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• Theme (vs. rheme)
  The term '''theme''' is an older term for [[topic]]. It is often used in contrast with [[rheme]] (see [[theme and rheme]]).
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• Endangered Languages Academic Programme
  ...emic programme at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (London). It is a part of the [[HRELP]].
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• Homography
  ...when a set of words are spelled identically, but have different meanings. It is not necessary for homographic words to be pronounced the same way, which
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• Homophony
  ...en a set of words are pronounced identically, but have different meanings. It is not necessary for homophonic words to be spelled the same way, which is
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• VP raising
  ...e it is triggered by verbs that also trigger [[Verb raising]], and because it induces [[IPP]].
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• Dative alternation
  The indirect object structure is also referred to as NP PP structure as it consists of a nounphrase (NP) and a prepositional phrase (PP). The double-object structure is referred to as NP NP structure as it consists of two nounphrases.
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• Steady state
  ...h [[formant]]s are "steady", i.e. they do not move. In a CVC [[syllable]], it is that part of the vowel after the formant [[transition]] from the first C
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• C-command
  ...B (cf. (i)c). X1 in (ii) is not relevant to (i)c: although it dominates B, it does not dominate A. ...'. By the same token the [[P]] ''in'' c-commands the [[NP]] ''the store''; it does not c-command the V'₁ ''buy the book'', nor the V and the N
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• Suspended affixation
  this particular case. In contrast, in English it does make a difference whether you suspend or don't in cases like Nikolaus Finck in his ''Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus'' (1910), where it is
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• Dominance
  Also, node C in (ii) does not dominate the nodes B, D, or E, nor is it dominated by either of these nodes. Furthermore, node A ''immediately'' dom ...ximal projection of X, being dominated by the topmost node XP². It is said then, that ZP is not ''excluded'' from XP. Exclusion is defined in
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• Trace theory
  ...assumes that if an element X has been moved in the course of a derivation, it has left a [[trace]] in its original position. Since [[theta-marking]] occurs at d-structure, it is possible to determine the thematic role of the moved NP via its trace. T
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• Relational network
  ...ther. If we draw a diagram of a particular linguistic structure, parts of it look something like a net which would be used for fishing, although a good ...mbination of symbols, we analyze its relationships to other units to which it is related. For example, morphemes are somehow related to elements of phono
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• Substitution
  ...egory alpha to an empty position beta such that beta is replaced by alpha. It is one of two possible formats of movement rules, the other being [[adjunct
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• Table of coreference
  ...Jackendoff (1972) uses to indicate the anaphoric relations in a sentence. It states for each pair of referring phrases in the sentence whether they are
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• Blend
  It can therefore be descroibed as an improductive type of word formation by wh ...may be defined as two or more words, often of cognate sense, telescoped as it were into one."'' (Pound 1914:1)
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• Restructuring
  In (i) it would be impossible to move the object ''queste case'' from the embedded cl (I) it-will come at-once to see
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• Infix
  ...answer is ‘no.’ True, ''-al'' occurs inside a complex word, but crucially it does not occur inside another morpheme." (Plag 2003:11) ..., the morphemic analysis of past verb forms in Arabic is more complex than it might overtly seem were we to add [[gender]] as yet a third morpheme.
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• Thyroid
  ...lages, which its sides enclose, and superior to the [[cricoid]] cartilage. It forms an angle in the front that is more acute in men (90 degrees) than in
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• Quantity-(in)sensitivity
  ...[[parameter]]s that define [[stress system]]s, introduced by Hayes (1981). It reflects the role of [[syllable weigh]]t in assigning stress [[feet]]. In a ...light: co:nfíci<unt>; the penultimate syllable is stressed only if it is heavy: pepér<ci:> (cf. Hayes (1991:80).
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• Thetic vs. categorical
  *(Why aren't you playing outside?) It's raining. ...made popular in linguistics by Kuroda 1972 and Sasse 1987. Kuroda adopted it from the philosopher Brentano.
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• Presupposition
  A: It is John who is taking care of Mary -A: It isn't John who is taking care of Mary
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• General linguistics
  ...general, disregarding the differences between different languages (in this it contrasts with [[descriptive linguistics]]).
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• Assimilation
  ...egment]] causes another [[segment]] to become phonetically more similar to it in some way. ...uring labial segment [p]. When assimilation takes place between two vowels it is more commonly referred to as [[vowel harmony]].
