Sino-Tibetan languages and other mainland
Functional load (836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics and especially phonology, functional load, or phonemic load, is the collection
Charles F. Hockett (3,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics. He represents the post-Bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred
Subcategorization (1,400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, subcategorization denotes the ability/necessity for lexical items (usually verbs) to require/allow the presence and types of the syntactic
Palatalization (phonetics) (1,604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
and Finnic languages, palatalized consonants contrast with plain consonants, but in Irish they contrast with velarized consonants. Russian нос /nos/ "nose"
Collateral adjective (878 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
out of print, the term has become rare. A synonym sometimes seen in linguistics is a suppletive (denominal) adjective, though this is a liberal and arguably
Metaphor (5,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
terms ground and figure to denote the tenor and the vehicle. Cognitive linguistics uses the terms target and source, respectively. Psychologist Julian Jaynes
Thompson language (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
categories are not prescriptive of lexical categories. Work in Functional linguistics suggests that other factors beyond morphological evidence code lexical
Leonard Bloomfield (3,680 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered
Vowel shift (1,306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
South also indicate undeniable pronunciation changes in the region. In contrast to the changes in the North, however, the Southern Cities Vowel Shift is
General American English (5,130 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
playing this file? See media help. General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm), is the umbrella
Cratylus (dialogue) (2,431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
name of Hades. This etymology, through the lens of modern comparative linguistics, is unknown, but has carried a folk etymology since antiquity as meaning
Wagiman language (4,330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Region of the Northern Territory. The Wagiman language is notable within linguistics for its complex system of verbal morphology, which remains under-investigated
Linguistic competence (3,199 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, linguistic competence is the system of unconscious knowledge that one knows when they know a language. It is distinguished from linguistic
Tanacross language (3,377 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Krauss, Michael E. 1973. Na-Dene. Linguistics in North America, ed. by T.A. Sebeok, 903-78. (Current Trends in Linguistics 10). The Hague: Mouton. McKennan
Franz Boas (18,561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
ethnology, the study of cultural variation of customs, and descriptive linguistics, the study of unwritten indigenous languages, Boas created the four-field
Boon language (280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
'to breathe' (contrast Somali sambab 'lung') booGo 'jaw' ~ Oromo bookho (contrast Somali daan) dhinne 'rib' ~ Oromo čʼinnač (contrast Somali feer) helliiso
Cocopah language (693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
James M. (1970). "Cocopa Baby Talk". International Journal of American Linguistics. 36: 9–13. doi:10.1086/465083. S2CID 144118246. Crawford, James M. (1978)
BERT (language model) (2,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics: 284–294. arXiv:1805.04623
Yele language (1,564 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the tongue, such as a simultaneous p and k. However, Yele is known to contrast other doubly articulated positions: besides labial–velar, it has two distinct
Elizabeth Cowper (445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Elizabeth Cowper (born 1952) is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1976. She
Kaluli language (995 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Institute of Linguistics Papua New Guinea. Schieffelin, Bambi and Steven Feld. 1998. Bosavi-English-Tok-Pisin Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Fiske
Yolmo language (10,571 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Thomas; Hill, Nathan W. (eds.). Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area. De Gruyter. pp. 103–129.
Gregg shorthand (2,466 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gregg shorthand has a unique symbol for the "th" sound (/θ/ and /ð/), in contrast to Duployan systems, which use a dotted "t," resulting in slower writing
Aiton language (920 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Morey, Stephen. "Tonal change in the Tai languages of Northeast India." Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 28.2 (2005): 139-202. Diller, A. (1992). Tai
Construction grammar (4,801 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned pairings of linguistic patterns
Hellenic languages (1,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
considered a separate language for ethnic and cultural reasons. Greek linguistics traditionally treats all of these as dialects of a single language. Hellenic
Linguistic determinism (4,610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
determinism has largely been discredited by studies and abandoned within linguistics, cognitive science, and related fields. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis branches
Wyandot language (1,494 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
classes in the Wendat language at its village school in Wendake. Although linguistics have equated with or seen as a dialect of the Iroquoian Wendat (Huron)
Cartesian linguistics (1,886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The term Cartesian linguistics was coined by Noam Chomsky in his book Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought (1966). The
Veridicality (1,211 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, veridicality (from Latin "truthfully said") is a semantic or grammatical assertion of the truth of an utterance. Merriam-Webster defines
Bert Vaux (720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 2003-2006 Asst. and Assoc. Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University, 1994-2003
Kaure language (500 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Institute of Linguistics. Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New
Aorist (2,750 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 3-11-017433-2, pp. 173–176. Teffeteller (2006). "Ancient Greek". Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed
Endocentric and exocentric (1,889 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In theoretical linguistics, a distinction is made between endocentric and exocentric constructions. A grammatical construction (for instance, a phrase
Loaded language (943 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Thought-terminating cliché Truth-bearer Type–token distinction Variation (linguistics) Weston 2000, p. 6. Murray & Kujundzic 2005, p. 90. Lavender, Larry (1996)
