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• AND node
  ...in neurocognitive linguistics)|node]] in relational network notation. The AND node takes two forms, both of which are defined in this article: * The ''AND node'' of [[compact relational network notation]].
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• Theme and rheme
  ...re terms used widely by 20th century European structuralists for [[topic]] and [[focus]]. The term pair was made widely known by the work of [[Vilém Mathesius]] and others in the [[Prague School]], in the first systematic attempt of studyin
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• Role and Reference Grammar
  ...in (1984), Van Valin (ed.) 1993, Van Valin & LaPolla 1997, Van Valin 2005, and Pavey 2010. ...p://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/vanvalin/rrg.html Official Role and Reference Grammar website]
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• Principles and Parameters framework
  ...f subsystems of principles, each with one or more parameters of variation, and grammars of particular languages to be determined by fixing parameters in t [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Principles+and+Parameters+framework&lemmacode=434 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Portal:Tense and aspect
  ...ite">This portal presents the most central topics in the study of<br>tense and aspect.</font> ...(1947)]] -- [[Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense|Huddleston and Pullum (2002)]]
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...se two extremes. The borders between the categories of ambiguity, polysemy and vagueness are fuzzy. Thus, there are lexical examples that can be assigned ...multiple interpretations. In natural language many words, strings of words and sentences are ambiguous, simply because of the fact that numerous words cov
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• Positive and negative face
  ...n individual's public self-image ([[face (concept)]]). Both '''positive''' and '''negative face''' describe the different levels of face needs. ...al's personal desires ('''positive face'''). In order to protect one's own and the adressee's face, one has to take care of both levels.
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• Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
  ...ubject to evolutionary processes in analogy to biological organisms, etc.) and, consequently, in the concepts which form the basis of the disciplines. ...with quantitative methods on the basis of quantitative concepts: features and interrelations which can be expressed only by numbers or rankings.
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• Huddleston and Pullum's (2002) analysis of tense
  .... In "She goes to school" the tense of the verb is present (cf. Huddleston and Pullum 20022: 116). ...her" is a perfect form, whereas "He may know her" is unmarked (Huddleston and Pullum 20022: 116).
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• Role-dominated and reference-dominated languages
  *Foley, William A. & Van Valin, Robert D. Jr. 1980. Role and reference grammar. In: Moravcsik, Edith (ed.) ''Current appproaches to synt
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• De dicto and de re
  The terms ''de re'' (Latin: "about the thing") and ''de dicto'' (Latin: "about what is said") refer to two distinct interpreta ...nce agency is consistently receiving top-secret intelligence information), then (i) would describe Ralph's beliefs ''de dicto'' that somebody is a spy.
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• Portal:Philosophy of language
  == Concepts and Terms == == Models and Methods ==
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• Uralic
  ...rn Asia, neighbouring [[Indo-European]] in the West and South and Tungusic and Turkic in the East. Samoyedic (in the Northeast) and Finnic-Ugric.
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• Portal:Philosophy of linguistics
  '''History and Philosophy of Linguistics''' ...oretical topics in theory construction and theory changing (its historical and epistemological evolution) in linguistics. ==
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• Alexander Melville Bell
  ...logical [[phonetics]] and was the author of numerous works on [[orthoepy]] and [[elocution]]. He developed the notational system of [[Visible Speech]].
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• Semivowel
  ...ch like vowels. When /w/ or /j/ are produced slowly enough, the vowels /u/ and /i/ can be heard. [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
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• Deep dyslexia
  ...rds. Deep dyslexics often use strategies such as [[semantic substitution]] and also substitution of functional words.
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• Accessibility
  ...' if and only if ''i'' is [[c-commanded]] by ''a'' and coindexing of ''a'' and ''i'' would not violate the [[i-within-i condition]]. ...ouns proposed in Higginbotham (1980) which accounts for [[weak crossover]] and [[strong crossover]].
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• Incompatibility
  ...nnot have both properties at the same time (e.g. 'long' and 'short', 'cat' and 'dog'): The term 'imcompatible' is used as both an adjective and a noun, i.e. predicates that are incompatible are also called '[[incompatib
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• Topic-comment-distinction
  ...distinction with the distinction between focus and presupposition or theme and rheme.