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• Dativization
  ...ovement]]. A verb is said to be ''dativizable'' (especially in English) if it can undergo dative movement.
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• Construction (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...sh it away" or "push it off", acquired first as a lexeme, and then to make it mutable by substituting other constituents for one of these three. Later,
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• Dative case
  The term ''dative'' goes back to antiquity. It is derived from Latin ''(cāsus) datīvus'' 'case of giving' (cf. ''dare''
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• That-trace effect
  ...howing the ''that''-t(race) effect, a [[subject]] cannot be extracted when it follows ''that''. This is shown by the contrast in (i) and (ii). As noted, the ''that''-t effect is not a universal phenomenon. It is absent in e.g. [[Dutch]], as shown by the fact that the Dutch translatio
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• Polar question
  ...r question''' is a [[question]] that only allows a 'yes' or a 'no' answer. It is most often opposed to a [[content question]], which has to be answered b
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• Language
  ...on above, and the way in which they are normally acquired could change, as it has in the case of Hebrew, which for centuries was acquired more like Sansk ...s Basque or Japanese were also created in this way. What is crucial is how it is used, and Esperanto is used very much like other languages. The term "na
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• Animacy
  ...ronoun (what/who), case endings, word order, or the form a verb takes when it is associated with that noun. French: animéité
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• Airstream
  ...e sounds are produced with a closed larynx moving up, pushing air ahead of it. ...aralinguistic|paralinguistically]] in some cultures [ref needed]. However, it is never used [[phonemic contrast|contrastively]], and so the IPA does not
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• Descriptive meaning
  ...nly concerns the relationship between a given sign and its [[denotation]]. It contrasts with [[non-descriptive meaning]], which concerns attitudes held b
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• Structural ambiguity
  ...ds. The expression ''old men and women'' is structurally ambiguous because it has the following two structural analyses:
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• Persevatory assimilation
  '''Persevatory assimilation''' is a process of [[assimilation]], it is also called 'carry-over assimilation' or 'progressive assimilation'.
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• Lexicon
  ...r [[lexical entry|lexical entries]] (also [[lexical item]]s, [[lexeme]]s). It contains information about (a) the [[pronunciation]], (b) the [[meaning]], The term 'lexicon' ambiguous insofar as it is used both for a 'mental lexicon' as the representation of lexical knowle
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• Visibility condition
  ...ondition which states that an element must be [[Case-marked]] in order for it to be visible for [[theta-marking]] (which in turn is required by the [[the
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• Truth table
  ...lex [[propositional formula]] can be represented. By means of truth tables it is possible to define the [[connective]]s of [[propositional logic]]. See [
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• Szasa/Draft
  ...n referred to as language mixing, which is actually not a new concept. But it could be argued that '''Denglisch''' is one of the newest mixed languages i '''Denglisch''' is not just a linguistic quirk. It reflects the ability of languages to adjust as they meet the ever evolving
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• Natural language
  ...mathematics or logic or [[programming language]]s are important. Sometimes it is also used in contrast to [[artificial language]]s such as Esperanto, alt
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• Closed syllable
  ...[rhyme]] of a closed syllable branches: besides the [[nucleus]] (or peak), it also contains a [[coda]]. The English words ''cat'' [kat], ''mice'' [maɪs
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• Innovative
  An '''innovative''' descendant of a language is one that is dissimilar to it, compared to its other descendants.
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• Attribute (as predicate nominal)
  ...syntactic relation of a predicative noun phrase or adjective phrase, i.e. it corresponds to the term [[predicate nominal]] that is more widespread in En
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• Homonymy
  The Dutch word ''bank'' is homonymous, since it can refer to (a) a couch, and (b) a bank. Equivalent to [[ambiguity]].
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• Concatenation (in neurocognitive linguistics)
  ...e with an incoming line A above it, and two outgoing lines, B and C, below it.
