Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
Editor/Author
Crystal, David
Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5296-9
Category: Language & Literature - Linguistics
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth edition, it has been revised and updated to reflect the latest terms in the field.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Symbols
- The International Phonetic Alphabet
- A
- A
- abbreviated clause
- abbreviation (n.)
- abbreviatory (adj.)
- abducted (adj.)
- abessive (adj./n.)
- A-binding (n.)
- ablative (adj./n.) (abl, ABL)
- ablaut (n.)
- A-bound (adj.)
- abrupt (adj.)
- absolute (adj.)
- absolutive (adj./n.) (abs, ABS)
- absorption (n.)
- abstract (adj.)
- accent (n.)
- accentology, accentuation (n.)
- acceptability (n.)
- acceptable (adj.)
- access (n.)
- accessibility hierarchy
- accessible (adj.)
- accidence (n.)
- accidental gap
- accommodate (v.)
- accommodation (n.)
- accomplishment (n.)
- accusative (adj./n.) (acc, ACC)
- accusativity (n.)
- achievement (n.)
- acoustic cue
- acoustic domain analog
- acoustic feature
- acoustic phonetics
- acquire (v.)
- acquisition (n.)
- acrolect (n.)
- acronym (n.)
- across-the-board (ATB)
- actant (n.)
- action (n.)
- active (adj./n.)
- active knowledge
- activity (n.)
- actor-action-goal
- actualization (n.)
- acute (adj.)
- additive bilingualism
- address (n.)
- addressee (n.)
- adducted (adj.)
- adequacy (n.)
- adequate (adj.)
- adessive (adj./n.)
- adicity (n.)
- adjacency (n.)
- adjacency condition
- adjacency pair
- adjacent (adj.)
- adjectival (adj./n.)
- adjective (n.) (A, adj, ADJ)
- adjoin (v.)
- adjunct (n.)
- adjunction (n.)
- adjunctival (adj./n.)
- adnominal (adj./n.)
- adposition (n.)
- adstratal (adj.)
- adstratum (n.)
- adultocentric (adj.)
- adultomorphic (adj.)
- advanced tongue root
- advancement (n.)
- adverb (n.) (A, adv, ADV)
- adverb clause
- adverbial (adj./n.)
- adverb phrase
- adversative (adj./n.)
- aerometry (n.)
- affect (n.)
- affect alpha
- affected (adj.)
- affective (adj.)
- affirmative (adj./n.)
- affix (n.) (AFF)
- affixal morphology
- affixation, affix-hopping, affixing (n.), (n.), (adj.)
- affricate (n.)
- affricated, affrication (adj.),(n.)
- African-American English
- agent (n.)
- agentive (adj./n.) (AGT)
- agentive passive
- agentless (adj.)
- agglutinating, agglutination (adj.), (n.)
- agglutinative (adj.)
- AGR /‘ag/
- agrammatic speech
- agrammatism (n.)
- agree (v.)
- agreement (n.)
- airstream mechanism
- Aktionsart, Aktionsarten /aktInsat/ (n.), plural
- alethic /liθIk/ (adj.)
- algorithm (n.)
- alienability (n.)
- alienable (adj.)
- ALIGN
- alignment (n.) (ALIGN)
- allative (adj./n.) (all, ALL)
- allegro (adj.)
- allo-
- allochrone, allograph, allokine, alloseme (n.)
- allomorph, allomorphic, allomorphy (n.)(adj.),(n.)
- allonym (n.)
- allophone, allophonic, allophony (n.), (adj.), (n.)
- allophonic transcription
- allotagma (n.)
- alphabetism (n.)
- alpha notation
- alternant (n.)
- alternate, alternating (v.)(adj.)
- alternation (n.)
- alternative set
- alveolar (adj.)
- alveopalatal, alveo-palatal (adj.)
- ambifix (n.)
- ambiguity (n.)
- ambiguous (adj.)
- ambilingualism (n.)
- ambisyllabicity (n.)
- ameliorate (v.)
- amelioration (n.)
- amplitude (n.)
- anacoluthon (n.)
- analogical (adj.)
- analogy (n.)
- analysable (adj.)
- analysis-by-synthesis (n.)
- analytic (adj.)
- analyticity (n.)
- anaphor (n.)
- anaphora (n.)
- anaphoric (adj.)
- anaptyctic (adj.)
- anaptyxis /anap'tIksIs/ (n.)
- anchor (n./v.)
- anchoring (n.)
- angled brackets notation
- animate (adj.)
- anomalous sentences
- antagonistic constraints
- antecedent (n.)
- anterior (adj.)
- anteriority (n.)
- anthropological linguistics
- anthroponomastics, anthroponymy (n.)
- anthropophonics (n.)
- anticipation (n.)
- anticipatory (adj.)
- antiformant (n.)
- antipassive (adj./n.)
- antiresonance (n.)
- antonym (n.)
- antonymy (n.)
- aorist (n.) (aor, AOR)
- aoristic (adj.)
- A-over-A (adj.)
- aperiodic (adj.)
- aperture (n.)
- apex (n.)
- aphaeresis /‘fIrsIs/ (n.)
- aphesis, aphetic /‘afsIs/ (n.)/fetIk/ (adj.)
- apical (adj.), apico-
- apocope /‘pDkpi/ (n.)
- apodosis /ap‘dsIs/ (n.)
- A-position (n.)
- appellative (n.)
- appendix (n.)
- applicable, applicability (adj.),(n.)
- application (n.)
- applicational grammar
- applicative (adj./n.) (appl)
- applied linguistics
- applied stylistics
- apposition (n.)
- appositive, appositional (adj.)
- appropriate (adj.)
- appropriateness (n.)
- approximant (n.)
- aptronym (n.)
- arbitrariness (n.)
- arbitrary reference
- arboreal (adj.)
- ARC (n.)
- archaism (n.)
- archiphoneme (n.)
- archistratum (n.)
- area (n.)
- areal linguistics
- argument (n.) (A, arg)
- arity (n.)
- arrangement (n.)
- article (n.) (art)
- articulation (n.)
- articulator (n.)
- articulator-based feature theory
- articulator model
- articulatory analog
- articulatory dynamics
- articulatory kinematics
- articulatory phonetics
- articulatory phonology
- articulatory setting
- articulometer (n.)
- artificial language
- ascension (n.)
- ascriptive (adj.)
- aspect (n.) (asp)
- Aspects model/theory
- aspectual (adj.)
- aspectualizer (n.)
- aspirata, aspirate (n.)
- aspiration (n.)
- assertion (n.)
- assign (v.)
- assignment function
- assimilation (n.)
- assimilatory (adj.)
- associate (n.)
- association (n.)
- association convention
- association line
- associative (adj.)
- asterisk (n.)
- asymmetric rhythmic theory
- asyndeton (n.)
- atelic (adj.)
- atlas (n.)
- atomic phonology
- atomic proposition
- atonal language
- attenuative (adj./n.)
- attested (adj.)
- attitudes to language
- attitudinal (adj.)
- attract (v.)
- attract closest
- attribute (n.)
- attribution (n.)
- attributive (adj.)
- attrition (n.)
- audible friction
- audio-visual integration
- auditory phonetics
- auditory target
- augmentative (adj./n.) (augm)
- augmented transition network grammar
- autohyponym (n.)
- autolexical syntax
- automatic (adj.)
- automatic speech recognition
- automaton, automata (n.), plural
- autonomous (adj.)
- autonomous grid
- autonomous speech
- autosegment (n.)
- autosegmental phonology
- auxiliary (adj./n.) (aux, AUX)
- auxiliary element
- auxiliary language
- avalent (adj.)
- avoidance languages
- axiom (n.)
- axiomatic, axiomatics (adj.),(n.)
- axis (n.)
- B
- baby-talk (n.)
- Bach-Peters sentence
- back (adj.)
- backchannelling (n.)
- back-formation (n.)
- backgrounding (n.)
- backlooping (n.)
- back-reference (n.)
- bahuvrihi (adj.) /bahu‘vrihi/
- balanced bilingual
- bandwidth (n.)
- bar (n.)
- bare infinitive
- bare phrase structure
- bare plural
- barrier (n.)
- bar variable
- base (n.)
- base component
- basic expression
- basic form
- basic level
- basilect (n.)
- beat (n.)
- behaviourism (n.)
- benefactive (adj./n.) (ben, BEN)
- beneficiary (n.)
- biased constraint demotion algorithm
- biconditional (n.)
- bidialectalism (n.)
- bidialectism (n.)
- bidirectionality (n.)
- big PRO
- bijection principle (BP)
- bilabial (adj./n.)
- bilateral (adj.)
- bilingual (adj./n.)
- biliteracy (n.)
- bimoraic (adj.)
- binarity, binarism (n.)
- binary choice
- binary evaluation
- binary feature
- bind (v.)
- binding (adj./n.)
- binomial (adj./n.)
- biolinguistics (n.)
- biological linguistics
- bioprogramme/bioprogram hypothesis
- bipositionality (n.)
- biuniqueness (n.)
- bivalent (adj.)
- Black English Vernacular
- blade (n.)
- bleaching (n.)
- bleeding (adj./n.)
- blend (n.)
- blending (n.)
- block (v.)
- blocking (n.)
- block language
- Bloomfieldian (adj./n.)
- Bloomfieldianism (n.)
- Boolean (adj.)
- bootstrapping (n.)
- borrowing (n.)
- bottom-up (adj.)
- bound (adj.)
- boundary-symbol
- boundary tone
- bounded foot
- boundedness (n.)