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• INFL
  ...en reinterpreted as a conflation of two separate heads [[AGR]] (agreement) and T ([[tense]]). ...on Economy of Derivations and Derivations,'' in:R. Freidin (ed) Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar, 417-454, The MITT Press: Cambridge, Mass
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• Reciprocal
  '''Reciprocal'''s behave as [[anaphor]]s with respect to [[binding theory]], and require a plural antecedent (*''that gang hates each other''). (i) [John and Mary]_ican't stand ''each other''_i
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• Articulators
  ...[[larynx]], the [[vocal folds]], trachea, diaphragma, the lungs, the uvula and the jaw bone. [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
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• Svarabakthi
  An example is the pronunciation of /fil@m/ for 'film' (English and Dutch) and /mel@k/ for 'melk' (Dutch). [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
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• ABX discrimination
  ...two stimuli (A and B) are standard, S1 and S2 in a randomly chosen order, and the subjects’ task is to choose which of the two is matched by the final [[Category: Phonetics and phonology]]
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• Referential index
  ...</sub> '' and ''Mary_i saw John_j '' the subscripts i and j are the referential indices (or indexes). * Chomsky, N. 1981. ''Lectures on Government and Binding,'' Foris, Dordrecht.
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• Eastern Saamic
  ...d the [[Peninsula_Eastern_Saamic|peninsular group]] (with [[Kildin Saami]] and [[Ter Saami]]). *Loss of final vowels in third syllables and (except in Inari) in second syllables.
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• Multicultural London English
  ...tion of British English, it incorporates features of Patois, West African and Indian. ...Kerswill, Sue Fox & Eivind Torgersen. 2008. Ethnicity, Friendship Network and Social Practices as the Motor of Dialect Change: Linguistic Innovation in L
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• Phi-features
  Grammatical features such as [[person]], [[number]], [[gender]] and [[case]]. * Chomsky, N. 1981. ''Lectures on Government and Binding,'' Foris, Dordrecht.
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• Foreignism
  ...eignism can be said to be intermediate between an established loanword and and a [[singly occurring codeswitch]], although the term ''foreignism'' tends t
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• Szasa/Draft
  ...nglish: Exploring the impact of Denglisch and Anglicisms in German culture and identity.<br> Safina, Farida. (2024). "Denglish" The Fusion of German and English. Vol. 2. 286-292.<br>
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• ToBI
  ...are distinctively marked by other phonological means). Because intonation and prosodic organisation differ from language to language, or even from [[dial * Silverman, Beckman, Pitrelli, Ostendorf, Wightman, Price, Pierrehumbert, and Hirschberg 1992. ''ToBI: a standard for labelling English prosody,'' In Pro
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• Superlative
  ...is characteristic of [[adjective]]s, and which opposes to the [[positive]] and [[comparative]]. ...-longest'', the first one is the positive form, the second the comparative and the third the superlative.
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• Phoneme
  In [[phonology]] and [[phonetics]], a '''phoneme''' is a phonological [[segment]] that can disti ...r'') are not two phonemes since they cannot distinguish two words: *[be:t] and *[be.r].
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• Transcription
  ...is added by way of [[diacritic]]s, e.g. aspiration on syllable-initial /p/ and nasalisation on the vowel in the English word 'pin'. * [http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html IPA symbols for broad and narrow transcription]
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• Principles and Parameters framework
  ...f subsystems of principles, each with one or more parameters of variation, and grammars of particular languages to be determined by fixing parameters in t [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Principles+and+Parameters+framework&lemmacode=434 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]
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• Rule feature
  ...th:teeth'' can be accounted for by assuming that the words ''foot, goose'' and ''tooth'', have a rule feature [+U] which triggers the phonological umlaut * Chomsky, N. and M. Halle 1968. ''The Sound Pattern of English,'' Harper and Row, New York.
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• Voiced
  In English [b] and [d] are [+voiced] as opposed to [p] and [t] which are [-voiced], i.e. voiceless. [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
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• Boolesche Anfrage
  ...aussehen: ''Computerlinguistik AND Informatik AND Universität AND Schweiz AND NOT (Genf OR Lausanne)''
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• Text-to-Speech
  ...intonation contour), the [[grapheme-phoneme conversion]], and assimilation and coarticulation rules.
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• Syntactic relation
  A '''syntactic relation''' is a relation holding between a [[constituent]] and the clause that it forms part of. * [[object]] (direct and indirect)
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• Voice disorders
  ...an inability to hit high notes, constant breathiness, pain in the throat, and tremor (a shaky voice). ...in the mouth, throat, or nose, infections, asthma are examples of disease and trauma which may affect the vocal structures.
