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Salish Languages
Donna B. Gerdts
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Salish Languages Introduction The Salish language family consists of twenty-three languages spoken in southwestern Canada and the northwestern...
Saussure, Ferdinand de
John E. Joseph
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Ferdinand de SaussureIntroductionFerdinand de Saussure (b. 1857–d. 1913) is acknowledged as the founder of modern linguistics and semiology, and as ha...
Second Language Acquisition, Anaphora Resolution in
Cristóbal Lozano
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Anaphora Resolution in Second Language AcquisitionIntroductionAn area of second language acquisition (SLA) that has received much attention over the p...
Semantic Maps
Thanasis Georgakopoulos
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Semantic MapsIntroductionA semantic map is a method for visually representing cross-linguistic regularity or universality in semantic structure. This ...
Semantic Roles
Beth Levin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Semantic Roles Introduction The meaning of a predicate, especially a verb, may be characterized via the relations that its arguments bear to i...
Semantic-Pragmatic Change
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Semantic-Pragmatic ChangeIntroductionSemantic change is the subfield of historical linguistics that investigates changes in sense. In 1892, the German...
Semantics, Cognitive
Fuyin (Thomas) Li
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Cognitive SemanticsIntroductionCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. It is a subfield of cognitive li...
Sentence Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
Paola E. Dussias, Anne L. Beatty-Martínez, Michael A. Johns, Manuel F. Pulido
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Sentence Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual SpeakersIntroductionThe main goal of monolingual models of sentence processing is to explain how the ...
Sign Language Linguistics
Carl Börstell, Wendy Sandler, Mark Aronoff
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Sign Language Linguistics Introduction Sign language linguistics is one of the younger areas of linguistic research, having been a field in it...
Sociolinguistics
Christine Mallinson, J. Inscoe, Lydda López Valdez
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
SociolinguisticsIntroductionSociolinguistics is the study of the effects of language use within and upon societies, and the reciprocal effects of soci...
Sociolinguistics, Variationist
Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Variationist SociolinguisticsIntroductionResearchers in language variation seek to understand how linguistic, social, and individual factors influence...
Sonority
Steve Parker
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
SonorityIntroductionSonority is a nonbinary phonological feature categorizing sounds into a relative scale. Many versions of the sonority hierarchy ex...
Sound Change
Joseph Salmons
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Sound ChangeIntroductionSound change is the usual name given to a subfield dedicated to how speech sounds become different over time, and it has one o...
South American Indian Languages
Willem F. H. Adelaar
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
South American Indian Languages Introduction With more than a hundred linguistic lineages and a considerable amount of typological variation, ...
Specific Language Impairment
Cornelia Hamann
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Specific Language Impairment Introduction Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have a developmental disorder characterized by belo...
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...
Speech Production
Eryk Walczak
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Speech ProductionIntroductionSpeech production is one of the most complex human activities. It involves coordinating numerous muscles and complex cogn...
Speech Synthesis
Simon King
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Speech SynthesisIntroductionSpeech synthesis has a long history, going back to early attempts to generate speech- or singing-like sounds from musical ...
Suppletion
Ljuba Veselinova
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
SuppletionIntroductionThe term suppletion is typically used to refer to the phenomenon whereby regular semantic and/or grammatical relations are encod...
Switch-Reference
Andrew McKenzie
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Switch-ReferenceIntroductionSwitch-reference (SR) describes morphemes associated with clause junctures that typically indicate whether the subjects of...
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