- bounding theory
- bow-wow theory
- brace notation, bracket notation
- bracketed grid
- bracketing (n.)
- bracketing paradox
- branch (n.)
- branching (adj./n.)
- branching quantifiers
- breath group (n.)
- breathiness (n.)
- breathy (adj.)
- bridge (n.)
- broad (adj.)
- buccal (adj.)
- bunch, bunched (v.) (adj.)
- bunching (n.)
- bundle (n.)
- burst (n.)
- byname (n.)
- C
- C
- calculus (n.)
- calque (n.)
- cancellation (n.)
- candidate (n.)
- canonical (adj.)
- capacity (n.)
- cardinal (adj./n.)
- cardinal vowels
- caregiver/caretaker speech
- Cartesian linguistics
- case (n.)
- case grammar
- cataphora (n.)
- cataphoric (adj.)
- categorial grammar
- categorical perception
- categorization (n.)
- category (n.)
- category selection
- category shifting
- catenative (adj./n.)
- causal chain theory
- causative (adj./n.) (caus, CAUS)
- cavity (n.)
- c-command
- cenematics, cenetics (n.)
- ceneme (n.)
- centre (n.)
- centre-embedding
- centring diphthong
- centum language /kentam/
- chain (n.)
- CHAIN
- chain/choice (n.)
- chain condition/formation principle
- chain shift
- change from above/below
- channel (n.)
- character (n.)
- charm (n.)
- charmed, charmless (adj.)
- chart (n.)
- chart parser
- checked (adj.)
- checking (adj.)
- chereme (n.)
- cherology (n.)
- chest pulse
- child-directed speech
- child language acquisition/development
- choice (n.)
- choice function
- chômeur (n.)
- Chomsky-adjunction (n.)
- Chomskyan (adj./n.)
- Chomsky hierarchy
- chroneme (n.)
- chunk (n, v.)
- chunking (n.)
- circonstant (n.)
- circumfix (n.)
- circumscription (n.)
- citation form
- clash, clashing (v.), (n.)
- class (n.)
- class cleavage
- class dialect
- classeme (n.)
- classification, classify (n.), (v.)
- classifier (n.)
- class node
- clausal (adj.)
- clause (n.)
- clause-chaining language
- clause-mate (n.)
- clause-wall (n.)
- cleavage (n.)
- cleft sentence
- click (n.)
- cline (n.)
- clinical linguistics
- clipped form
- clipping (n.)
- clitic (n.)
- clitic-climbing, clitic-doubling (n.)
- cliticize, cliticization (v.), (n.)
- close (adj.)
- closed (adj.)
- closure (n.)
- cluster (n.)
- coalesce (v.)
- coalescence (n.)
- coalescent (adj.)
- coarticulation (n.)
- cocktail party phenomenon
- coda (n.)
- code (n.)
- code-mixing, code-switching (n.)
- codification (n.)
- codify (v.)
- cognate (adj./n.)
- cognise (v.)
- cognitive domain
- cognitive grammar
- cognitive metaphor
- cognitive semantics
- cognitivism (n.)
- cognize/cognise (v.)
- co-grammar (n.)
- coherence (n.)
- cohesion (n.)
- cohesiveness (n.)
- co-hyponym (n.)
- co-indexing (n.)
- collapse (v.)
- collective (adj.)
- colligation (n.)
- collocability (n.)
- collocation (n.)
- colouring (n.)
- combination (n.)
- combinatorial (adj.)
- comitative (adj./n.)
- command (n./v.)
- comment (n.)
- comment clause
- commissive (adj./n.)
- common (adj.)
- common core
- common ground
- communication (n.)
- communication science
- communicative (adj.)
- communicative dynamism (CD)
- commutation (n.)
- comp
- compact (adj.)
- comparative (adj.)
- comparative linguistics
- comparative method
- comparative philology
- comparative reconstruction
- comparison (n.)
- compensatory lengthening
- competence (n.)
- complement (n.) (comp)
- complementarity (n.)
- complementary (adj.)
- complementizer (n.) (Comp, COMP, C)
- complete assimilation
- complete feedback
- complex (adj.)
- complexity (n.)
- complex NP constraint
- complex preposition
- complex sentence
- complex symbol
- complex tone
- component (n.)
- componential analysis
- composite verb
- composition (n.)
- compositionality (n.)
- compound (n.)
- compound bilingualism
- comprehension (n.)
- computational linguistics
- computational system
- computer corpus
- conative (adj.)
- concatenate (v.)
- concatenation (n.)
- conceptual blending/integration
- conceptual metaphor
- conceptual processes
- concessive (adj.)
- concord (n.)
- concrete (adj.)
- condition (n.)
- conditional (adj./n.) (cond)
- conditioned (adj.)
- condition on extraction domains (CED)
- configuration (n.)
- configurational languages
- congruence (n.)
- congruity (n.)
- conjoined (adj.)
- conjugation (n.)
- conjunct (n.)
- conjunction (n.)
- conjunctive (adj.)
- connected speech
- connection (n.)
- connectionism (n.)
- connective (adj./n.) (cn, conn)
- connector (n.)
- connotation (n.)
- consequent (n.)
- consonant (n.) (C)
- consonant harmony
- conspiracy (n.)
- conspire (v.)
- constant (adj.)
- constative (adj.)
- constellation (n.)
- constituency (n.)
- constituent (n.)
- constituent-command (v.)
- constrain (v.)
- constraint (n.)
- constraint demotion algorithm
- constriction (n.)
- construction (n.)
- constructional homonymity
- constructional schema
- construe (v.)
- consultant (n.)
- contact (adj./n.)
- contact assimilation
- containment (n.)
- content (n.)
- contentive (n.)
- content word
- context (n.)
- context change potential
- context of situation
- contextualize, contextualization (v.), (n.)
- contiguity (n.)
- contiguous assimilation
- contingent extrasyllabicity
- continuant (adj.) (cont)
- continuity hypothesis
- continuous (adj.)
- contoid (n.)
- contour (n.)
- contour tone
- contraction (n.)
- contradiction (n.)
- contradictory (adj./n.)
- contrafactive (adj./n.)
- contrary (adj./n.)
- contrast (n.)
- contrastive accent
- contrastive analysis (CA)
- contrastive rhetoric
- contrastive stress
- control (n.)
- controller (n.)
- convention
- conventional implicature
- convergence (n.)
- conversational implicature
- conversational maxims
- conversational turn
- conversation analysis (CA)
- converseness (n.)
- conversion (n.)
- co-occurrence (n.)
- co-operative principle
- co-ordinate bilingualism
- co-ordinating conjunction
- co-ordination (n.)
- co-ordinator (n.)
- co-phonology (n.)
- co-production (n.)
- copula (n.)
- copy (v.)
- copying (n.)
- copy tag
- core (adj./n.)
- co-referential (adj.)
- co-representational grammar
- coronal (adj.) (cor, COR)
- coronalization (n.)
- corpus, corpora plural (n.)
- corpus-internal/-external evidence
- correctness (n.)
- correlation (n.)
- correlative (adj.)
- correspond (v.)
- correspondence (n.)
- correspondence hypothesis
- cost (n.)
- co-text (n.)
- count (adj.)
- countable (adj.)
- counter-agent (n.)
- counter-bleeding (n.)
- counter-example (n.)
- counter-factual (adj./n.)
- counter-feeding (n.)
- counter-intuitive (adj.)
- count noun
- covered (adj.)
- covert (adj.)
- CP
- C-place (n.)
- cps
- cranberry morpheme
- crash (v.)
- creak (n.)
- creaky (adj.)
- creativity (n.)
- creole (n.)
- creolization, creolize (n.), (v.)
- creoloid (n.)
- critical discourse analysis
- critical linguistics
- critical period
- crossover (adj.)
- cross-sectional (adj.)
- cryptophasia (n.)
- c-selection
- C-slot (n.)
- c-structure (n.)
- cue (n.)
- culminativity (n.)
- cultural transmission
- cumulative (adj.)
- cupping (n.)
- curly brackets
- CV phonology
- CV rule
- CV-tier (n.)
- cycle (n.)
- cyclic (adj.)
- D
- dangling participle
- dark l
- data (n.)
- dative (adj./n.)
- daughter (n.)
- daughter-adjunction (n.)
- daughter-dependency grammar (DDG)
- daughter language
- Davidsonian semantics
- deadjectival (adj.)
- death (n.)
- debuccalized (adj.)
- declaration (n.)
- declarative (adj./n.)
- declension (n.)
- declination (n.)
- decode (v.)
- deconstruction (n.)
- decreolization (n.)
- de dicto/de re /deI ‘dIkt, deI reI/
- deep Case
- deep grammar
- default (n.)
- defective (adj.)
- deficit hypothesis
- defining (adj.)
- defining vocabulary
- definite (adj.)
- defooting (n.)
- deforestation (n.)
- degenerate foot
- degree (n.)
- deictic (adj./n.)
- deixis (n.) /daIksIs/
- delayed (adj.)
- delayed auditory feedback
- delete (v.)
- deletion (n.)
- delicacy (n.)
- delimitative (adj./n.)
- delinking (n.)
- delta (adj./n.)
- demarcative (adj.)
- demibeat (n.)
- demisyllabic (adj.)
- demonstrative (adj./n.)
- demotic (adj.)
- demotion (n.)
- denasalized (adj.)
- denominal (adj.)
- denotation (n.)
- dense neighbourhood
- dental (adj./n.)
- denti-alveolar (adj.)