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• S-selection
  ...diate context through its [[argument structure]], i.e. the [[theta-role]]s it assigns. This is called s(emantic)-selection. ...ction, the conditions imposed in terms of categorical features (e.g. N,V). It is a point of debate whether and to what extent c-selection can be derived
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• Split antecedent
  [[PRO]] refers to both Peter and Mary. It is said that PRO has the two NPs ''Peter'' and ''Mary'' as a split antecede
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• Reanalysis (in diachrony)
  ...aning different from the speaker. Whereas reanalysis is [[covert]] in that it occurs in the minds of listeners, analysis is [[overt]], and provides the d
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• Alveolar ridge
  ...the [[mouth]] separating the [[palate|hard palate]] from the upper teeth. It can be felt as a region of small ridges between the back of the teeth and t
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• Reiterant speech
  ...ished from the prosodic characteristics. The use of reiterant speech makes it possible to abstract away from (co-) intrinsic characteristics. Instead of
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• L-marking
  ...y]] and thus in that of a [[barrier]]. Roughly, a category is L-marked iff it is theta-marked by a lexical head. This definition entails that it is not only the theta-marked category itself which can be L-marked, but als
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• Top-down
  ...to [[bottom-up]] information, covers all types of non-sensory information. It covers knowledge of the world, context information, but also knowledge abou
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• Theta-government
  ...tion in which a [[governor]] [[theta-marking|theta-marks]] the phrase that it governs, formally defined as in (i).
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• Bounded/unbounded
  It fixes the number of syllables of a [[foot]] as either two (bounded) or inde
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• Morpheme
  ...ibute some sort of meaning, or a grammatical function to the word to which it belongs, and (b) cannot itself be decomposed into smaller morphemes. ...term ''morpheme'' was coined by [[Jan Baudouin de Courtenay]] in c. 1880. It is based on Greek ''morph-'' 'form' and the suffix -eme, on the analogy of
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• Descriptive adequacy
  ...tic theories]]. A theory attains a higher level of descriptive adequacy if it can handle more natural language data from more languages.
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• Declarative sentence
  (i) is a declarative sentence because we can assign it a truth value (e.g., in the actual world sentence (i) is not true).
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• Strength
  ...se in every model, D is negative strong (''Neither dog is a dog''); and if it is true depending on the domain, D is weak (''At least two dogs are dogs''
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• Complementarity
  ...that do not overlap, i.e. they have no element in common. In linguistics, it is used with a variety of more specific meanings:
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• Adfix
  ...ority of affixes are adfixes, there is little practical use for this term. It occurs primarily in the discussion of infixation, where infixes need to be
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• Variable (Semantics)
  ...on of a [[logical language]] which is used as a place-holder in a formula. It does not have a specific [[reference]] but stands for an unspecified value.
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• Quantisation noise
  ...continuous [[signal]] at all posible points in time. The best way to avoid it is to use a large number of amplitude steps. The amplitude of quantisation
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• Eastern Saamic
  '''Eastern Saamic''' constitutes the eastern branch of [[Saamic]]. It can be subdivided into the [[Mainland_Eastern_Saamic|mainland group]] (with
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• Western Saamic
  Western [[Saamic]] is the western branch of [[Saamic]]. It is further divided into [[Southern Saamic]] and [[Central Saamic]].
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• Anomaly
  It is unclear whether anomaly is a linguistic phenomenon. However, [[grammatic
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• Foreignism
  ...ecipient language]] at all and that is not (yet) perceived as belonging to it fully. Thus, a foreignism can be said to be intermediate between an establi
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• Topic
  ...s [[given]] in the [[discourse]], the comment is [[new information]] about it. The topic is thus the part of the proposition that is being talked about ( It was ''the little girl'' that the dog bit.
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• Minimal pair
  It is important to note that, despite the denotational meaning of ''pair'', mi
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• Error analysis
  '''Error analysis''' is a branch of [[applied linguistics]]. It is concerned with the compilation, study and analysis of [[errors]] made by ...language learners discover the [[target language]] by hypothesizing about it and testing their hypotheses more or less like children do. This process do
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• Subordinator
  ...a clause and indicates the [[subordinate]] status of the clause marked by it. In addition, subordinators often give information about the semantic kind
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• Acquired dyslexia
  It is an umbrella term for many specific forms of [[dyslexia]] which can be ca
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• Nection
  ...nodes (or the plural side of a node with a boundary of a network at which it interfaces with structure outside the network) may be called an ''external * Any other line is an ''internal line''. It follows that any internal line has at least one end connecting to the singu
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• Stop
  ...er of articulation]], a [[consonant]] where air is held back when uttering it.
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• Strict identity
  ...efer to the same item as the antecedent anaphora (''strict identity''), or it can refer to an analogous item ([[sloppy identity]]).
