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A-bar binding
A-bar bound
A-bar free
A-bar GF
A-bar movement
A-bar position
A-binding
A-bound
A-chain
A-free
A-GF
A-movement
A-over-A
A-position
Abduction
Ablaut
Absolute neutralization
Absolute threshold
Absolutive
Absorption
Abstract noun
ABX discrimination
Accent
Accessibility
Accessible
Accidental gap
Accomplishment
Accusative verb
Achievement
Acoustic correlate
Acoustic coupling
Acronym
Across-the-Board
Action tie
Active
Activity
Adam's apple
Adaptation
Adduction
Adicity
Adjacency
Adjacency Condition
Adjoin
Adjunct
Adjunct Condition
Adjunction
Adjunction condition
Advanced tongue root
Adverb
Affect alpha
Affected object
Affectedness
Affix
Affix Ordering Generalization
Affix Rule
Affix substitution
Affixation
Affricate
Agent
Agentive verb
Agglutinating language
AGR
Agree
Agreement
Airstream mechanisms
Aktionsar
Aliasing
Alienable possession
Allomorph
Allomorphy
Allomorphy rule
Allophony
Alveolar
Ambiguity
Ambisyllabic
Amplitude
Analog-to-digital conversion
Analogy
Analysis-and-resynthesis
Analysis-by-synthesis
Analytic truth
Anaphor
Anaphoric epithet
Anaphoric pronoun
Angled brackets
Anomaly
Antecedent
Antecedent government
Antecedent-govern
Anterior
Anticipatory shortening
Antiformant
Antipersistence
Antonymy
Apical
Appositional compound
Approximant
Arbitrary PRO
Argument
Argument position
Argument structure
Argument-linking Principle
Arity
Article
Articulation
Articulation rate
Articulators
Articulatory gesture
Articulatory speech synthesis
Articulography
Arytenoid
Aspect
Aspectual classes
Aspiration
Assertion
Assignment
Assimilation
Atelic aspect
Atom Condition
Atomic formula
Atomicity of words
Attract
Attractor
Attributive noun phrase
Attributive use
Audiogram
Auditory feedback
Automatic speaker identification
Automatic speaker verification
Automatic Speech Recognition
Autosegmental analysis of intonation
AUX
Auxiliary verb
Avoid Pronoun Principle
AX discrimination
Bach-Peters paradox
Back
Back-formation
Backward anaphora
Bahuvrihi compound
Ballastic movement
Bandwidth
Bare plural
Bark scale
Barrier
Base
Base component
Base-generated
Basilar membrane
Belief sentence
Bernouilli principle
Biconditional
Bijection Principle
Bilabial
Binary Branching Constraint
Binary connective
Bind
Binding
Binding Condition
Binding Domain
Binding theory
Biteblock
Biuniqueness
Bleeding order
Blending
Blocking
Blocking Category
Bottom-up
Bound
Bound morpheme
Bound variable
Boundary
Bounded/unbounded
Bounding node
Bounding theory
Braces
Bracket Erasure Convention
Bracketed grids
Bracketing paradox
Branch
Breathy voice
Bridge verb
Broad focus
Buccal cavity
By-phrase
C-command
C-command domain
C-dominate
C-selection
Canonical structural realization
Cardinal vowels
Case
Case assignment
Case Filter
Case-marked
Case-marking
Cataphoric relation
Categorical perception
Causative verb
Centre frequency
Chain
Chain Composition
Chain Condition
Checking configuration
Checking domain
Checking relation
Checking theory
Circumfix
Class I affix
Class I/II affix
Class II affixes
Clause union
Cleft
Click detection
Clicks
Clipping
Clitic
Clitic Climbing
Cliticization
Closed syllable
Closed under extension
Closed under inclusion
Co-analysis
Co-articulation
Co-intrinsic characteristics
Co-ordinative structure
Cochlea
Cochlear implant
Cocktail party effect
Coda
Cohort model
Coindexed
Coindexing
Collective noun
Collective predicate
Command
Comment
COMP
Comparative
Complement
Complement domain
Complementary distribution
Complementizer
Complementizer deletion
Complete Functional Complex
Complex Noun Phrase Condition
Complex NP Constraint
Componential analysis
Compositional meaning
Compositional semantics
Compositionality of translation
Compositionality Principle
Compound
Compound Affix Ordering Generalization
Compound Rule
Compounding
Concatenation
Conceptual Structure
Conceptualism
Concord
Concrete noun
Condition A
Condition B
Condition C
Condition on Extraction Domain
Conditional
Configurational language
Conjugation
Conjunction
Connectedness
Connective
Connotation
Consequent
Conservativity
Consonantal
Constancy
Constative
Constituent
Contain
Context dependence
Contextual neutralization
Contingent truth
Continuant
Contour tone
Contraction
Contradiction
Control
Control shift
Control Theory
Converge
Converse antonymy
Conversion
Coordinate Structure Constraint
Core
Core-grammar
Coreference
Coreferential
Coronal
Correspondence theory
Count noun
Counterfactive predicate
Covert syntax
CP
CP-reduction
Cranberry morpheme
Crash
Creaky voice
Crest factor
Cricoid
Critical bandwidth
Cross-categorial operators
Crossed binding
Crossing
Crossmodal semantic priming
Crossover
CSC
Cumulative reference
Cyclic domain
Cyclicity
D-structure
DAF
Damping
Daughter-of
DB
Decibel
Declarative sentence
Declension
Declination
Decomposition of word meaning
Deep-Structure
Defective paradigm
Definite article
Definite description
Definiteness effect
Definiteness restriction
Defooting
Degemination
