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• Echoic use
  In '''echoic use''' of language speakers merely repeat utterances made by other speakers in order to achiev ...se of language has been claimed to be a key concept in the ironical use of language, esp. in the work done by Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber (e.g. Sperber & Wi
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• Context
  {{Wikipedia|Context (language use)}}
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• Formulaic language
  ...d and retrieved holistically rather than being generated de novo with each use. Examples of formulaic language include [[idiom]]s, [[set expression]]s, [[rhyme]]s, songs, prayers, and [[
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• Parameter
  ...mar parameters specify certain options: the [[core-grammar]] of a specific language, then, is the result of the specific setting of these parameters. ...etween languages, and puts restrictions on the number of choices which the language learner has to make.
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• Code-mixing
  ...syntax]] use the term as a synonym for [[code-switching]], the alternating use by bilingual speakers of two or more different languages within a single ut ...nsition from using linguistic units (words, phrases, clauses, etc.) of one language to using those of another within a single sentence" (Sridhar and Sridhar 19
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• Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
  ...lication and discussion of research on the quantitative characteristics of language and text in an exact mathematical form. Specifically, JQL publishes on: ...nguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics, etc. as far as they use quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic processes
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• Human information system
  .... One of the major means of putting out information is through the use of language -- the [[linguistic information system]]. But information can also be put ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb], Continuum, 2004.
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• Motherese
  The language addressed to children by their caretakers is often called '''motherese'''. ...I will use the following broad definition of baby talk: ''Baby talk'': the language used by anyone in the linguistic community when addressing a child."'' (Ing
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• Principles and Parameters framework
  ...conception of grammar introduced in Chomsky (1981), which takes [[natural language]], i.e. our [[linguistic competence]] to be a complex of subsystems of prin * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Narrow relational network notation
  Here we also see the use of inhibitory [[blocking element|blocking elements]], which are a special t ...Lamb, Sydney M.]] 1999. Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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• Borrowing (i.e. copying)
  ...e]]) '''borrows (i.e. copies)''' an element from a language Y (the [[donor language]]) means that it comes to include this element into its own system. ...'''borrowed elements''', which were imported at some time from a different language."'' (Lehmann 1962:212)
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• Visibility condition
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Language
  ...to French ''langue'' 'a particular language' and French ''langage'' 'human language, the ability to speak and understand speech'. ...ies was acquired more like Sanskrit, but is now widely used as an everyday language and acquired in early childhood.
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• Portal:Computational Linguistics
  == '''Language Analysis''' == == '''Natural Language Generation''' ==
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• Rigid designator
  ...n between a name and its bearer by a causal theory of reference: the first use of a name for an individual determines its designation independent of its m * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Theta-theory
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Pretence
  '''Pretence''' is often regarded as an important component of ironical use of language, e.g. by Clark & Gerrig (1984).
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• Perfective
  ..... puts too much emphasis on the termination of the situation, whereas the use of the perfective puts no more emphasis, necessarily, on the end of the sit ..., Rodney D. and Geoffrey K. Pullum. ''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.'' Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
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• Montague Grammar
  ...ive to a model containing possible worlds and moments of time, and crucial use is made of #meaning postulates. The range of constructions and phenomena tr * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Siwi
  |Language =Siwi ...'tasiwit'', although speakers of other Berber languages have been known to use the term.
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• Subcategorization frame
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Izguba Jezika (slo)
  Lambert, E.D. / Fred, B.F. (eds.) 1982: The Loss Of Language Skills. Rowley: Newbury House Publishers. ...alism. In: Köpke, B., Schmid, M. S., Keijzer, M., and Dostert, S., (eds.), Language Attrition: theoretical perspectives, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
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• Lexicalization (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...for the meaning of "happiness" to be in any way idiomatic: It is repeated use rather than degree of idiomaticity that determines presence or absence of a ...eadow or field or jungle--the more they are used the easier they become to use again".
