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Language acquisition

Language mechanics

Sound change and alternation

Shortened form of a word or phrase

Accent (sociolinguistics)

Manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation

Acronym (organization)

Political action committee

Part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun

Class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic roles

Affirmation and negation

Terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances

Set of letters used to write a given language

Alternation (linguistics)

Alternate phonetic realization of a morpheme

Anthropological linguistics

Study of language within historical and social contexts

Punctuation or diacritical mark (')

Applied linguistics

Study of language-related problems

Article (grammar)

Word used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun

Artificial language

Language which emerge either in computer simulations between artificial agents, robot interactions or controlled psychological experiments with humans

Assimilation (phonology)

Phonological process in linguistics

Stage of language acquisition in infancy

Typographical mark (\)

Bilingual education

Education conducted in two languages

Punctuation mark

Business English

Part of English for specific purposes

Deliberate misspelling for comic effect

Smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition

Speech and communication disorder

Action of changing between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation

Cognitive linguistics

Branch of linguistics

Colon (punctuation)

Punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line

Punctuation mark (,)

Comparative linguistics

Branch of linguistics

Computational linguistics

Interdisciplinary field

Conjunction (grammar)

Part of speech that connects two words, sentences, phrases, or clauses

Speech sound articulated by closing the vocal tract fully or partially

Constructed language

Consciously devised language

Contraction (grammar)

Shortening of words or phrases in speech and/or writing

Contrastive linguistics

Practice-oriented linguistic approach

Pre-sleep monologue made by young children while in bed

Cultural emphasis

Punctuation mark ( — )

Inflection of nouns, pronouns, numerals, adjectives, and articles according to number, gender, and/or case

Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Feature of grammar

Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison

Text for clarification; one of four rhetorical modes

Part of speech reflecting the reference of a noun

Glyph added to a letter

Geographically- or socially-determined language variety

Situation in which two dialects or languages are used in fairly strict compartmentalization by a single language community

Linguistic phenomenon where sounds diverge

Omission of sounds in words or phrases

Series of dots that indicates omission

Symbols used as emotional cues in text

Pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters

Endangered language

Language that is at risk of falling out of use

Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word

Writing on food

Study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time

Innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive

Evolutionary linguistics

Sociobiological approaches to linguistics

Exclamation mark

Punctuation mark (!) to show strong feelings

Extensive reading

Reading large amount of text in order to encounter and learn new vocabulary and language patern.

Language a person was raised speaking from birth

Property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise

Forensic linguistics

Application of linguistics to forensics

Structure of a formal language

Consonantal change

Topics referred to by the same term

Words supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information

Functional linguistics

Approach to linguistics

Generative grammar

Theory in linguistics

Structural rules of a language

Grammatical aspect

Grammatical category denoted by a verb

Grammatical case

Categorization of nouns, pronouns and adjectives in linguistics

Grammatical category

Analytical class within the grammar of a language

Grammatical conjugation

Creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection

Grammatical mood

Grammatical feature of sentences

Grammatical number

Use of grammar in a language to express number

Grammatical tense

Category that locates a situation in time

Scientific study of graphemes and scripts (writing systems)

Study of written graphs independent of language

Sound shift in the Germanic languages

Double chevrons used as quotation marks

Symbol representing the heart

Historical linguistics

Study of language change over time

Human skull symbolism

Attachment of symbolic meaning to the human skull

Punctuation mark used to join words

Diminutive form of a name

Graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept

Combination of words that has a figurative meaning

Process of word formation

Input hypothesis

Hypotheses of second-language acquisition

Linguistic modifier which enhances the word it modifies

Word or expression used to express an emotion or sentiment

Idiolect used by a second language learner

International English

English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects

International Phonetic Alphabet

System of phonetic notation

Internet linguistics

Domain of linguistics

Interpretive discussion

Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc.