- deontic (adj.) /deIntIk/
- deoralization (n.)
- dependence (n.)
- dependency grammar
- dependency phonology (DP)
- dependent (adj.)
- deponent verb
- depth (n.)
- depth hypothesis
- de re
- derivation (n.)
- derivational morphology
- derivational theory of complexity
- derived environment
- description (n.)
- descriptive adequacy/grammar/linguistics
- descriptivism, descriptivist (n.)
- desiderative (adj./n.)
- designated terminal element (DTE)
- destressing (n.)
- deterioration (n.)
- determiner (n.) (det, DET, D)
- determinism (n.)
- development (n.)
- developmental linguistics
- deverbal (adj.)
- deviance (n.)
- device (n.)
- devoiced (adj.)
- dia-
- diachronic (adj.)
- diacritic (adj./n.)
- diagramming (n.)
- dialect (n.)
- Perceptual dialectology
- dialectalization (n.)
- dialect atlas
- dialect chain
- dialect continuum
- dialect geography
- dialectology, dialectometry (n.)
- dialinguistics, diamorph, diaphone, diasystem, diatype (n.)
- dichotic listening
- dictionary (n.)
- difference hypothesis
- differential (n.)
- diffuse (adj.)
- diffusion (n.)
- diglossia (n.)
- digraph (n.)
- diminutive (adj./n.)
- ding-dong theory
- diphthong (n.)
- diplophonia (n.)
- direct (adj.)
- directional entailingness
- directionality (n.)
- directive (adj./n.)
- disambiguation (n.)
- discontinuity grammar
- discontinuity hypothesis
- discontinuous (adj.)
- discourse (n.)
- discourse analysis
- discourse attachment
- discourse deixis
- discourse in common sense entailment (DICE)
- discourse referent
- discourse representation theory (DAT)
- discovery procedure
- discrete (adj.)
- discreteness (n.)
- disharmony, disharmonicity (n.)
- disjunct (n.)
- disjunction (n.)
- dispersion (n.)
- displaced articulation
- displaced speech
- displacement (n.)
- dissimilation (n.)
- distance assimilation
- distinctiveness (n.)
- distinguisher (n.)
- distributed (adj.)
- distributed morphology (DM)
- distributed representation
- distribution (n.)
- distributive (adj./n.) (dist, DIST)
- disyllable (n.)
- ditransitive (adj.)
- divergence (n.)
- D-linking (n.)
- docking (n.)
- do-deletion/insertion/support
- domain (n.)
- dominance, dominate (n.), (v.)
- domination (n.)
- donkey sentence
- dorsal (adj.)
- dorso-palatal, dorso-velar (adj.)
- double articulation
- double-bar (adj./n.)
- double-bar juncture, double-cross juncture
- double-base (adj.)
- double cross
- double negative
- doublet (n.)
- doubly filled COMP filter
- downdrift (n.)
- downgrading (n.)
- downstep (n.)
- downward entailing
- drag chain
- drill (n.)
- drum language
- D-structure (n.)
- dual (adj.)
- dualism (n.)
- duality
- dummy (adj./n.)
- duplex perception
- duration (n.)
- durative (adj./n.) (dur, DUR)
- dvandva (adj.)
- dyadic (adj.)
- dynamic (adj.)
- dynamic linguistics/phonetics/phonology
- dynamic semantics
- dynamic time warping
- dynamic verb
- dynamism (n.)
- E
- ear-training (n.)
- Ebonics (n.)
- echo (n.)
- eclecticism (n.)
- ecolinguistics (n.)
- ecological linguistics, ecology of language
- economy (n.)
- -ed form
- edge (n.)
- educational linguistics
- egocentric speech
- egressive (adj.)
- ejective (adj./n.)
- elaborated (adj.)
- E-language (n.)
- elative (adj./n.)
- electroaerometer, electroaerometry (n.)
- electroglottograph (n.) (EGG)
- electrokymograph (n.)
- electrolaryngogram, electrolaryngograph(y) (n.)
- electromyograph (n.) (EMG)
- electropalatograph (n.) (EPG)
- element (n.)
- elicitation (n.)
- elide (v.)
- elision (n.)
- elite bilingualism
- ellipsis (n.)
- elliptical (adj.)
- elsewhere condition
- embedding (n.)
- emergentism (n.)
- emic/etic (adj.)
- emotive (adj.)
- emphatic consonant
- empiricism (n.)
- empty (adj.)
- empty category principle (EPG)
- enclisis, enclitic (n.)
- encode (v.)
- endangered language
- endearment, terms of
- endocentric (adj.)
- endoglossic (adj.)
- endophora (n.)
- endophoric (adj.)
- -en form
- engineering (n.)
- enlightened self-interest
- entail (v.)
- entailment (n.)
- entrench (v.)
- entry (n.)
- environment (n.)
- epenthesis (n.)
- epenthetic (adj.)
- epicene (adj.)
- epiglottis (n.)
- epistemic (adj.)
- epithet (n.)
- eponym (n.)
- equational (adj.)
- equative (adj.)
- equi NP deletion
- equipollent (adj.)
- equivalence (n.)
- erasure (n.)
- ergative (n.) (erg, ERG)
- error (n.)
- esophageal (adj.)
- essential conditions
- essive (adj./n.)
- Estuary English
- état de langue /eta d lãg/
- ethic(al) dative
- ethnography of communication/speaking
- ethnolinguistics (n.)
- Ethnologue
- ethnomethodology (n.)
- ethnopoetics (n.)
- ethnosemantics (n.)
- etic (adj.)
- etymology (n.)
- etymon (n.)
- E-type pronoun
- eurhythmy (n.)
- evaluative (adj.)
- evaluator (n.) (EVAL)
- eventive (adj./n.)
- event semantics
- event time
- event type
- evidence (n.)
- evidentiality (n.)
- exceptional case marking (ECM)
- exclamation (n.)
- exclamation mark (!)
- exclamative (adj./n.)
- exclusive (adj.)
- exemplar (n.)
- exhaustiveness (n.)
- exhaustivity (n.)
- existential (adj./n.)
- exocentric (adj.)
- exocentric compound
- exoglossic (adj.)
- exophora (n.)
- expanded pidgin
- expansion (n.)
- experiencer (n.)
- experimental phonetics
- explanatory (adj.)
- expletive (n.)
- explicature (n.)
- explicitness (n.)
- exponence (n.)
- expression (n.)
- expressive (adj.)
- extended standard theory (EST)
- extension (n.)
- extensive (adj.)
- external adequacy
- external argument
- external evidence
- externalized language
- external merge
- external sandhi
- external syllabus
- extraction (n.)
- extralinguistic (adj.)
- extrametricality (n.)
- extraposition (n.)
- extraprosodicity (n.)
- extrasyllabic (adj.)
- extrinsic (adj.)
- F
- face (n.)
- factitive (adj./n.)
- factive (adj./n.)
- factorial typology
- faculty of language
- fading juncture
- FAITH
- faithfulness (n.) (FAITH)
- fall (n./v.)
- falling (adj.)
- false cognates
- false friends
- family (n.)
- fatherese (n.)
- faux amis
- favourite (adj.)
- feature (n.)
- feature geometry
- feature percolation
- feedback (n.)
- feeding (n.)
- feet (n.)
- felicity conditions
- feminine (adj.)
- field (n.)
- file change semantics
- filled pause
- filler (n.)
- filter (n./v.)
- filtered speech
- final (adj.)
- final state
- finite (adj.)
- finite automata
- finite-state grammar (FSG)
- first language
- first language acquisition
- first person
- Firthian (adj.)
- fis phenomenon
- fission (n.)
- fixed (adj.)
- flap (n.)
- flat (adj.)
- flexion (n.)
- floating (adj.)
- flotation (n.)
- focal area
- focus (n.) (foc)
- folk bilingualism
- folk etymology
- foot (n.)
- FOOTBIN (n.)
- footless (adj.)
- foregrounding (n.)
- foreign language
- forensic linguistics
- form (n.)
- form v. meaning/function.
- formal (adj.)
- formal grammar
- formalism (n.)
- formalist (adj./n.)
- formality (n.)
- formalization (n.)
- formal semantics
- formal universal
- formant (n.)(F)
- formation rule
- formative (n.)
- form-class (n.)
- form of address
- formula, formulae (n.)
- formulaic language
- form word
- fortis (adj.)
- fortition (n.)
- forward-reference (n.)
- fossilized (adj.)
- fourth person
- frame (n.)
- free (adj.)
- free form/morpheme
- freely associating segments
- free relative clause
- free syllable
- free variation
- frequency (n.)
- frequentative (adj./n.) (freq)
- frication (n.)
- fricative (n.)
- friction (n.)
- frictionless continuant
- front (adj./v.)
- fronting (n.)
- frozen expression
- fry (n.)
- f-structure (n.)
- full (adj.)
- full conversion
- full interpretation
- full verb
- function (n./v.)
- functional application/composition
- functional category
- functional change
- functional composition
- functional grammar
- functional linguistics
- functional literacy
- functional load
- functional phonetics
- functional projection
- functional role
- functional sentence perspective (FSP)
- functional shift
- functional structure
- functional yield
- function word
- functor (n.)
- fundamental frequency
- fusion (n.)
- fusional (adj.)
- future tense (fut, FUT)
- fuzzy (adj.)
- G
- gamma-marking (n.)
- gap (n.)
- gapping (n.)
- garden-path sentences
- gemination (n.)
- gender (n.)
- genealogical classification
- general (adj.)
- General American (GA)
- generalization (n.)
