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Descriptive linguistics

Accent (sociolinguistics)
Manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation
Anthropological linguistics
Study of language within historical and social contexts
Bilingual education
Education conducted in two languages
Business English
Part of English for specific purposes
Code-switching
Action of changing between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation
Comparative linguistics
Branch of linguistics
Consonant
Speech sound articulated by closing the vocal tract fully or partially
Dialect
Geographically- or socially-determined language variety
Diglossia
Situation in which two dialects or languages are used in fairly strict compartmentalization by a single language community
Ə
Vowel sound
Endangered language
Language that is at risk of falling out of use
Etymology
Study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time
Graphetics
Study of written graphs independent of language
Grimm's law
Sound shift in the Germanic languages
Historical linguistics
Study of language change over time
International English
English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects
International Phonetic Alphabet
System of phonetic notation
Jargon
Specialist terminology
Language change
Modification or development of a language
Language death
Process in which a language eventually loses its last native speaker
Linguistic description
Work of objectively describing a particular language
Multilingualism
Use of multiple languages
Phonetics
Study of how humans produce and perceive sounds
Phonological change
Phenomenon in phonology
Prosody (linguistics)
Part of linguistics concerned with elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments, but properties of syllables and larger units of speech
Register (sociolinguistics)
Form of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation
Rhotic consonant
"R" consonants; a type of liquid consonant
Semantic change
Evolution of a word's meaning
Slang
Vocabulary of an informal register
Sociolect
Language variety or register peculiar to a specific social class
Sociolinguistics
Study on aspects of language and society
Sound change
Process of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure
Syntactic change
Concept in linguistics
Vowel
Sound in spoken language, articulated with an open vocal tract