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• Adverb
  ...s ''quickly'', or ''probably'', can also modify [[VP]]s, or [[sentence]]s. It has been proposed that adverbs form a distinct category, ADV, because - unl
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• Topic-comment-distinction
  ...the thing that is talked about (''the [[topic]]'') and what is said about it (''the [[comment]]''). In simple sentences this distinction coincides with
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• Inchoative
  ...ill eat his lunch in an hour'': the inchoative reading is the one in which it will take an hour before John is to eat his lunch.
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• Partial assimilation vs. total assimilation
  ...adopts all the phonetic features of another sound and becomes identical to it (e.g. Latin ''se'''p'''tem'' 'seven' > Italian ''se'''t'''te''). An assimil
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• Vibrato
  ...dulation]] superimposed upon the [[pitch]] [[frequency]] of the note sung. It also requires a small [[intensity]] [[modulation]] of a few [[decibel]]s. O
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• Adpositional phrase
  ...re more common. Since [[PP]] is used as an abbreviation for both of these, it is also used as an abbreviation for ''adpositional phrase'' (and of course
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• Context dependence
  ...at the interpretation of an expression depends on the [[context]] in which it is used.
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• Binarity
  ...inarity is a property of a [[feature]]. A feature is said to be binary iff it can take only one of two [[value]]s. For example, the lexical feature [conc
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• Extension
  ...oncept, idea, or [[sign (semiotics)|sign]] consists of the things to which it applies, in contrast with its [[comprehension (logic)|comprehension]] or [[
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• Word
  ...logical objects which consitute the domain for lexical phonological rules. It is particularly striking that these three uses of the notion 'word' are not ...and a clitic may function as a phonological word, although morphologically it is a clitic group consisting of a morphological word and a clitic.
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• Sandbox
  This page is for trying out text and formatting, to see how it looks, to study, etc. Don't expect anything you do here to last.
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• Paradigmatic relation
  ...f the same category, i.e. elements that can be substituted for each other. It contrasts with [[syntagmatic relation]], which applies to relations holding
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• Subjunctive
  It must that he be_SUBJ capable
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• Tail-head linkage
  ...only displays THL in instructional texts (recipes, rituals, etc.), usually it needs to occur in more different types of text in order to be classified as
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• Base (in Cognitive Grammar)
  ...lement (designatum) is the figure and the base is the ground against which it is construed. ...The designatum of CHILD is part of the base of PARENT, and vice versa, but it is not designated when viewed from that window.
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• McGurk effect
  ...al illusion that has become known as the McGurk effect or McGurk illusion. It is the effect experienced when a subject's perception of a speech sound is
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• Scrambling
  ...ersy is whether scrambling is a case of movement (of NP) and if so whether it is [[A-bar movement]] or not.
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• Light syllable
  ...is a [[syllable]] whose [[syllable weight|weight]] is one [[mora]]. Thus it is an [[open syllable]] which contains a short vowel. The English word ''c
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• Case Assignment Conditions
  ...expression is assigned case by the closest case-assigner which c-commands it (in consequence of the Earliness Principle) and is assigned<br>
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• Linguistic activity
  '''Linguistic activity''' includes, first, speaking and comprehending. It also includes writing and reading, as well as thinking; not all thinking, b
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• Semantic typology
  ...languages differ in categorizing experience into concepts. In other words, it is the study of meaning ([[semantics]]) using the cross-linguistic methodol
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• Noise
  White noise has a uniform spectrum, which means that it has equally intense components at every audible frequency. Noise has no eff
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• Talking machines
  ...o imitate human speech production is the [[Von Kempelen talking machine]]. It is also a good example of [[analysis-by-synthesis]] : the product of the sy
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• Result nominal
  ...[[nominal]] which denotes the result of the action denoted by the [[verb]] it is [[derivation|derived]] from.
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• Impersonal construction
  ...ith an [[expletive subject]] (e.g. ''it is raining'', Russian ''svetaet'' 'it dawns')
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• Motherese
  ...form of a special speech variety called Motherese (or, as the French call it, Mamanaise): intensive sessions of conversational give-and-take, with repet ...fathers, other adults, and children. Baby talk is also inadequate because it is used in the literature in a negative sense as a form of language which u
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• Affix
  ...attached affix (be it in-, pre, circum- or post-) is so formally weak that it harmonises with the root.
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