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• AGR
  '''AGR''' is the person and number feature complex in finite [[INFL]]. Since Pollock (1989): a functional head containing [[agreement]] features and/or an [[agreement]] [[suffix]] which projects its own syntactic [[X-bar sch
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• Structural ambiguity
  ...tructures can be assigned to one string of words. The expression ''old men and women'' is structurally ambiguous because it has the following two structur (i) old [men and women]
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• Sibilant
  ...nt''' is a [[fricative]] speech [[sound]] with high [[frequency]] (/s, sh/ and their [[voiced]] cognates). [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
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• Reciprocal situation
  ...ic relation between A and B is the same as the semantic relation between B and A.
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• Fixed-context assumption
  ...Cooper 1981. ''Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language,'' Linguistics and Philosophy 4, pp. 159-219 * Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 1990. ''Meaning and grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
  ...and discussion of research on the quantitative characteristics of language and text in an exact mathematical form. Specifically, JQL publishes on: ...stochastic processes, differential and difference equations, fuzzy logics and set theory, function theory etc.), on all levels of linguistic analysis.</l
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• Filter (syntax)
  (i) for all X,Y subset E: (X in Q and Y in Q) &lt;=&gt; intersection(X,Y) in Q ...me'' N and ''most'' N are not. This accounts for the contrast between (ii) and (iii):
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• Sonorant
  ...al cords]] vibrate spontaneously (i.e. [[vowel]]s, [[glide]]s, [[liquid]]s and [[nasal]]s). [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
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• Occurrence
  ...subsumes [[activity|activities]], [[accomplishment]]s and [[achievement]]s and contrasts with [[state]]s. ...h activities, the progressive aspect denotes the continuation of an action and with accomplishments it refers to the “preparatory process leading toward
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• Generative linguistics
  ...[[Minimalist Program]], [[Government and Binding]] theory and [[Principles and Parameters]] are among its best-known representatives. Generative linguisti ...lso be considered generative, in particular [[Role and Reference Grammar]] and [[Functional Grammar]].
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• AND node
  ...in neurocognitive linguistics)|node]] in relational network notation. The AND node takes two forms, both of which are defined in this article: * The ''AND node'' of [[compact relational network notation]].
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• Homorganic
  ...iculation]]. The term is typically used for sequences of a [[nasal]] stop and another consonant, such as [nd] or [mp].
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• Taxonomy
  ...elationship between the [[hyperonym]] 'woman' and the [[hyponym]]s 'queen' and 'mother' does not instatiate a taxonymy, as neither a queen nor a mother is * Cruse, A. 2004. ''Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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• Propositional letters
  ...opositional letters should be distinguished from metavariables such as phi and psi which are used in the definitions of the logic. See also </nowiki>[[pro * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Phonetics
  ...which looks at pathological instances of speech production and perception and studies how to correct deficiencies. [[Category:Phonetics and phonology]]
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• Split antecedent
  ...fers to both Peter and Mary. It is said that PRO has the two NPs ''Peter'' and ''Mary'' as a split antecedent. * Chomsky, N. 1981. ''Lectures on Government and Binding,'' Foris, Dordrecht.
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• Alveolar ridge
  .... It can be felt as a region of small ridges between the back of the teeth and the roof of the mouth. [[Consonant]]s that are produced with constrictions *Roach, Peter. 2004. ''English Phonetics and Phonology''. Cambridge University Press.
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• Transformational rule
  ...ructure]] is derived from [[d-structure]] by means of [[transformation]]s, and [[Logical Form]] is derived from S-structure in a similar way. See [[affect * Riemsdijk, H. van and E. Williams 1986. ''Introduction to the theory of grammar,'' MIT Press, Cam
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• Ngram frequency
  ...Bigram frequency is considered to be a measure of orthographic regularity and normally has a negative correlation with response times in psycho-linguisti ...dog' will then become '_dog_' and now contains 4 bigrams: '_d', 'do', 'og' and 'g_'.
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• Information packaging
  ...ontrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics and. Point of View. Subject and Topic, ed. Charles Li. New York: Academic Press. ...formation packaging in the clause. In T. Shopen, eds., ''Language Typology and Syntactic Description'', 282-364. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Velum
  ...uth]], behind the [[palate]], that acts as a valve between the [[pharynx]] and the [[nasal cavity]]. [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
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• History of writing
  ...Development and place of origin are discussed controversally in literature and still not clear yet. ...mesopotamia 3000 B.C. 1500 B.C. writing was developed anew by the Chinese and the latest independent form of wiriting was to come from Mesoamerica - the
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• Felicity condition
  (i) I hereby declare you husband and wife * Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 1990. ''Meaning and grammar,'' MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• S-structure
  ...re]] by [[transformational rule]]s, and input to the rules deriving [[PF]] and [[LF]]. S-structure is the [[T-model]] equivalent of [[surface structure]] * Chomsky, N. 1981. ''Lectures on Government and Binding,'' Foris, Dordrecht.
