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Nasals and Nasalization
Bert Botma
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Nasals and NasalizationIntroductionA nasal consonant is a consonant whose production involves a lowered velum and a closure in the oral cavity, so tha...
Negation
Laurence Horn
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
NegationIntroductionAbsent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication, negation is a sine qua non of every human language, allowing for th...
Niger-Congo Languages
Jeff Good
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Niger-Congo LanguagesIntroductionNiger-Congo languages dominate sub-Saharan Africa, and the family constitutes one of the world’s largest referential ...
Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages
Brett Baker
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages Introduction The Non-Pama-Nyungan languages are those indigenous Australian languages whose traditional territory w...
Northeast Caucasian Languages
David Erschler
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Northeast Caucasian Languages Introduction Northeast Caucasian (also often referred to as Nakh-Dag(h)estanian) languages are autochthonously s...
Nostratic
George Starostin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Nostratic Introduction The term Nostratic commonly designates a hypothetical macrofamily, or “superfamily,” consisting of several linguistic f...
Number
Paolo Acquaviva
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
NumberIntroductionThrough the category of number, languages express conceptual oppositions centering on the contrast between “one” and “not-one.” In t...
Oceanic Languages
Malcolm Ross
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Oceanic LanguagesIntroductionOceanic languages are spoken across the Pacific Ocean, stretching from the Caroline Islands and the north coast of New Gu...
Papuan Languages
Harald Hammarström
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Papuan Languages Introduction The term “Papuan languages” is used to denote the indigenous languages of the New Guinea region that do not belo...
Penutian Languages
Anthony Grant
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Penutian LanguagesIntroductionThe Penutian language family (or Penutian hypothesis) is the largest genealogical linguistic grouping in western North A...
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
Michael Ashby
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Phonetics Introduction Phonetics may be defined as the science of speech. It is concerned with all aspects of the production, transmission, an...
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...
Phonological Research, Psycholinguistic Methodology in
Shigeto Kawahara
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Psycholinguistic Methodology in Phonological ResearchIntroductionThe primary data collection strategy deployed by modern theoretical linguistics is to...
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...
Phonology, Computational
Jane Chandlee
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Computational PhonologyIntroductionMuch like the term “computational linguistics”, the term “computational phonology” has come to mean different thing...
Phonology, Early Child
Marilyn Vihman
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Early Child PhonologyIntroductionChild phonology is a relatively young discipline. Although diary studies provided data and analyses from the early 20...
Pidgins
Mikael Parkvall, Peter Bakker
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Pidgins Introduction Pidgins are languages which have come about in situations where people needed to communicate but where no common language...
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...
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