- generalized alignment
- generalized binding
- generalized phrase-structure grammar (GPSG)
- generalized quantifier theory
- generalized transformation
- general linguistics
- general phonetics
- general pragmatics
- general semantics
- general stylistics
- generative (adj.)
- generator (n.) (GEN)
- generic (adj./n.)
- genetic classification
- Geneva School
- genitive (adj./n.)
- genre (n.)
- geographical dialect
- geographical linguistics
- geolinguistics (n.)
- geometry (n.)
- gerund, gerundive (n.)
- gestural phonology
- gesture (n.)
- ghost segment
- given (adj.)
- glide (n.)
- gliding vowel
- global (adj.)
- glossematics (n.)
- glosseme (n.)
- glossogenetics (n.)
- glossographia (n.)
- glossolalia (n.)
- glottal (adj.)
- Glottalization
- glottalic (adj.), glottalize (v.), glottalization (n.)
- glottochronology (n.)
- glottogram, glottograph(y) (n.)
- GLOW
- goal (n.)
- God's truth
- govern (v.)
- governee (n.)
- governing category/node
- government (n.)
- government-binding theory (GB)
- government phonology
- government theory
- governor (n.)
- gradability (n.)
- gradable (adj.)
- gradation (n.)
- gradience (n.)
- gradient evaluation
- gradient stratification
- gradual (adj.)
- grammar (n.)
- grammar induction
- grammatical (adj.)
- grammatical ambiguity
- grammatical category
- grammatical gender
- grammatical handbook
- grammatical inference
- grammaticality (n.)
- grammaticalization/grammaticization
- grammatical morpheme
- grammatical word see
- graph (n.)
- grapheme (n.)
- graphetics (n.)
- graphics (n.)
- graphic substance
- graphology (n.)
- grave /grav/ (adj.)
- Great Vowel Shift
- greed (n.)
- green linguistics
- grid (n.)
- grid-only phonology
- Grimm's law
- grinding (n.)
- groove (n.)
- grounding (n.)
- ground noun
- group (n.)
- group genitive
- grouping
- guttural (adj./n.)
- H
- habitual (adj.) (hab)
- half-close (adj.)
- half-open (adj.)
- Halle, Morris
- Hallidayan (adj.)
- hand configuration
- hapax legomenon
- haplology (n.)
- hard consonant
- hard palate
- hard sign
- harmonic (n.)
- harmonic phonology
- harmony (n.)
- hash (adj./n.)
- head (n.)
- head-driven phrase-structure grammar (HPSG)
- headed (adj.), headedness (n.)
- head-feature convention (n.) head-first, head-last (adj.)
- headless relative clause
- headlinese (n.)
- head movement constraint (HMC)
- head phrase
- headword (n.)
- heavy (adj.)
- hedge (n./v.)
- heightened subglottal pressure
- hertz (n.)
- hesitation (n.)
- heterography (n.)
- heteronym (n.)
- heteronymy (n.)
- heterorganic (adj.)
- heterosyllabic (adj.)
- heuristic (adj./n.)
- hiatus (n.)
- hidden Markov model
- hierarchy (n.)
- hieratic /haI'ratIk/ (n.)
- high (adj.)
- higher category
- high tone
- historic (adj.)
- historical dialect
- historical linguistics
- historic(al) present
- HMC
- hocus-pocus (adj.)
- hodiernal (adj.)
- hold (n./v.)
- hole in the pattern
- holonymy (n.)
- holophrase (n.)
- holophrasis (n.), holophrastic (adj.)
- homograph (n.)
- homography (n.)
- homomorphic (adj.)
- homonym (n.)
- homonymy (n.)
- homophene (n.)
- homopheny (n.)
- homophone (n.)
- homophony (n.)
- homorganic (adj.)
- honorific (adj./n.)
- horizontal grouping/splitting
- hortative (adj./n.)
- host (n.)
- HP (head phrase)
- humanistic (adj.)
- hybrid (adj./n.)
- hydronymy (n.)
- hypercorrection (n.)
- hypernasality (n.)
- hypernym, hyperonym (n.)
- hypersememic (adj.)
- hypersemotactics (n.)
- hyperurbanism (n.)
- hypocoristic (n.)
- hyponasality (n.)
- hyponym (n.)
- hyponymy (n.)
- hypophonemic (adj.)
- hypophonotactics (n.)
- hypotactic (adj.)
- Hz
- I
- iamb (n.)
- iambic reversal
- iconicity (n.)
- idealization (n.)
- ideational (adj.)
- identity (n.)
- identity operation
- ideogram (n.)
- ideograph (n.)
- ideophone (n.)
- idioglossia (n.)
- idiolect (n.)
- idiom (n.)
- idiophone (n.)
- I-language (n.)
- illative (adj./n.)
- ill formed (adj.)
- illiteracy (n.)
- illocutionary (adj.)
- image schema
- imitation (n.)
- immediate constituent (IC)
- immediate dominance
- imperative (adj./n.) (imp, imper, IMPER)
- imperfective (adj./n.)
- imperfect tense (imp, imperf, impf, IMPF)
- impersonal (adj.)
- implicational scaling
- implicational universal
- implicature (n.)
- implicit argument
- implosive (adj./n.)
- impressionistic transcription
- inalienable (adj.)
- inanimate (adj.)
- inceptive (adj./n.) (incep, INCEP)
- inchoative /in'kauativ/ (adj./n.)
- included (adj.)
- inclusion (n.)
- inclusive (adj.)
- inclusive language
- inclusiveness condition
- incompatibility (n.)
- incomplete assimilation
- incorporating (adj.)
- incorporation (n.)
- indefinite (adj.) (indef)
- indefinite vowel
- indeterminacy (n.)
- index (n.)
- indexical (adj.)
- indexing (n.)
- indicative (adj.) (indic, INDIC)
- indicator (n.)
- indices (n.)
- indirect (adj.)
- individual concept
- individual level
- ineffability (n.)
- inessive (adj./n.)
- infelicitous utterances
- infinitival (adj./n.)
- infinitive (n.) (inf, INF)
- infix (n.)
- INFL /'Infl/
- inflected/inflecting language
- inflection/inflexion (n.)
- inflectional language
- inflection phrase
- informality (n.)
- informant (n.)
- information (n.)
- -ing form
- ingressive (adj./n.)
- inherent Case
- inherent features
- inheritance (n.)
- inheritance principle
- initial (adj.)
- initialism (n.)
- initial state
- initial symbol
- initiator (n.)
- innateness (n.)
- input (n.)
- insertion (n.)
- in situ /in 'sIt∫u/
- instantaneous (adj.)
- institutional linguistics
- instrumental (adj./n.) (inst, INST)
- instrumental phonetics
- intensifier (n.)
- intension (n.)
- intensity (n.)
- intensive (adj.)
- interaction (n.)
- interchangeability (n.)
- interclausal grammar
- interdental (adj./n.)
- interface (n.)
- interference (n.)
- interjection (n.)
- interlanguage (n.)
- inter-level (n.)
- interlingua (n.)
- intermediate (adj.)
- internal adequacy
- internal argument
- internal evidence
- internalize (v.)
- internalized language
- internal merge
- internal open juncture
- internal reconstruction
- internal sandhi
- internal syllabus
- International Phonetic Association (IPA)
- interpersonal (adj.)
- interpretation (n.)
- interpretation function
- interpretive/interpretative (adj.)
- interrogative (adj./n.) (inter, interrog)
- interruptibility (n.)
- interrupted (adj.)
- intervocalic (adj.)
- intonation (n.)
- intonology (n.)
- intralevel rules
- intransitivity (n.)
- intrinsic (adj.)
- intrusion (n.)
- intrusive r
- intuition (n.)
- invariable (adj.)
- invariance (n.)
- invariant (adj.)
- inventory (n.)
- inversion (n.)
- IPA
- irregular (adj.)
- -ise/-ize
- island (n.)
- iso-
- isochronism (n.)
- isochrony (n.)
- isogloss, isograph
- isolate (n.)
- isolated (adj.)
- isolated language
- isolating (adj.)
- isolation (adj.)
- isolect, isolex, isomorph, isophone, isopleth, isoseme (n.)
- isomorphism (n.)
- isosyllabism, isosyllabicity (n.)
- item (n.)
- item and arrangement (IA)
- item and process (IP)
- iteration (n.)
- iterative (adj.)
- iterativity (n.)
- -ize
- J
- Jakobsonian (adj.)
- jaw setting
- jers (n.)
- JND
- junction (n.)
- juncture (n.)
- jussive (adj./n.)
- just noticeable difference (JND)
- K
- Katz-Postal hypothesis
- kernel (adj./n.)
- key (n.)
- key list
- kinaesthetic/kinesthetic feedback
- kine, kineme (n.)
- kinematics (n.)
- kinesics (n.)
- kinetic (adj.)
- kinship terms
- Kleene star ()
- knowledge about language
- koine /'kIni/ (n.)
- kymograph (n.)
- L
- labelling (n.)
- labial (adj./n.)
- labio-dental (adj./n.)
- labio-velar (adj./n.)
- LAD
- lag (n.)
- la-la theory
- lambda (n.) (λ)
- Lambek calculus
- lamina (n.)
- laminal (adj.)
- lamino- (adj.)
- landing site
- langage /lãga/ (n.)
- language (n.)