Specialist terminology

Language (magazine)

Language acquisition

Process in which a first language is being acquired

Language change

Modification or development of a language

Language complexity

Concept in linguistics

Process in which a language eventually loses its last native speaker

Language development

Process starting early in human life

Obfuscation of language for fun and secrecy

Language interpretation

Facilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages

Language preservation

Efforts to save languages spoken by tiny minorities from extinction

Consonant sound change

Letter (alphabet)

Grapheme in an alphabetic system of writing

Linguistic discipline studying words

Lexis (linguistics)

Technical term for all words in a language collectively

Language used to facilitate communication between groups without a common native language

Linguistic description

Work of objectively describing a particular language

Linguistic Typology

Academic journal

Study of human language

Ability to read and write

Literary language

Language register used in literary writing

Concept in functional linguistics

Metathesis (linguistics)

Switching the order of sounds, such as "nuclear" to "nucular" or "ask" to "aks"

Additional given name

Smallest unit of morphology, or grammar in a language

Morphology (linguistics)

The study of words, their formation, and their relationships in a word

Morphophonology

Study of the interaction between morphology and phonology

Multilingualism

Use of multiple languages

Word or term used for identification by an external observer

Natural language

Language as naturally spoken by humans

Neurolinguistics

Neuroscience, and linguistics related studies

Informal name of a person, place, or thing

Grammatical formation of nouns from non-noun lexemes

Official script

Word whose pronunciation imitates sound of its denotation

Origin of language

How, why, when, and where language might have emerged

Origin of speech

Why, how and when people might've started talking

Set of conventions for written language

Category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause

Set of names by which an individual is known

Study of language in oral and written historical sources

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Phonemic orthography

Orthography in which the graphemes correspond to the phonemes of the language

Study of how humans produce and perceive sounds

Phonological change

Phenomenon in phonology

Phonological development

Acquisition of language skills during childhood

Branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages

Group of (one or more) words

Ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object

Simplified language

Word or grammatical construction used to indicate a relationship of possession in a broad sense

Branch of linguistics and semiotics relating context to meaning

Socially offensive form of language

Word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase

Way a word or a language is spoken

Grammatical concept

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

Short traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth

Psycholinguistics

Study of relations between psychology and language

Marks to indicate pacing of written text

Quantitative linguistics

Subdiscipline of mathematical linguistics that investigates languages using statistical methods to formulate language laws

Typographic character indicating a question

Punctuation mark (")

Taking in the meaning of letters or symbols

Linguistic phenomenon

Relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object

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

Type of sound changes at morpheme or syllable boundaries

Second language

Language spoken in addition to one's first language

Second-language acquisition

Process, in which a second or additional language after the first language has been acquired

Semantic change

Evolution of a word's meaning

Study of meaning in language

Punctuation mark

Study of signs and sign processes

Sentence (linguistics)

Textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked, expressing a complete thought in non-functional linguistics

Sequential bilingualism

Bilingualism by learning a second language after a first

Comma before the conjunction in a list

Sign (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

1979 studio album by America

Vocabulary of an informal register

Slash (punctuation)

Oblique slanting line punctuation mark '/'

Stylized image of a smiling face

Language variety or register peculiar to a specific social class

Sociolinguistics

Study on aspects of language and society

Process of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure

Space (punctuation)

Blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables, or other written or printed glyphs; precise typographical rules differ according to language and context

Human vocal communication using spoken language

Utterance that serves a performative function

Speech processing

Study of speech signals and the processing methods of these signals

Speech repetition

Repeating something someone else said

Set of conventions to represent words in writing

Spelling pronunciation

Pronunciation of a word influenced by its spelling

Spelling reform

Changing of the fundamental parts of orthography of a language

Spoken language

Language produced by articulate sounds

Standard language

Language variety with substantially codified usage and often attributed to professional/public contexts

Hereditary portion of a personal name

Set of written symbols that represent the syllables or moras which make up spoken words.

Unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds

Something that represents an idea, process, or physical entity

Syntactic change

Concept in linguistics

Compiler-generation system

Systemic functional linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Branch of linguistics which inquires into the nature of language

In generative grammar, a formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb

Transfer of the meaning of something in one language into another

Transliteration

Conversion of a text from one script to another

Transphonologization

Typographical error

Mistake made in the typing process (such as a spelling mistake) of printed material

Visual language

System of communication using visual elements

Body of words used in a particular language

Vocabulary development

Process of learning words

Sound in spoken language, articulated with an open vocal tract

Smallest linguistic element that will be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content

Language that is spoken internationally and often learned as a second language

Persistent representation of language

Any conventional method of visually representing verbal communication

Written language

Representation of a language through writing