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Acceptability Judgments
Jon Sprouse
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Acceptability Judgments ...
Acoustic Phoneitcs
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...
Acquisition, Second Language, and Bilingualism, Psycholinguistic Perspectives on
Eleonora Rossi, Judith Kroll
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition and BilingualismIntroductionHow do the mind and brain accommodate the presence of more th...
Adpositions
Alan Libert
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
AdpositionsIntroductionAdposition is the name of a part of speech or word class. Although it may not be a familiar term to those outside of linguistic...
Affixation
Stela Manova
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Affixation Introduction Affixation is a morphological process whereby a bound morpheme, an affix, is attached to a morphological base. Diachro...
African Linguistics
Jouni Filip Maho
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
African Linguistics Introduction African languages appear in the written records already from Ancient Egyptian times, though then only a singl...
Afroasiatic Languages
Bonny Sands
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Afroasiatic LanguagesIntroductionAfroasiatic languages are found across North Africa and throughout much of East Africa and the Middle East. Afroasiat...
Agreement
Omer Preminger
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Agreement Introduction Agreement is a phenomenon in natural language in which the form of one word or morpheme covaries with the form of anoth...
Algonquian Linguistics
Conor McDonough Quinn
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Algonquian Linguistics Introduction The traditional and post-European contact range of the Algonquian languages covers an enormous area: roughl...
Altaic Languages
George Starostin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Altaic Languages Introduction The term “Altaic” is commonly applied by linguists to a number of language families, spread across Central Asia ...
Analogy in Language and Linguistics
Olga Fischer
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Analogy in Language and LinguisticsIntroductionAnalogy (from Ancient Greek αναλογια, “reasoning from one point to another”) is a cognitive process inv...
Anaphora
Eric Reuland, Martin Everaert, Anna Volkova
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Anaphora Introduction Anaphora can be generally defined as “subsequent reference to an entity already introduced in discourse” (Safir 2004a; se...
Animal Communication
Mark Krause
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Animal CommunicationIntroductionAnimal communication is a thriving area of study, with contributions from the fields of biology, ecology, animal behav...
Aphasia
Christos Salis, Jessica Obermeyer, Susan Edwards
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
AphasiaIntroductionAphasia is a language disorder acquired subsequent to brain damage that affects production and understanding of spoken and written ...
Applicatives
David A. Peterson
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
ApplicativesIntroductionApplicative constructions (henceforth, “applicatives”) allow languages to express what otherwise would be expressed as an obli...
Arawak Languages
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Arawak LanguagesIntroductionThe Arawak family is the largest in South America, with about forty extant languages. Arawak languages are spoken in lowla...
Argument Structure
Beth Levin
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Argument StructureIntroductionThe term “argument structure” is used to refer to the lexical representation of argument-taking lexical items—typically ...
Artificial Languages
Arika Okrent
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Artificial Languages Introduction Artificial languages are languages that have been consciously devised, usually by a single creator. They are...
Athabaskan Languages
Sharon Hargus
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Athabaskan Languages Introduction The Athabaskan family of languages is or was spoken in primarily three regions: (1) in the interior of Alaska...
Australian Languages
Claire Bowern
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Australian Languages Introduction At the time of the first European settlement of Australia in 1788, there were approximately 250 distinct lang...
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