- language acquisition device
- language areas
- language attitudes
- language attrition
- language awareness
- language centers/centres
- language change
- language contact
- language death
- language diffusion
- language documentation
- language engineering
- language family
- language isolate
- language learning
- language loss
- language loyalty
- language maintenance
- language minority
- language of thought
- language pathology
- language pedagogy
- language planning
- language policy
- language processing
- language revitalization program (me)
- language shift
- language socialization
- language spread
- language treatment
- language universals
- langue /lãg/ (n.)
- laryngealized (adj.), laryngealization (n.)
- laryngogram, laryngograph(y) (n.)
- larynx (n.)
- last-cyclic rules
- last resort
- latent consonant
- lateral (adj./n.)
- lattice (n.)
- LAW (N.)
- lax (adj.)
- Layer (N.)
- layering (n.)
- lazy pronoun
- lead (n.)
- leaf node
- learnability (n.)
- Learning (N.)
- Learning Theory
- least effort
- lect (n.)
- left-associative grammar
- left-branching (adj.)
- left dislocation
- left-headed foot
- left-linear grammar
- leftness principle
- Left-recursive (adj.)
- left-to-right coarticulation
- lemma (n.)
- length (n.)
- lenis (adj.)
- lenite (v.)
- lenition (n.)
- lento (adj.)
- level (n.)
- levelling (n.)
- level-skipping (n.)
- level stress/tone
- lexeme (n.)
- lexical (adj.)
- lexical access
- lexical ambiguity
- lexical array
- lexical cycle
- lexical density
- lexical diffusion
- lexical entry
- lexical-functional grammar (LFG)
- lexicalist (adj./n.)
- lexical item
- lexicalize (v.)
- lexical minimality
- lexical morpheme
- lexical noun phrase
- lexical phonology (LP)
- lexical phrase
- lexical representation language
- lexical retrieval
- lexical storage
- lexical stress
- lexical tone
- lexical verb
- lexicography (n.)
- lexicology (n.)
- lexicon (n.)
- lexicon optimization
- lexicostatistics (n.)
- lexis (n.)
- lexotactics (n.)
- LF-convergence
- liaison (n.)
- licensed extrasyllabicity
- licensing (n.)
- light syllable
- light verb
- line (n.)
- linear correspondence axiom
- linear grammar
- linearity (n.)
- linear phonology
- linear precedence rule (LP rule)
- linear prediction
- lingua franca
- lingual (adj.)
- linguist (n.)
- linguistic (adj.)
- linguistically significant generalization
- linguistic anthropology
- linguistic area
- linguistic atlas
- linguistic determinism
- linguistic environment
- linguistic form
- linguistic geography
- linguistic historiography
- linguistician (n.)
- linguistic minority
- linguistic philosophy
- linguistic relativity
- linguistics (n.)
- linguistic science(s)
- linguistic sign
- linguistic substrate
- linguistic superstratum
- linguistic variable
- link (n.)
- linking (adj./n.)
- linking verb
- LIPOC
- lip-rounding
- liquid (n.)
- listeme (n.)
- literacy (n.)
- literary pragmatics
- literary stylistics
- little pro
- little v
- l-marking (n.)
- loan (n.)
- local (adj.)
- localism (n.)
- locality (n.)
- local tree
- location (n.)
- locative (adj./n.) (loc, LOC)
- locus (n.)
- locutionary (adj.)
- logical consequence
- logical constant
- logical form (LF)
- logical truth
- logocentrism (n.)
- logogram (n.)
- logograph (n.)
- logophoric (adj.)
- London School
- long (adj.)
- long-distance dependency
- longitudinal (adj.)
- loopback
- loss (n.)
- loudness (n.)
- low (adj.)
- lower category
- lowering (n.)
- low tone
- loyalty (n.)
- LP rule
- ludic (adj.)
- ludling (n.)
- M
- macrolinguistics
- macroparadigm (n.)
- macro-phylum (n.)
- macro-role
- macrosociolinguistics (n.)
- main (adj.)
- maintenance (n.)
- major (adj.)
- major class feature
- mandibular setting
- manifestation (n.)
- manner (n.)
- manner adverb(ial)
- manner maxim
- manner of discourse
- map (v.)
- mapping (n.)
- marginal auxiliary
- marginally acceptable
- margins
- markedness (n.)
- marker (n.)
- Markov process
- masculine (adj.)
- mass (adj.)
- matched guise
- matching (n.)
- material biconditional
- material conditional
- mathematical linguistics
- matrix (n.)
- maximal-command (v.)
- maximality (n.) (MAX)
- maximal onset principle
- maxims of conversation
- McGurk effect
- m-command
- meaning (n.)
- meaning-changing/meaning-preserving
- meaning construction
- meaning postulate
- mean length of utterance (MLU)
- medial (adj.) (med)
- medium (n.)
- mel (n.)
- mellow (adj.)
- Melodic tier
- mentalese (n.)
- mentalism (n.)
- mental lexicon
- mental spaces
- mereology (n.)
- merge (n.)
- merger (n.)
- meronymy (n.)
- mesolect (n.)
- metadiscourse (n.)
- metagrammar (n.)
- metalanguage (n.)
- metalinguistic (adj.)
- metanalysis (n.)
- metaphony (n.)
- metaphor (n.)
- metarule (n.)
- metathesis (n.)
- metonymy (n.)
- metric (n.)
- metrical grid
- metrical phonology (MP)
- metrics (n.)
- metropolitanization (n.)
- microlinguistics (n.)
- microsociolinguistics (n.)
- mid (adj.)
- middle voice
- mimetic
- minimal-distance principle (MDP)
- minimal free form
- minimalist programme/program (MP)
- minimality (n.)
- minimal link condition
- minimal pair
- minimal set
- minor (adj.)
- minority language
- misderivation (n.)
- mismatch (n.)
- misrelated participle
- mistake (n.)
- MIT
- mixing (n.)
- M-level (n.)
- MLU
- modal (adj.)
- modal auxiliary/verb
- modal base
- modality (n.)
- modal subordination
- mode (n.)
- model (n./v.)
- model-theoretic semantics
- modification (n.)
- modifier (n.)
- modularity (n.)
- modulation (n.)
- module (n.)
- monadic (adj.)
- mono-
- monogenesis (n.)
- monolingual (adj./n.)
- monomoraic (adj.)
- monomorphemic (adj.)
- monophthong (n.)
- monosemy (n.)
- monostratal (adj.)
- monosyllabic (adj.)
- monosystemic (adj.)
- monotone (n.)
- monotransitive (adj.)
- monovalent (n.)
- Montague grammar
- mood (n.)
- mora (n.)
- moribund (adj.)
- morph (n.)
- morpheme (n.)
- morpheme-based morphology
- morpheme-structure rules/conditions
- morphemic alternant, morphemic variant, morphemics (n.)
- morphology (n.)
- Morphological
- morphonology, morphophonology (n.)
- morphophoneme (n.)
- morphophonemics (n.)
- morphophonology (n.)
- morphosyntactic (adj.)
- morphotactics (n.)
- mot (n.) /m/ (M)
- mother (n.)
- motherese (n.)
- mother-in-law languages
- motor theory
- move alpha (α)
- movement (n.)
- mu (μ)
- multidimensional scaling
- multilateral (adj.)
- multilingual (adj./n.)
- multilinked (adj.)
- multiple wh-question
- multiplex network
- multiply ambiguous
- multisyllabic (adj.)
- multi-valued feature
- murmur (n.)
- mutate (v.)
- mutation (n.)
- mutual bleeding
- mutual intelligibility
- N
- narrative (adj./n.)
- narratology (n.)
- narrow (adj.)
- narrowing (n.)
- n-ary feature
- nasal (adj.)
- nasalize (v.), nasalization (n.)
- native-speaker (n.)
- nativism
- nativist hypothesis
- natural class
- natural gender
- natural generative phonology (NGP)
- natural-kind terms
- natural language processing (NLP)
- natural morphology
- naturalness (n.)
- natural order hypothesis
- natural phonology
- negation (n.)
- negative concord
- negative face
- negative transfer
- neighbourhood (n.)
- neo-Davidsonian (adj.)
- neo-Firthian (adj.)
- neogrammarian (adj./n.)
- neologism (n.)
- nesting (n.)
- network (n.)
- Network English
- network grammar
- Network Standard
- neural network
- neural program
- neurolinguistics (n.)
- neurological linguistics
- neuter (adj.)
- neutral (adj.)
- neutralization (n.)
- new (adj.)
- New Englishes
- nexus (n.), (plural nexi)
- NOCODA
- no-crossing constraint (NCC)
- node (n.)
- noise (n.)
- nominal (adj./n.) (nom, NOM)
- nominalization (n.)
- nominalizer (n.)
- nominative (adj./n.) (nom, NOM)
- non-affixal morphology
- non-agentive (adj./n.)
- non-anterior (adj.)
- non-areal (adj.)
- non-back (adj.)
- non-branching (adj.)
- non-breathy (adj.)
- non-bridge verbs
- non-causative (adj.)
- nonce (adj.)
- non-collective (adj.)
- non-configurational languages
- non-consonantal (adj.)
- non-contiguous
- non-continuant (adj./n.)
- non-continuous (adj.)
- non-conventional implieature
- non-co-referential (adj.)
- non-core rule
- non-coronal (adj.)
- non-count(able) (adj.)
- non-covered (adj.)
- non-defining (adj.)
- non-definite (adj.)
- non-derivational (adj.)
- non-discrete (adj.)
- non-discrete grammar
- non-distributed (adj.)
- non-echo (n.)
- non-equivalent (adj.)
- non-factive (adj.)
- non-favourite (adj.)
- non-finite (adj.)