Siouan languages (1,287 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
American Linguistics. 16 (3): 113–121. doi:10.1086/464075. S2CID 197656511. Some Siouan languages have however developed a phonemic contrast between the
Interactional linguistics (1,353 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Interactional linguistics (IL) is an interdisciplinary approach to grammar and interaction in the field of linguistics, that applies the methods of Conversation
Iconology (2,014 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
emerging discipline of iconology ... must ultimately do for the image what linguistics has done for the word." However, Michael Camille is of the opinion that
Verb phrase (1,312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a verb phrase (VP) is a syntactic unit composed of a verb and its arguments except the subject of an independent clause or coordinate
Split ergativity (1,606 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
verbs are framed by a person marking prefix (called "set A" in Mayan linguistics) that expresses the subject, and a suffix that expresses the object (=
Self-organization (6,741 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
sees self-replication as a key step in nano and universal assembly. By contrast, the four concurrently connected galvanometers of W. Ross Ashby's Homeostat
German Reference Corpus (537 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
corpus suitable for their specific research questions. Text corpus Corpus linguistics American National Corpus (ANC) Bank of English (BoE) British National
Maithili language (3,998 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
July 2018. Sah, K. K. (2013). "Some perspectives on Maithili". Nepalese Linguistics (28): 179–188. Language Commission (6 September 2021). सरकारी कामकाजको
Physis (2,216 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Christian theology and Western philosophy. In pre-Socratic usage, physis was contrasted with νόμος, nomos, "law, human convention". Another opposition, particularly
Non-configurational language (2,594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(Lexicon of Linguistics) Configurational language (Lexicon of Linguistics) Scrambling (Lexicon of Linguistics) Cartoon Theories of Linguistics: Non-Configurational
Basic science (psychology) (1,212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
science provides a foundation for applied psychology. Applied psychology, by contrast, involves the application of psychological principles and theories yielded
Sawi language (Dardic) (785 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Bashir, Elena L. (eds.). The languages and linguistics of South Asia: a comprehensive guide. World of Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 264–300
Blend word (5,864 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a blend—sometimes known, perhaps more narrowly, as a blend word, lexical blend, portmanteau (/pɔːrtˈmæntoʊ/ port-MAN-toh or /ˌpɔːr(t)mænˈtoʊ/
Jru' language (736 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
sesquisyllabic structure. The register contrast seen in other Mon-Khmer languages has not been found in Jru' and, in contrast to the surrounding prestige language
Ngalakgan language (361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Merlan, Francesca (1983). Ngalakan grammar, texts and vocabulary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Ngalakan basic lexicon
Patricia Keating (377 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Bruce Hayes - personal page". linguistics.ucla.edu. Keating, Patricia Ann (1980). A Phonetic Study of a Voicing Contrast in Polish (PDF) (Thesis). Brown
Tungusic languages (4,943 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Malchukov and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), Recent advances in Tungusic linguistics (Turcologica 89). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012. vi + 277 pages, ISBN
Centum and satem languages (5,862 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics (2nd ed.). Chichester, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Kortlandt, Frederik (1993). "General Linguistics & Indo-European
Yavapai language (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Concerning Yavapai-Apache Bilingualism". International Journal of American Linguistics. 29 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1086/464706. S2CID 144439528. Shaterian, Alan (1983)
Cypriot Greek (4,129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
geminate stops? (PDF). Proceedings of 6th International Conference of Greek Linguistics. Rethymno, Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2018
Interactional linguistics (1,353 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Interactional linguistics (IL) is an interdisciplinary approach to grammar and interaction in the field of linguistics, that applies the methods of Conversation
Gallo-Italic languages (2,248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
another, but the following are the most important characteristics, as contrasted with Italian: Most Gallo-Italic languages have lost all unstressed final
Swiss German (6,799 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Allen County, Indiana: Multilingualism and Convergence". Anthropological Linguistics. 36 (1). Spring: 69–91. JSTOR 30028275. Fleischer & Schmid (2006:245)
Nahuatl (12,808 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sketches. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 56. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at
Karuk language (2,192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Journal of American Linguistics. 59 (1): 64–81. doi:10.1086/466185. JSTOR 1265470. S2CID 144335898. "Ararahih'urípih". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved
Vagueness (3,830 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics and philosophy, a vague predicate is one which gives rise to borderline cases. For example, the English adjective "tall" is vague since
Scandinavian studies (783 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
related field in Scandinavia would be the more narrow discipline of Nordic linguistics, which covers North Germanic languages. A major focus of Scandinavian
Shirk (Islam) (2,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
to accepting other divinities or powers alongside God as associates. In contrast, Islam teaches God does not share divine attributes with anyone, as it
Phyletic gradualism (481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
followed by a long period of stasis or non-change. These models both contrast with variable-speed evolution ("variable speedism"), which maintains that
Batak Karo language (769 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Working Papers in Linguistics. 11 (7): 161–188. Woollams, Geoff (1996). A Grammar of Karo Batak, Sumatra (PDF). Pacific Linguistics Series C - No. 130
Sievers's law (2,862 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
combining characters and Latin characters. Sievers's law in Indo-European linguistics accounts for the pronunciation of a consonant cluster with a glide (*w
Gerund (4,912 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, a gerund (/ˈdʒɛrənd/ abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it
