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Conjunctions
Caterina Mauri
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
ConjunctionsIntroductionConjunctions are linguistic elements that link two or more words, phrases, clauses, or sentences within a larger unit, in such...
Connectionism
Ping Li, Xiaowei Zhao
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
ConnectionismIntroductionConnectionism, also known as parallel distributed processing (PDP) or artificial neural networks, and most recently reenginee...
Consonant Epenthesis
Rebecca Morley
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Consonant EpenthesisIntroductionUse of the term epenthesis implies an input-output mapping relationship in which the output contains more segmental ma...
Contrastive Analysis in Linguistics
Christian Mair
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Contrastive Analysis in LinguisticsIntroductionIn its core sense, contrastive linguistics can be defined as the theoretically grounded, systematic and...
Conversation Analysis
Jack Sidnell
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Conversation Analysis Introduction Conversation analysis (CA) is an approach to the study of social interaction that emerged in the 1960s in t...
Conversation, Maxims of
Benjamin Spector
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Maxims of Conversation Introduction One of the central goals of contemporary linguistic pragmatics is to account for how competent language us...
Conversational Implicature
Darcy Sperlich
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Conversational Implicature Introduction The theory of conversational implicature originates from Gricean pragmatics, involving concepts of the...
Cooperative Principle
Laurence Horn
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Cooperative Principle Introduction The basis of Gricean pragmatics is the cooperative principle (CP): “Make your conversational contribution s...
Coordination
Grant Goodall
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Coordination Introduction Coordination is a phenomenon in which two or more elements, known as “conjuncts,” are linked together, often with a ...
Copula
Barbara Citko
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Copula Introduction Copulas and copular clauses are interesting for a variety of reasons: morphological, syntactic, semantic, historical, prag...
Creoles
Pieter Muysken, Margot van den Berg
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Creoles Introduction Languages in contact can result in the emergence of several new languages, ranging from pidgins and Creoles to intertwined...
Creoles, Grammatical Categories in
Marsha Forbes-Barnett
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Grammatical Categories in Creoles Introduction Grammatical categories may be split into two large groups. There are those that are verbal or s...
Critical Periods
David P. Birdsong
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Critical PeriodsIntroductionA critical period is a bounded maturational span during which experiential factors interact with biological mechanisms to ...
Cross-Language Speech Perception and Production
Lisa Davidson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Cross-Language Speech Perception and ProductionIntroductionCross-language speech perception and production (CLSP) is the study of how speakers produce...
Cyberpragmatics
Francisco Yus
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
CyberpragmaticsIntroductionThe term cyberpragmatics was coined as a proposal to study Internet-mediated communication from a cognitive pragmatics poin...
Default Semantics
Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Default SemanticsIntroductionDefault Semantics (DS) is a theory of discourse that represents the main meaning intended by the speaker and recovered by...
Definiteness
Klaus von Heusinger
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Definiteness Introduction Definiteness is a semantic-pragmatic notion that is closely associated with the use of the definite article (or deter...
Dementia and Language
Joël Macoir
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Dementia and LanguageIntroductionNeurodegenerative diseases progress over three distinct stages: (1) the preclinical stage, at which individuals can b...
Dene-Yeniseian
Edward J. Vajda
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Dene-YeniseianIntroductionDene-Yeniseian is a historical-comparative linguistic hypothesis that claims a genealogical relationship between the North A...
Dependencies
Igor Mel’čuk
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Dependencies Introduction Linguistic dependency is a binary relation between lexemes (≈ words) in an utterance; it is antireflexive, antisymme...
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