- non-headed (adj.)
- non-high (adj.)
- non-iterative (adj.)
- non-lateral (adj.)
- non-linear phonology
- non-low (adj.)
- non-native varieties
- non-palatalized (adj.)
- non-perfective (adj.)
- non-phonemic phonology
- non-predicative (adj.)
- non-primitive (adj.)
- non-pro-drop (adj.)
- non-productive (adj.)
- non-progressive (adj.)
- non-restrictive (adj.)
- non-rhotic (adj.)
- non-rounded (adj.)
- non-segmental (adj./n.)
- nonsense (n.)
- non-sexist language
- non-sibilant (adj./n.)
- non-sonorant (adj./n.)
- non-sortal (adj.)
- non-standard (adj.)
- non-strident (adj.)
- non-tense (adj.)
- non-term (adj.)
- non-terminal (adj.)
- non-transformational grammar
- non-verbal communication
- non-vocalic (adj.)
- non-voiced (adj.)
- non-volition (adj.)
- no-ordering condition
- norm (n.)
- normalization (n.)
- normative (adj.)
- notation (n.)
- notional (adj.)
- noun (n.) (n, N)
- noun incorporation
- noun phrase
- NP-movement (n.)
- NP (noun phrase)
- Nuclear English
- nuclear predication
- nuclear scope
- nuclear stress/tone
- nucleus (n.)
- null (adj.)
- number (n.) (NUM)
- numeration (n.)
- n-valued feature
- O
- object (n.) (O, Obj, OBJ)
- objective case
- objective genitive
- object language
- object-raising (n.)
- obligatory (adj.)
- obligatory contour principle (OCP)
- oblique (adj.) (obl, OBL)
- observational adequacy
- observer's paradox
- obsolescence (n.)
- obsolete (adj.)
- obstruent (adj./n.)
- obviative (adj./n.)
- occlude (V.)
- occlusion (n.)
- occupational dialect
- oesophageal (adj.)
- off-glide/on-glide (n.)
- offset (n.)
- omega (ω) (n.)
- on-glide (n.)
- onomasiology (n.)
- onomastics (n.)
- onomatology (n.)
- onset (n.)
- ontogeny (n.)
- opacity (n.)
- opaque (adj.)
- open (adj.)
- open class
- operation (n.)
- operator (n.)
- oppositeness (n.)
- opposition (n.)
- optative (adj./n.)
- optimal (adj.)
- optimality theory (OT)
- optional (adj.)
- oracy (n.)
- oral (adj.)
- order (n./v.)
- order of mention
- ordinal (adj./n.)
- organs of speech
- orphan node
- orthoepy /θIpi/ (n.)
- other-repair (n.)
- OT perspective
- output (n.)
- output-output constraints
- overcorrection (n.)
- overextension (n.)
- overgeneralization (n.)
- overgeneration (n.)
- overlapping (n.)
- overt (adj.)
- overtone (n.)
- P
- palatal (adj.)
- Palatalization
- palate (n.)
- palato-alveolar (adj.)
- palatograph (n.)
- pandialectal (adj.)
- panlectal (adj.)
- paradigmatic (adj.)
- paradox (n.)
- paragrammatism (n.)
- paralanguage (n.)
- parallel distributed processing
- parameter (n.)
- parametric phonetics
- paraphrase (n.)
- parasite vowel
- parasitic gap
- paratactic (adj.)
- paratone (n.)
- parenthesis notation
- parent language
- parole (n.) /parDl/
- paronymy (n.)
- parse, parser (n./v.)(n.)
- parse tree
- parsing (n.)
- part (n.)
- partial assimilation
- partial conversion
- participant role
- participle (n.) (P, part, PART)
- particle (n.) (part, PART, Prt, PRT)
- particle phonology
- partitive (adj./n.) (part, PART)
- part of speech
- passive (n.)
- passive knowledge
- passive vocabulary
- past anterior
- past definite
- past historic
- past participle
- past perfect
- past tense
- path (n.)
- pathology (n.)
- patient (n.) (P)
- pattern (n.)
- paucal (adj.)
- pause (n.)
- paycheck sentence
- peace linguistics
- peak (adj./n.)
- pedagogical grammar
- pedagogical linguistics
- pejoration (n.)
- percentage symbol (%)
- perception (n.)
- percolation (n.)
- perfect (adj./n.) (perf, PERF, PF)
- perfect grid
- perfective (adj./n.)
- performance (n.)
- performative (adj./n.)
- period (n.)
- periodicity (n.)
- peripheral (adj.)
- periphrasis (n.)
- perlocutionary (adj.)
- permutation (n.)
- perseveration (n.)
- perseverative/perseveratory coarticulation
- person (n.) (per, PER)
- PF-convergence
- p-fix (n.)
- phantom segment
- pharyngeal (adj./n.)
- pharynx (n.)
- phase (n.)
- phatic communion
- phi features (φ)
- philology (n.)
- philosophical linguistics
- philosophical semantics
- phonaesthetics (n.)
- phonation (n.)
- phonatory setting
- phone (n.)
- phonematic unit
- phoneme (n.)
- phonemoid (n.)
- phonestheme, phonesthesia, phonesthetics (n.)
- phonetically consistent form (PCF)
- phonetic alphabet
- phonetic form (PF)
- phonetic gesture
- phonetician (n.)
- phonetics (n.)
- Phonetic
- phonetic setting
- phonetic transcription
- phonetic variant
- phonic (adj.)
- phonic substance
- phonogram (n.)
- phonography (n.)
- phonological form
- phonological scaling
- phonological space
- phonologization (n.)
- phonology (n.)
- phonostylistics (n.)
- phonotactics (n.)
- photoglottograph (n.)
- phrasal verb
- phrase (n.) (P)
- phrase edge prominence constraint
- phrase-marker (n.) (PM)
- phrase-structure grammar (PSG)
- phylogeny (n.)
- phylum (n.)
- physiological phonetics
- piagetian
- pictogram (n.)
- pictograph (n.)
- pictography (n.)
- pidgin (n.)
- pied piping
- pitch (n.)
- pitch meter
- pivot (n.)
- place (n.)
- placeless (adj.)
- plain (adj.)
- planar phonology
- plane (n.)
- planning (n.)
- plasticity (n.)
- plateauing (n.)
- pleonasm (n.)
- pleonastic (adj.)
- plereme (n.)
- plethysmograph (n.)
- P-level (n.)
- plosive (adj./n.)
- pluperfect (adj./n.)
- plural (adj./n.)
- pluralia tantum /plrlIa tantm/
- pluricentric (adj.)
- plurilingualism (n.)
- plurisegmental (adj./n.)
- plus juncture
- pneumotachograph (n.)
- poetic metaphor
- poetics (n.)
- point of speech/reference/the event
- polarity (n.)
- politeness phenomena
- poly-
- polyadie (adj.)
- polygenesis, polygenetic (n.) (adj.)
- polylectal (adj.)
- polymorphemic (adj.)
- polysemy (n.)
- polysyllable (n.)
- polysynthetic (adj.)
- polysystemicism (n.)
- polyvalent (adj.)
- pooh-pooh theory
- popular etymology
- portmanteau (adj./n.)
- Port Royal
- position (n.)
- positional faithfulness/markedness
- positional mobility
- positive (adj.)
- positive face
- possession (n.)
- possessive compound
- possessive pronoun
- possible-worlds semantics
- post-
- post-alveolar (adj.)
- post-aspiration (n.)
- post-creole continuum
- post-cyclic (adj.)
- post-dental (adj.)
- postdeterminer (n.)
- post-lexical (adj.)
- postmodification (n.)
- post-nasal (adj.)
- postposition (n.)
- post-structuralism (n.)
- postulate (n.)
- postures (n.)
- postvocalic (adj.)
- potential lexicon
- potential pause
- potential word
- poverty of the stimulus
- power (n.)
- pragmalinguistics (n.)
- pragmatics (n.)
- Prague School
- pre-
- pre-aspiration (n.)
- precedence (n.)
- pre-cyclic(al) (adj.)
- predeterminer (n.)
- predicate (n.) (pred)
- predicate calculus
- predicate frame
- predication (n.)
- predication theory
- predicative, predicator (adj.) (n.)
- prefabricated language
- preferred argument structure
- prefix (n.)
- pre-head (n.)
- prehodiernal (adj.)
- pre-lexical (adj.)
- prelinguistic (adj.)
- prelinguistics (n.)
- premodification (n.)
- pre-nasal, pre-nasalized (adj.)
- preparatory conditions
- preparatory it
- preposing (n.)
- preposition (n.) (P, pr, prep, PREP)
- prerequisites (n.)
- prescriptive (adj.)
- present participle
- present tense (pres, PRES)
- prespecification (n.)
- pressure (adj.)
- presupposition (n.)
- preterite (adj./n.)
- prevarication (n.)
- prevocalic (adj.)
- primary articulation
- primary cardinal vowels
- primary linguistic data
- primary response
- primary stress
- primary vowels
- priming (n.)
- primitive (adj./n.)
- principal parts
- principles (n.)
- privative (adj.)
- privileges of occurrence
- pro (n.)
- PRO (n.)
- probe (n.)
- procedural grammar
- procedural semantics
- procedure (n.)
- process (n.)
- processing (n.)
- proclisis, proclitic (n.)
- pro-constituent (n.)
- procrastination (n.)
- pro-drop (adj.)
- product (n.)
- production (n.)
- productivity (n.)
- pro-form (n.)
- progressive (adj./n.) (prog)
- projection (n.)