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• Process
  ...rovided by Vendler (1957), '''processes''' subsume [[activity|activities]] and [[accomplishment]]s, but not [[achievement]]s (which are [[punctual]]).
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• Structural case
  ...s assigned in a certain structural configuration, depending on government (and adjacency) only (as opposed to [[inherent case]]). ...posed that a verb assigns structural Accusative case to its NP complement, and that Nominative case is assigned by the finite inflection [[INFL]] to the c
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• Disjunctive ordering
  ...[rule interaction]], introduced by Chomsky &amp; Halle (1968). Two rules A and B are ordered disjunctively if rule B may not be applied to the output of r rule (a) and (b) are two rules among the stress rules of English:
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• Leftness condition
  ...iche 1982. ''Variables and the Bijection Principle,'' Kaye, J., H. Koopman and D. Sportiche (eds.), Projet sur les langues kru: Premier rapport, pp.176-20
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• International Phonetic Alphabet
  ...t of symbols associated with speech sounds, designed for use in describing and comparing the pronunciations of all of the spoken languages of the world. I * [[Pulmonic consonants]] (organized by [[Place of articulation|place]] and [[Manner of articulation|manner]] of articulation)
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• Relational
  ...e interpreted, e.g. ''president'' (of a given institution or organization) and ''similar'' (to something).
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• Variable (Semantics)
  ...r order logic and type logic variables can also range over sets, relations and functions of diverse complexity. * Chomsky, N. 1981. ''Lectures on Government and Binding,'' Foris, Dordrecht.
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• Sound change typology
  ...ied and grouped together according to the type of change, its conditioning and other factors. ...in which languages it occurred, and collections of attested sound changes then may show how frequent this type of change is. Some changes are very common,
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• Timbre
  ...can judge that two sounds similarly presented and having the same loudness and pitch are dissimilar. Put more simply, it relates to the '''sound quality''
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• Neurological plausibility
  ...ic structure needs to be consistent with what is known about the structure and operation of the brain. This is the requirement of '''neurological plausibi
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• Sister
  ...]] there is a node C (their [[mother]]) which immediately dominates both A and B.
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• Arbitrariness of the sign
  ...poetic]] words) and [[icon]]s. Signs with an arbitrary association of form and meanings are called [[symbol]]s.
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• Referential opacity
  ...rty of [[word]]s which entails that it is impossible to 'see inside' them, and refer to their parts by using an [[anaphor]]ic device such as a [[pronoun]] ...arise through the anaphoric relation that is possible in ''he took the tea and poured it into the cup''. Referential opacity is closely related to the pro
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• Predicate logic
  ...idual terms. The basic expressions are predicates and individual constants and variables instead of propositions. ...ormulas to be quantified (into) by means of the [[existential quantifier]] and the [[universal quantifier]].
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• Upward monotonicity
  '''Upward monotonicity''' is a property of [[determiner]]s and [[quantifier]]s in [[Generalized Quantifier]] Theory. A determiner D is lef ...one and right upward monotone; see the validity of the implications in (i) and (ii) respectively:
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• Windowing
  ...t are at full amplitude. Two types of windows are the '''Hamming window''' and the '''rectangular window'''. The Hamming window reduces the amplitudes of
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• Formal universal
  ...''formal universal''' has been used for a restriction on the abstract form and general organization of grammatical rules. ''Formal universal'' is often co ...nsformational rules, or the division of the grammar into surface structure and deep structure, or restrictions of transformations to [[move alpha]] or to
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• Oral cavity
  ...uially as the ''mouth'', is the resonating chamber between the [[pharynx]] and the lips. It is the final resonating chamber of the [[vocal tract]]. [[Category:Phonetics and phonology]]
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• S-selection
  ...-selection (e.g. by rules of canonical structural realization). Next to s- and c-selection, some assume m(orphological)-selection, which applies word-inte * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Syntactic complexity
  ...cs]], it is also connected with [[position]] (within a mother constituent) and [[length]] (measured in terms of the number of terminal nodes. <br> *Hawkins, John (1994): ''A performance theory of order and constituency''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Montague Grammar
  ...a that the meaning theories for natural languages and formal languages can and should be based on the same principles, according to a Universal Grammar, o ...es quantifier scope, opaque contexts, conjunction, infinitival complements and relative clauses.