Ruki sound law (1,400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Proto-Indo-Iranian". Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. de Gruyter. p. 1881. F. B. J. Kuiper. 1976. "Old East Iranian dialects
Mian language (538 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Adjective phrase (1,835 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
an adjective. Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology defines the adjective phrase in a similar way, e.g. Kesner
Sanskrit (32,164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
analysis from that of modern linguistics, Pāṇini's work has been found valuable and the most advanced analysis of linguistics until the twentieth century
Scanian dialect (3,309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
pointed out by the Norwegian scholar Lars S. Vikør, professor, Nordic and Linguistics Studies, University of Oslo, in the 2001 book Language and Nationalism
Categorization (6,903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
abilities, and it is studied particularly by psychology and cognitive linguistics. Categorization is sometimes considered synonymous with classification
Shtokavian (7,152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Chakavian and Kajkavian idioms. According to research of historical linguistics, Old-Shtokavian was well established by the mid-15th century. In this
Phonation (2,725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
if the pressure drop across the larynx is not sufficiently large. In linguistics, a phone is called voiceless if there is no phonation during its occurrence
Taos phonology (4,833 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
six vowels with three contrastive vowel heights and two degrees of vowel backness. Five of the vowels have an oral-nasal contrast, which persists even
Merrill Swain (1,649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
competence. Swain was the president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in 1998. She received her PhD in psychology at the University of California
Analogical change (1,167 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the language system on the basis of analogy or perceived similarity. In contrast to regular sound change, analogy is driven by idiosyncratic cognitive factors
Kristang language (5,918 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese) (PDF). Pacific Linguistics Series B - No. 95. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/pl-b95. hdl:1885/145643. ISBN 0-85883-375-1
Palatalization (sound change) (2,940 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. p. 35. Bynon, Theodora. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-521-21582-X (hardback) or
Forensic data analysis (396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
underlying databases is referred to as structured data. Unstructured data in contrast is taken from communication and office applications or from mobile devices
Backchannel (linguistics) (1,995 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In linguistics, a backchanneling during a conversation occurs when one participant is speaking and another participant interjects responses to the speaker
Conceptual metaphor (4,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another
Split infinitive (6,412 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
traditionally called the "full infinitive", but is more commonly known in modern linguistics as the to-infinitive (e.g. to go). In the history of English language
Coptic language (7,676 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic", Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective, eds., Eitan Grossman, Martin Haspelmath &
Social semiotics (1,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theorist, Michael Halliday, introduced the term ‘social semiotics’ into linguistics, when he used the phrase in the title of his book, Language as Social
Baluan-Pam language (2,718 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of Loniu, Papua New Guinea (PDF). Series C - 103. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/pl-c103. ISBN 0-85883-410-3. Schokkin, Dineke (2014). A
Manang language (2,493 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Papers in South East Asian Linguistics: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayas. 14:1-72. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Nagano, Yasuhoshi (1984). A
Proto-Austroasiatic language (2,610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society: Papers from the 30th Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2021). 15 (3): 95–111
Catalan phonology (5,589 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Phonology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, vol. 3, Routledge, pp. 574–587, ISBN 0415203473 Padgett, Jaye (2009). "Systemic Contrast and Catalan Rhotics". The
Positive (460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
potential Affirmative (linguistics), a property of a non-negated expression (the opposite of negative) Positive (linguistics), the form of an adjective
Tsilhqotʼin language (1,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rice, Keren, eds. (1989). Athapaskan Linguistics: Current Perspectives on a Language Family. Trends in Linguistics. Vol. 15. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter
Foreign language (3,680 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2006). An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. Falk, Yehuda N. (1978). Linguistics and Language: A Survey of Basic Concepts
Hortative (716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In linguistics, hortative modalities (/ˈhɔːrtətɪv/ ; abbreviated HORT) are verbal expressions used by the speaker to encourage or discourage an action
Albanian language (16,998 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bentley, Delia (eds.). Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected papers. 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Vol. 1 – General issues and non-Germanic
Vowel (7,108 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Cambridge University Press, p. 269. Crystal, David (2005) A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics (Fifth Edition), Maldern, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, p. 494. Ladefoged
Pronoun avoidance (692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
pronouns are used contextually to convey formality or familiarity. In contrast, languages with pronoun avoidance tend to feature complex systems of honorifics
Heritage language (2,801 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
minorities. In various fields, such as foreign language education and linguistics, the definitions of heritage language become more specific and divergent
English phrasal verbs (3,059 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bas; McMahon, April (eds.). The Handbook of English Linguistics. Blackwell handbooks in linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 126–149. ISBN 9781405113823
Omega (1,692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the English word raw in dialects without the cot–caught merger, in contrast to omicron which represented the close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [o]