- prominent (adj.)
- promotion (n.)
- pronominalization (n.)
- pronoun (n.) (pro, PRO, pron)
- prop (adj.)
- proper (adj.)
- proportional (adj.)
- proposition (n.)
- propositional attitude
- propositional calculus
- proscriptive (adj.)
- prosodeme (n.)
- prosodic bootstrapping
- prosodic phonology
- prosody (n.)
- protasis (n.) /prDtsIs/
- prothesis (n.)
- proto-
- proto-role
- prototype (n.)
- proto-word (n.)
- proxemics (n.)
- pseudo-cleft sentence
- pseudo-intransitive (adj./n.)
- pseudo-passive (adj./n.)
- pseudo-procedure (n.)
- psych (adj.)
- psycholexicology (n.)
- psycholinguistics (n.)
- psychological reality
- pulmonic (adj.)
- pulse theory
- punctual (adj.) (punct)
- pure tone
- pure vowel
- purism (n.)
- push chain
- Q
- qualia structure
- qualification (n.)
- quality (n.)
- quantal theory
- quantifier (n.) (Q)
- quantitative linguistics
- quantity (n.)
- quantity sensitivity
- quantum (n.)
- question (n.) (Q)
- Quirk grammar
- quotative (n.)
- R
- radical
- radical pro-drop
- radical underspecification
- raising (n.)
- rank (n.)
- rate (n.)
- rationalism
- r-colouring (n.)
- readjustment rules
- realis /rIlIs/ (adj.)
- realistic grammar
- realization (n.)
- reanalysis (n.)
- reassociation (n.)
- recategorization (n.)
- received pronunciation (RP)
- recessive (adj.)
- recipient (n.)
- recipient language
- reciprocal (adj.)
- recognition (n.)
- reconstruction (n.)
- recoverability (n.)
- recreolization (n.)
- recursive (adj.)
- recursively enumerable
- reduce (v.)
- reduction (n.)
- redundancy (n.)
- reduplication (n.) (red, redup)
- reference (n.)
- reference grammar
- reference time
- referent (n.)
- referential (adj.)
- referential indices
- referential opacity
- referring-expression (n.)
- reflectiveness (n.)
- reflexive (adj./n.) (refl, REFL, reflex)
- reflexiveness (n.)
- reflexivity (n.)
- regional accent
- regional dialect
- register (n.)
- register tone language
- regressive (adj.)
- regular (adj.)
- regular grammar
- Reichenbachian (adj.)
- reiteration (n.)
- relation (n.)
- relational expression
- relational grammar (RG)
- relative (adj./n.)
- relative UTAH
- relativity (n.)
- relativized minimality
- release (n./v.)
- relevance theory
- relexification (n.)
- relic area
- remote structure
- renewal of connection
- reordering (adj./n.)
- repair (n./v.)
- repertoire (n.)
- replacive (adj./n.)
- reported speech
- representation (n.)
- representative (adj./n.)
- resonance (n.)
- resonant (n.)
- restricted (adj.)
- restricted language
- restrictive (adj.)
- restructuring (n.)
- result (adj.)
- resumptive (adj.)
- resyllabify (v.)
- retraction (n.)
- retroflex (adj.)
- reversal (n.)
- reversible (adj.)
- revised extended standard theory (REST)
- rewrite rule
- R-expression (n.)
- rheme (n.)
- rhetoric (n.)
- rhetorical question
- rhotacization (n.)
- rhotic (adj.)
- rhyme (n.)
- rhythm (n.)
- rhythm rule
- richness of the base
- right-branching (adj.)
- right dislocation
- right-headed foot
- right-linear grammar
- right node raising (RNR)
- right-recursive (adj.)
- right-to-left coarticulation
- rim (n.)
- rime (n.)
- rising (adj./n.)
- role (n.)
- role and reference grammar (RRG)
- roll (n.)
- root (adj./n.)
- root-and-pattern
- round brackets
- rounding (n.)
- routine (adj./n.)
- RP
- rule (n.)
- rule features
- rule-ordering paradox
- rule-to-rule (adj.)
- S
- S′
- SAAD
- sandhi /sandi/ (adj./n.)
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- satellite (n.)
- satem language /stm/
- satisfaction (n.)
- saturation (n.)
- Saussurean/Saussurian (adj./n.)
- SC
- scalar expressions
- scale-and-category grammar
- scansion (n.)
- schema (n.), plural schemata
- schwa/shwa /∫w/ (n.)
- scope (n.)
- scrambling (n.)
- script (n.)
- S′-deletion
- secondary aperture
- secondary articulation
- secondary cardinal vowels
- secondary response
- secondary stress
- secondary vowels
- second language
- second person
- segment (n.)
- segmental tier
- segmentator (n.)
- segmented discourse representation theory
- selectional feature/restriction/rule
- selective listening
- self-embedding (adj./n.)
- self-repair (n.)
- semantic component
- semantic differential
- semantic feature
- semantic field
- semanticity (n.)
- semantic meaning
- semantic prosody
- semantic relations
- semantic role
- semantics (n.)
- semantic selection
- semantic triangle
- semantic value
- semasiology (n.)
- seme (n.)
- semeiology, semeiotics (n.)
- semelfactive (adj./n.)
- sememe (n.)
- semi-auxiliary (adj./n.)
- semi-consonant (n.)
- semilattice (n.)
- semilingual (adj./n.)
- semiotics (n.)
- semi-passive (n.)
- semi-productive (adj.)
- semi-sentence (n.)
- semi-vowel (n.)
- semology (n.)
- semotactics (n.)
- sense (n.)
- sense association
- sensitivity (n.)
- sentence (n.)
- sentence accent
- sentence adverb
- sentence length
- sentence prosody
- sentence stress
- sentential relative clause
- sequence (n.)
- serial relationship
- serial verb
- series (n.)
- set (n.)
- set expression
- setting (n.)
- s-fix (n.)
- shadow pronoun
- shallow (adj.)
- shared constituent co-ordination
- sharp (adj.)
- sharp stratification
- shell
- shift (n.)
- short (adj.)
- shortest move
- shwa (n.)
- sibilant (adj./n.)
- sight translation
- sign (n.)
- signifiant, significans, signification, significatum /sIgnIfIã/ (n.)
- significant (adj.)
- significs (n.)
- signifié, signified, signifier /sIgnIfIe/(n.)
- silent pause
- silent stress
- simple (adj.)
- simple transition network
- simplicity (n.)
- simultaneous bilingualism
- simultaneous interpretation/translation
- sincerity conditions
- single-bar (adj./n.)
- single-bar juncture
- single-base (adj.)
- single-feature assimilation
- sing-song theory
- singular (adj./n.)
- singulary (adj.)
- sister (adj./n.)
- sister-adjunction (n.)
- sister-dependency (n.)
- sister language
- situation (n.)
- situation semantics
- skeletal tier
- skeleton (n.)
- Skolem function
- slash (n.)
- slip of the tongue
- slit (adj.)
- sloppy identity
- slot (n.)
- sluicing (n.)
- small clause (SC)
- social accent
- social deixis
- social dialectology
- social function
- social-interactionism (n.)
- social stratification
- sociohistorical linguistics
- sociolect (n.)
- sociolinguistics (n.)
- sociological linguistics, sociology of language
- sociophonetics, sociophonology, sociosemantics (n.)
- sociopragmatics (n.)
- soft consonant
- soft palate
- soft sign
- sonagraph (n.)
- sonorant (adj./n.) (son)
- sonority (n.)
- sortal (adj.)
- sound change/law/shift
- sound spectrograph
- sound-symbolism (n.)
- sound system
- source (adj./n.)
- space grammar
- span (n.)
- sparse neighbourhood
- speaker identification/recognition/verification
- specialization (n.)
- specification (n.)
- specific definite
- specific indefinite
- specified-subject condition
- specifier (n.) (spec, Spec)
- spectrograph (n.)
- spectrum (n.)
- speech (n.)
- speech act
- speech and hearing science
- speech chain
- speech community
- speech event
- speech perception
- speech processing
- speech production
- speech recognition
- speech science(s)
- speech stretcher
- speech surrogate
- speech synthesis
- speech time
- speed (n.)
- spell-out (n.)
- spike (n.)
- spirant (adj./n.)
- split antecedent
- split ergative
- split infinitive
- split morphology
- splitting (n.)
- spoken medium
- Sprachbund /∫prxbnt/ (n.)
- Sprachgefühl /∫prxgfyl/ (n.)
- spread (n.)
- spreading (n.)
- sprouting
- squish (n.)
- s-selection
- S-structure (n.)
- stability (n.)
- stage (n.)
- standard (n.)
- standard English
- standard theory/model
- star (n.)
- starred form
- state (n.)
- state (adj.)
- statement (n.)
- state-transition semantics
- static (adj.)
- statistical linguistics
- statistical universal
- stative (adj./n.)
- status planning
- stem (n.)
- stereotype (n.)
- stimulus (n.)
- stock (n.)
- stop (n.)
- storage
- stranding (n.)
- stratification (n.)
- stray (adj.)
- strength (n.)
- stress (n.)
- stress-foot, stress group (n.)
- stress-timed (adj.)
- strict cycle condition
- strict identity
- strict sub-categorization
- stricture (n.)
- stridency (n.)
- strident (adj.)
- string (n.)
- strong (adj.)
- strong adequacy
- strong form
- strong generative capacity
- strong generative power
- strong verb
- structural (adj.)