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• Sprachverlust
  *Lambert, E.D. / Fred, B.F. (eds.) 1982: The Loss Of Language Skills. Rowley: Newbury House Publishers. ...lism. In: Köpke, B., Schmid, M. S., *Keijzer, M., and Dostert, S., (eds.), Language Attrition: theoretical perspectives, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
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• Structural case
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Interference
  ...f one language (or variety) on another in the speech of [[bilingual]]s who use both languages. ...sult of their familiarity with more than one language, i.e. as a result of language contact, will be referred to as INTERFERENCE phenomena."'' (Weinreich 1953:
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• Error analysis
  ...[[second language learners]] and aims at investigating aspects of [[second language acquisition]]. ..., whereas [[error analysis]] compares the learner’s data with the [[target language]] [[norm]] and identifies and explains errors accordingly (cf. James 1998).
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• Finite vs. nonfinite
  ...m ''infinitive''. It has been in use only since the 19th century. An early use is in Murray (1798). *Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 1994. Finiteness. In: The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon Press & Aberdeen University Press.
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• Realization
  ...en any two strata in a stratificational system. With such a structure the use of mutation rules is incompatible. Instead we have realization, whereby el ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb].'' London: Continuum.
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• Parallel corpus
  ...llel corpus''' is a corpus that contains a collection of original texts in language L₁ and their translations into a set of languages L₂ ...lowing requirements: (i) it should contain authentic (naturally occurring) language data; (ii) it should be representative, i.e. it should contain data from di
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• There-insertion
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Theta-position
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Linguistic information system
  ...inguistic theory, and certainly not that it is genetically determined by a language gene. ...tem, you find larger and larger inventories: The number of morphemes in a language is quite large in comparison with the number of phonemes; the number of le
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• Tactic pattern
  (This view is still in use by some neurocognitivists while others adhere to an explanation involving t ...reek root as ''syntax'', referring to arrangements. He said that we could use the term to refer to that part of the structure which is concerned with arr
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• Trace theory
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Code-switching
  ...called the [[matrix language]], while the minor language is the [[embedded language]]. ...s when a bilingual introduces a completely unassimilated word from another language into his speech."'' (Haugen 1956:40)
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• Line (in relational network theory)
  ...ng through a field or a jungle, the more it gets used, the easier it is to use the next time. ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb].'' London: Continuum.
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• Definite description
  ...lyzed as parts of the assertion, but as ''presuppositions'' for the proper use of the definite description. When one of these presuppositions is not satis * Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. ''Logic, language, and meaning,'' Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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• Threshold node
  ...incoming lines are active. Conceptual structures evidently make extensive use of threshold nodes with multiple connecting lines. ...p://books.google.com/books/about/Language_and_Reality.html?id=vrlPUxB2_JwC Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb].'' London: Continuum.
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• Multilingualism
  ...to the fact that there are only few countries where more than one official language is spoken. Not even a quarter of the world’s nations recognize two offici ...nce, but many of them, e.g. the African Union, use English as the official language, or one among their official languages.
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• Register (discourse)
  ...one or two social varieties of language (standard and dialect), while they use a “wide range of registers” (Barnickel 1982, 13; Biber 2000, 135; Halli ...et. al. 1964, 87), which means that there is a close relationship between language and context of situation. Most linguists agree with this definition. Howeve
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• Japanese
  ...ge being mainly spoken on the Japanese archipelago. It is an agglutinative language. |Language =Japanese
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• S-selection
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Tensed-S Condition
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Theta Criterion
  * Chomsky, N. 1986a. ''Knowledge of language: its nature, origin and use,'' Praeger, New York.
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• Complement
  In English-language linguistics the term ''complement'' in this sense is common only as part of ...complements and optional [[adjunct]]s. This meaning is standard in Russian-language linguistics.)
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• Converb
  ...he English equivalent of deepricastie (cf. Nedjalkov 1990), but in English-language Slavic linguistic, converb is never used to render deepricastie. Also, some ...edjalkov & Nedjalkov (1987) first adopted the term for general typological use, followed by Haspelmath & König (1995).
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• Quantifier Raising
  Pesetsky (1985) extends the use of QR to morphological structures, and argues that QR can be used to solve * Huang, James 1982. ''Move wh in a language without wh-movement,'' [[Linguistic review]], 369-416
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• Maxim of manner
  ...One kind consists in making unambiguous use of syntax and phonology of the language in order to construct a clear text. Another type [...] consists in framing ...oks.Google.de Horn - Maxim of Manner. Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse. 29 Sept 2009]
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