Linguistics - M - Oxford Bibliographies
Mass-Count Distinction
Alan Bale, David Barner
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Mass-Count Distinction Introduction The mass-count distinction is reflected in the syntax and semantics of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and quanti...
Mathematical Linguistics
Alice G.B. ter Meulen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Mathematical Linguistics Introduction Mathematical linguistics is a field of scientific linguistic inquiry applying mathematical methods and co...
Morphology
Mark Aronoff
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Morphology Introduction Morphology, the study of forms, is the branch of linguistics that deals with the internal structure of complex words. T...
Negation
Laurence Horn
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Negation Introduction Absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication, negation is a sine qua non of every human language, allowi...
Philosophy of Language
Bernhard Nickel
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Philosophy of Language Introduction Language is a central component of human existence. This platitude gives rise to at least two motivations t...
Phonetics, Acoustic
Allard Jongman
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Acoustic Phonetics Introduction Acoustic phonetics is the study of the acoustic characteristics of speech, including an analysis and descripti...
Phonetics, Articulatory
Marie K. Huffman
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Articulatory Phonetics Introduction Articulatory phonetics is concerned with the physical apparatus used to produce speech sounds and the physi...
Phonology
Paul de Lacy
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Phonology Introduction The term “phonology” has several meanings. It is often used to refer to generalizations about sounds and sound combinati...
Polarity
Anastasia Giannakidou
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Polarity Introduction Polarity phenomena in natural language are pervasive and diverse. Polarity items (PIs) are expressions of various syntact...
Psycholinguistics
Eva M. Fernández
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Psycholinguistics Introduction Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental processes and representations that support language acquisition an...
Reduplication
Suzanne Urbanczyk
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Reduplication Introduction Reduplication is a word-formation process in which meaning is expressed by repeating all or part of a word. The stud...
Sociolinguistics
Christine Mallinson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Sociolinguistics Introduction Sociolinguistics is the study of the effects of language use within and upon societies, and the reciprocal effect...
Speech Perception
Patrice Speeter Beddor
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Speech Perception Introduction Speech perception as an experimental discipline has a roughly sixty-year history. In a very broad sense, much o...
Syllables
Adam I. Cooper, Draga Zec
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Syllables Introduction The syllable is a grouping of segments that typically includes a vowel preceded, and possibly followed, by consonants. ...
Syntactic Knowledge, Children’s Acquisition of
Rosalind Thornton
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Children’s Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge Introduction Children the world over pass through stages as they gradually converge on the adult...
Typology
Robert Henderson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Typology Introduction Typology is used to cover two related types of investigations: (1) classifying languages based on shared grammatical pro...
Vowel Harmony
Harry van der Hulst
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Vowel Harmony Introduction We speak of vowel harmony when there is a general condition that demands that all vowels within a certain domain, us...