- structural ambiguity
- Structural Analysis
- structural Case
- structural change (SC)
- structural description (SD)
- structural dialectology
- structuralism (n.)
- structural semantics
- structural word
- structure (n.)
- structure dependency
- structure index
- structure preservation
- structure tree
- style (n.)
- stylistics (n.)
- stylometry, stylostatistics (n.)
- sub-array
- sub-categorization (n.)
- sub-component (n.)
- sub-family (n.)
- subgenre (n.)
- subgesture (n.)
- sub-group (n.)
- subjacency (n.)
- subject (n.)
- subjective (adj.)
- subjective case
- subjective genitive
- subject-raising (n.)
- subjunct (n.)
- subjunctive (n.)
- sublanguage (n.)
- submorpheme (n.)
- subordinating conjunction
- subordination (n.)
- subordinator (n.)
- sub-phonemic variant
- subsegment (n.)
- substance (n.)
- substandard (adj.)
- substantive (n.)
- substitution (n.)
- substrate (n.)
- substratum (n.)
- substring (n.)
- subtractive bilingualism
- subtree (n.)
- subtype (n.)
- successive cyclic analysis
- suction (adj.)
- suffix (n.)
- sum (n.)
- Summer Institute of Linguistics
- superfix (n.)
- superfoot (n.)
- superheavy syllable
- superiority (n.)
- superlative (adj./n.)
- superordinate (adj.)
- superstratum (n.)
- supertype (n.)
- supervaluation (n.)
- supplementary movements
- suppletion (n.)
- suppletive (n.)
- suprafix (n.)
- supraglottal (adj.)
- suprasegmental (adj./n.)
- surface grammar
- surface structure
- surrogate (n.)
- sustained juncture
- svarabhakti vowel
- switching (n.)
- switch reference
- syllable (n.) (syll)
- syllable-timed (adj.)
- symbol (n.)
- symbolic (adj.)
- sympathetic constraints
- sympathy (n.)
- synaesthesia/synesthesia (n.)
- synchronic (adj.)
- syncope /'sIŋkpi/ (n.)
- syncretism (n.)
- syndeton (n.)
- synonymy (n.)
- syntactic blend
- syntactic frame
- syntactic function
- syntactics (n.)
- syntagm, syntagma (n.)
- syntagmatic (adj.)
- syntagmeme (n.)
- syntax (n.)
- synthesis (n.)
- synthetic (adj.)
- system (n.)
- system architecture
- systematic phonemics
- systematic phonetics
- systemic grammar
- system-structure
- T
- T
- tableau, tableaux (n.), plural (n.)
- taboo languages
- tacit (adj.)
- tactic, tactics (adj.), (n.)
- tag (adj./n.)
- tagma, tagmatics (n.)
- tagmemics (n.)
- tail (n.)
- tamber, tambre (n.)
- tap (n.)
- target (n.)
- ta-ta theory
- tautosyllabic (adj.)
- taxeme (n.)
- taxis (n.)
- taxonomic (adj.)
- teaching grammar
- telegrammatic speech
- telegraphic speech
- telic (adj.)
- template (n.)
- tempo (n.)
- temporal dialect
- tenor (n.)
- tense (adj./n.)
- tensed (adj.)
- tension (n.)
- term (adj./n.)
- terminal (adj.)
- terminal analogs
- terminal juncture
- terminal node
- terminal set
- terminal string/symbol
- termination (n.)
- term of address
- tertiary response
- tertiary stress
- tessitura (n.)
- test (n.)
- text (n.)
- text deixis
- textlinguistics (n.)
- text-to-speech (adj.)
- textuality, texture (n.)
- T forms
- thematic, thematization (adj.), (n.)
- thematic role
- theme (n.)
- theolinguistics (n.)
- theorem (n.)
- theoretical grammar
- theoretical linguistics
- theor (n.)
- theory of mind
- there-insertion
- theta role
- theta theory
- third person
- thirteen men rule
- tier (n.)
- timbre (n.)
- timing (adj./n.)
- tip (n.)
- tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
- to-infinitive (n.)
- token (n.)
- tonal geometry
- tonality (n.)
- tonal polarity
- tone (n.)
- tone group
- tone language
- toneme, tonemics (n.)
- tone sandhi
- tonetics (n.)
- tone unit
- tongue (n.)
- tongue-slip (n.)
- tonic (adj./n.)
- tonogenesis (n.)
- tonology (n.)
- top-down (adj.)
- topic (n.)
- topicalization (n.)
- toponomastics, toponymy (n.)
- total accountability
- total assimilation
- tough movement
- trace (n.) (t)
- trade language
- traditional (adj.)
- transcription (n.)
- transfer (n.)
- transform (n.)
- transformation (n.) (T)
- transformational cycle
- transformational grammar
- transient (n.)
- transition (n.)
- transitional area
- transition function
- transition network grammar
- transitivity (n.)
- translatology (n.)
- transliteration (n.)
- transparent (adj.)
- transplanar locality
- tree (n.)
- treebank (n.),
- tree-only phonology
- triadic (adj.)
- trial (adj./n.)
- triangle (n.)
- trickling (n.)
- trigger (n.)
- triglossia (n.)
- trigraph (n.)
- trill (n.)
- tripartite (adj.)
- triphthong (n.)
- trisyllable (n.)
- trivalent (adj.)
- trochee (n.)
- troponymy (n.)
- trough (n.)
- true generalization condition
- T rule (n.)
- truncation (n.)
- truth-conditional semantics
- truth conditions
- truth functional
- truth value
- Turing machine
- turn (n.)
- turn-taking (n.)
- type (n.)
- Type
- typed feature structure language
- type shifting
- type-theoretic grammar
- type/token ratio
- typological linguistics
- U
- ultimate constituent (UC)
- ultrafilter (n.)
- umlaut (n.)
- unaccented (adj.)
- unacceptable (adj.)
- unaccusative (adj./n.)
- unanalysable (adj.)
- unary (adj.)
- unassociated (adj.)
- unbounded dependency
- unchecked (adj.)
- uncontrolled PRO
- uncountable (adj.)
- underextension (n.)
- underlying (adj.)
- underspecification (n.)
- unfooted (adj.)
- ungoverned (adj.)
- ungradable (adj.)
- ungraded antonyms
- ungrammatical (adj.)
- unification (n.)
- unified features
- uniformitarian principle
- uniformity of theta-role assignment hypothesis (UTAH)
- unilateral (adj.)
- uninterruptibility (n.)
- uniplex network
- unit (n.)
- unit noun
- universal (adj./n.)
- universal grammar
- universal grinder
- universal locality condition
- universal quantifier
- universe of discourse
- univocality (n.)
- unmarked (adj.)
- unproductive (adj.)
- unrounded (adj.)
- unstressed (adj.)
- unsyllabified (adj.)
- untensed (adj.)
- unvoiced (adj.)
- update semantics
- upward entailing
- urban dialectology
- usage (n.)
- UTAH
- utterance (n.)
- uvular (adj.)
- V
- V
- vagueness (n.)
- valency (n.)
- valent (n.)
- valid (adj.)
- valley (n.)
- value (n.)
- variable (adj./n.)
- variable binding operator
- variant (adj./n.)
- variation (n.)
- variety (n.)
- velar (adj./n.)
- Velarization
- velaric (adj.)
- velum (n.)
- ventricular (adj.)
- verb (v.) (v, V)
- verbal duelling
- verbal group, verbal cluster
- verbal v. non-verbal communication
- verbal play
- verbless (adj.)
- verb phrase
- verb second (V2)
- vernacular (adj./n.)
- Verner's law
- vertical grouping/splitting
- V forms
- via /vaI/ (adj.)
- violation (n.)
- visibility (n.)
- visual sonority
- vocable (n.)
- vocabulary (n.)
- vocal-auditory channel
- vocal bands
- vocal cords
- vocal folds
- vocal fry
- vocalic (adj.)(voc)
- vocalization (n.)
- vocal lips
- vocal organs
- vocal qualifier
- vocal tract
- vocative (adj./n.)
- vocoid (n.)
- voice (n.)
- voiced (adj.)
- voice dynamics
- voiceless (adj.)
- voice-onset time (VOT)
- voiceprint (n)
- voice qualifier
- voice quality
- voice recognition
- voice set
- voicing (n.)
- voicing lag
- voicing lag
- volition (n.)
- vowel (n.)(V)
- vowel gradation
- vowel harmony
- vowel quadrilateral
- vowel shift
- VP-internal subject hypothesis
- V-place (n.)
- VP shell
- V-slot (n.)
- W
- W
- wanna-contraction (n.)
- wave (n.)
- weak (segments) (adj.)
- weak (syllables) (adj.)
- weak adequacy
- weak form
- weak generative capacity
- weak generative power
- weak stress
- weak verb
- weather it
- weight (n.)
- well formed (adj.)
- wh-
- whistle-speech (n.)
- whiz-deletion (n.)
- Whorfian (adj./n.)
- wh-trace (n.)
- wide (adj.)
- window (n.)
- W-level (n.)
- word (n.)
- word accent
- word and paradigm (WP)
- word association
- word-based morphology
- word-class (n.)
- word-ending (n.)
- word-finding problem
- word-formation (n.)
- word grammar (WG)
- word-order (n.)
- word stress
- w-star languages
- wugs (n.)
- X
- X-bar (adj./n.)
- X-tier (n.)
- Y
- yer (n.)
- yes-no question (y/n)
- yo-ho-ho theory
- Z
- zero (adj./n.)
- zero quotative
- zero resonance (n.)
- zoösemiotics (n.)