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(linguistics) the process of vowel turning into its ablaut variant
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(linguistics) A potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite that it would be permissible by the grammatical rules of that language; its absence is therefore an accidental gap, in the ontologic sense of the word accidental (that is, circumstantial rather than essential).
adj
(linguistics, Indo-European, of root nominals) Having the accent on the root in the strong cases and on the desinence in the weak cases.
adj
(linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European athematic nominals, having a specific pattern of ablaut in which the accent is placed on the root syllable in all cases.
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(linguistics) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See agglutinative.
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A direct translation of an utterance from one language to another such that the original utterance can be unambiguously and correctly recovered.
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(linguistics) Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.
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(linguistics) Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay.
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(linguistics) difference in ordering between consecutive syntactic layers
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(grammar, rhetoric) Substitution of one grammatical case for another.
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The changing of a sound in a word for effect, or to force a rhyme; a metaplasmic substitution.
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(linguistics) Obtained via apheresis
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(linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial; procope.
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The aphetized form of a word, i.e. a word which has dropped its initial vowel or syllable, such as squire.
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(linguistics, of a word) Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel.
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(linguistics) To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable.
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(linguistics) A word formed by removing the end of a longer word
adj
(linguistics) Of or pertaining to apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable.
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(sociolinguistics, orthography) An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.
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(rare) The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.
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(grammar, linguistics, now rare) Uninflected.
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(linguistics, of an inflected form) whose stressed syllable is in the suffix
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(grammar, linguistics) Qualified by an article
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(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.
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(linguistics) The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.
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(linguistics) The property of being a clitic.
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(phonology) The merging of two segments into one.
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(phonology) To assimilate the place of articulation of one speech sound to that of an adjacent speech sound.
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(linguistics) The action or process of coarticulating.
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(linguistics) External vowel sandhi; contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
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(linguistics) A word that occurs only twice in a given corpus.
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(linguistics) The evolution towards disyllabicity.
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(Irish grammar, Manx grammar) A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see Appendix:Irish mutations.
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(rhetoric) interjection; ecphonesis
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(phonology) The elision of a final /m/, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
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(linguistics) The omission of a letter or syllable between two words; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.
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(linguistics) The use of enclitics in the syntax of a language.
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(grammar) Affixed phonetically.
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(linguistics) The addition of a letter or sound at the end of a word, without changing its meaning.
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(phonology, grammar) Sandhi that occurs between two words.
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(linguistics) The situation where a particular segment or prosodic unit of a word may be ignored for the purposes of determining the stresses in the word's pronunciation.
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(linguistics) An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard or an earlier form of the language.
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Ellipsis of hapax legomenon. [(linguistics) A word occurring only once in a given corpus.]
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(linguistics) A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
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(linguistics) The use of a single word to convey a complex idea.
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This also happens before words beginning with gn, pn, ps, x, y, and z and before certain words starting with ch that are derived from French.
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(phonology, grammar) Sandhi that occurs at morpheme boundaries inside of a word.
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(linguistics) A spelling that is not etymological, arising from a merger between a phoneme in the spelled word and a different phoneme.
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(linguistics) undergoing iotation
adj
(linguistics, of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morpheme
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(linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
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(linguistics) The situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.
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(phonology) Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs.
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(linguistics, of a noun) Having a fixed accent on the suffix
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The accidental transposition of part of the sounds of two words in a phrase; the production of spoonerisms.
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(linguistics) Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
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(linguistics) Any word carrying a complete sense by itself; not a polylectic term.
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(linguistics) a set of forms for the conjugation of a verb.
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(Irish grammar) eclipsis
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An orthophemistic term, one that is neither euphemism nor dysphemism.
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The accentuation of a proclitic or enclitic.
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(Bantu linguistics) Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
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To make a word oxytone by dropping the main stress on the final syllable
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(linguistics) The non-verbal elements of speech, and to a limited extent of writing, used to modify meaning and convey emotion, such as pitch, volume, and intonation
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The repetition of a sound in adjacent or nearby words.
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(rare) A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word.
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(linguistics) A paroxytone word.
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(phonology) The act or process of pharyngealizing.
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(linguistics) The borrowing of a word into one language from another which completely or partially preserves both the original sound and meaning.
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Preceding the use of true language
adj
Relating to language skills that do not require knowledge of the meaning of words
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(grammar) Left dislocation.
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(uncountable, linguistics) The use of proclitics in the syntax of a language.
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(linguistics) A clitic that joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both.
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(linguistics) Apheresis, the loss or removal of a sound at the beginning of a word.
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(phonology) A form of elision in which the latter word loses its first vowels.
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(linguistics) A proparoxytone word.
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(linguistics) The imposition of prosodic structure (e.g. syllables, feet, stress, etc.) onto string of segments (i.e. sounds such as consonants and vowels)
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(phonology) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (“sphere”) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).
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An interaction between an adult (typically a mother) and baby, that includes words, sounds and gestures, that attempts to convey meaning before the onset of language in the child
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(linguistics) An early word-like utterance produced by an infant before it has acquired true language.
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(linguistics) Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
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(linguistics) A form of ellipsis that elides most but not all of a non-finite verb phrase, as in "He drinks milk more often than he does water".
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(phonetics, phonology) An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the following sound.
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(Indo-European studies) The phenomenon or process of metathesis in a Proto-Indo-European root between the vowel and a neighbouring sonorant, which led to both possible full grades existing, e.g. *grebʰ- and *gerbʰ-.
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Alternative form of symploce [(rhetoric) The repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses.]
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Obsolete form of synalepha. [The suppression of a vowel at the end of word when it is followed by another word beginning with a vowel.]
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(grammar) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.
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Alternative spelling of synaeresis [(linguistics, prosody) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.]
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(linguistics) Of a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of tmesis [(prosody) The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.]
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(linguistics, syntax) Making use of verb-framing.
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(linguistics) The way that tests affect how learners acquire and use a language.
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Alternative form of yod coalescence [(phonology) A process in English phonology whereby the clusters [dj], [tj], [sj], and [zj] become [dʒ], [tʃ], [ʃ], and [ʒ], respectively, through mutual assimilation.]
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