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• AX discrimination
  ...iminated, there are four possible sequences: (S1, S1), (S2, S2), (S1, S2), and (S2, S1). The subject has to respond "same" or "different".
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• Syntagmatic relationship of sense
  ''blond'' and ''hair'', ''kick'' and ''foot''
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• Syntagmatic relation
  ''blond'' and ''hair'', ''kick'' and ''foot''
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• Parameter
  ...ters specify certain options: the [[core-grammar]] of a specific language, then, is the result of the specific setting of these parameters. ...vides an explanation for systematic syntactic variation between languages, and puts restrictions on the number of choices which the language learner has t
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• Reciprocal construction
  ...tion between A and B is the same as the semantic relation between B and A, and if a special construction is used to denote such a situation. A reciprocal ...constructions that one of the arguments denotes a set A as specified above and that the basic argument structure of the relevant predicate is reduced or c
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• Formula
  ...every expression defined by the syntactic rules of [[propositional logic]] and [[predicate logic]] in a finite number of steps. * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Role and Reference Grammar
  ...in (1984), Van Valin (ed.) 1993, Van Valin & LaPolla 1997, Van Valin 2005, and Pavey 2010. ...p://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/vanvalin/rrg.html Official Role and Reference Grammar website]
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• Aspiration
  In some languages (cf. English) aspiration is predictable and position-bound. *Kenstowicz, M. and C. Kisseberth. 1979. ''Generative Phonology: Description and Theory.'' New York: Academic Press.
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• Acceptable
  ...the syntactic rules of its language. It only refers to its intelligibility and likelihood of production according to judgments made by native speakers of An acceptable (and grammatical) sentence of English:
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• Theta criterion
  ...ssociated with a theta-assigner (typically a verb) must be assigned to one and only one argument.
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• Partial assimilation vs. total assimilation
  ...e assimilated sound retains at least one of its original phonetic features and adopts only some of the phonetic features of another sound. (Thus, Old Engl [[Category:Phonetics and phonology]]
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• Right node raising
  ...of the identical constituents (''the book'') to the right of the sentence, and deleting the identical originals (indicated by e). (i) a [[John saw the book] and [Bill bought the book]]
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• Meronymy
  ...olds between an entity and its parts. The whole is also called [[holonym]] and each part of it a [[meronym]].
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• Adpositional phrase
  ...adpositional phrase''' is a phrase consisting of a [[head]] [[adposition]] and its complement (generally a [[noun phrase]]). ...of these, it is also used as an abbreviation for ''adpositional phrase'' (and of course [[AP]] is already taken, as an abbreviation of [[adjective phrase
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• Layering
  ...ions are continually emerging, and older layers may remain to coexist with and interact with the newer layers. Thus, at any synchronic moment, more than o
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• Absolute
  * Nouns: ''man'', ''table'' and ''war'' * Adjectives ''blue'', ''old'' and ''long''
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• Synthesis-by-rules
  ...human speaker are imitated. Explicit knowledge about the sound components and accomodation rules is used to define the characteristics of the speech.
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• Theme (vs. rheme)
  ...rm for [[topic]]. It is often used in contrast with [[rheme]] (see [[theme and rheme]]). See [[theme and rheme]].
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• Epistemic modality
  ...ty, along with [[agent-oriented modality]], [[speaker-oriented modality]], and [[subordinate modality]].
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• Back
  The vowel [u] differs from [i] in that [u] is characterized by [+back] and [i] by [-back]. ..., Naom A. & Halle, M. 1968. The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper and Row.
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• Agent-oriented modality
  ...ate modality]]. Agent-oriented modality “reports the existence of internal and external conditions on an agent with respect to the completion of the actio
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• Logic
  ...xclusively true or false) three-valued logics (true, false and indefinite) and other many-valued logics have been defined. The characteristic of these lan * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Complementizer (in X-bar theory)
  ...lexically instantiated by [[complementizer]]s and other [[subordinator]]s, and that can serves as a [[landing site]] for all sorts of [[movement]] operati
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• Agglutinating language
  ...hich has a morphological system in which words as a rule are polymorphemic and where each [[morpheme]] corresponds to a single lexical meaning. Classical examples of agglutinating languages are Turkish and Quechua.
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