Deictic pronoun
Deixis
Delayed Auditory Feedback
Deletion
Deletion in COMP
Demonstratives
Demotion
Denotation
Denotational theory
Denotatum
Dental
Derivation
Designated terminal element
Destressing
Determiner
Diacritic
Diacritic feature
Dialogue system
Dichotic listening
Diminutive
Diotic
Diphone
Diphthong
Diphthongization
Discontinuous affix
Discontinuous constituent
Disjoint reference
Disjunction
Disjunctive ordering
Dispersion
Distributive predicate
Domain
Domain of discourse
Dominance
Dominate
Donkey anaphora
Dorsal
Double object construction
Doubly-filled COMP Filter
Downstep
Downward monotonicity
DP
Dual
Durative aspect
Dvanda compound
Dynamic time warping
Echo question
ECM
ECP
Egressive
Ejective
Electroglottography
Electrolaryngography
Electropalatography
Elision
Empty Category
Empty Category Principle
Empty operator
Enclitic
End rule
Endocentric compound
Energy
Epenthesis
Epiglottis
Epistemic modal
Epithet
EPP
EPP-feature
Equi NP deletion
Equivalence
ERB
ERB scale
Ergative pattern
Ergative verb
Escape hatch
Esophageal speech
EST
Event
Event time
Exceptional Case Marking
Exclude
Exclusion
Existence
Existential interpretation
Existential quantifier
Existential sentence
Exocentric Compound
Experiencer
Experiencer verb
Expletive
Extended Level Ordering Hypothesis
Extended Projection Principle
Extended Standard Theory
Extension
Extension requirement
Extension vowel
Extension, verbal
Extensional adjective
External argument
External negation
External theta-role
Extraction-site
Extrametrical
Extraposed
Extraposition
Extrinsic allophone
Factive predicate
False vocal folds
Falsetto
Fatigue
Feature
Feature analysis
Feature checking
Feature matrix
Feature Percolation
Feature Percolation Conventions
Feedback
Feet
Felicity condition
Fewest Steps
Filter
Filter slope
Final lengthening
First Order Projection Condition
First Sister Principle
Fixed-context assumption
Flap
Floating quantifier
Focus
Foot
FOPC
Formant
Formant bandwidth
Formant filter
Formant synthesis
Formant track
Formant transition
Formula
Fourier theorem
Free
Free morpheme
Free relative
Free variable
Frequency
Frequency component
Fricative
Front-end
Frozen Structure Constraint
Fuckin' insertion
Full Interpretation
Function Chain
Function composition
Functional Projection
Functional shif
Functor
Fundamental frequency
Fusional morphology
Gamma-marking
Gapping
Gating technique
GB
Gender
Generalized Quantifier
Generalized Quantifier Theory
Generalized Transformation
Generate
Generative Semantics
Generic interpretation
Gerund
Gestural score
Gesture
GF
GF-theta
Glide
Global economy
Glottal
Glottal friction
Glottal stop
Glottis
Glottograph
Goal
Govern
Governing category
Governing domain
Government
Governor
GQT
Gradable antonym
Grammatical Function
Grapheme-phoneme conversion
Greed
Grooved tongue
GT
H-and-H model
Hamming window
Haplology
Harmonics
Head
Head Movement
Head Movement Constraint
Heavy-NP shift
Hidden Markov Models
High
HMC
HMM
Homonymy
Homorganic segment
Host
Hyoid
Hyper-articulation
Hyperonymy
Hypo-articulation
Hyponymy
Hypostasis
I-within-i condition
Ideal
Idiom
Idiosyncrasy
Iff
Illocutionary act
Illocutionary force
Immediate dominance
Immediate precedence
Imperative
Imperfective
Implication
Implicit transposition
Implosive
Improper movement
Improperness
Inalienable possession
Inchoative
Inclination
Inclusion
Inclusiveness condition
Incorporation
Indefinite article
Index
Indexicality
Indirect context
Indirect question
Individual constant
Individual term
Individual variable
Infinitivus pro Participio
Infix
INFL
Inflection
Ingressive
Inherent case
Inheritance
Inhibition
Insert alpha
Intension
Intensional adjectives
Intensional context
Intensional logic
Intensity
Interface
Internal argument
Internal domain
Internal negation
Internal theta-role
Internalization
International Phonetic Alphabet
Interpretation
Interpretation function
Interpretative semantics
Interpretive rules
Intersective adjective
Intonation
Intonation grammar
Intrinsic allophone
Intrinsic characteristics
IP
IPA
IPO method
IPP
IS A Condition
Island
Island Condition
Isogloss
Isolating language
It-cleft
Jitter
JND
Just Noticeable Difference
Katz-Fodor-semantics
Katz-Postal-principle
L-feature
L-marked
L-marking
L-related
Labeled bracketing
Labial
Labialisation
Labiodental
Lambda-abstraction
Lambda-operator
Laminal
Landing-site
Laryngectomy
Larynx
Last Resort
Lateral
Latinate affix
Lax
Layered morphology
LCS
Left Branch Condition
Left downward monotonicity
Left monotone decreasing
Left monotone increasing
Left upward monotonicity
Left-dislocation
Leftness condition
Lenition
Level
Level I/II affix
Level Ordering Hypothesis
Lexeme
Lexical ambiguity
Lexical array
Lexical categories
Lexical category
Lexical category prominence
Lexical component
Lexical Conceptual Structure
Lexical decomposition
Lexical insertion
Lexical integrity
Lexical Morphology
Lexical Phonology
Lexical relatedness
Lexical semantics
Lexical subarray
Lexical transformation
Lexicalist Hypothesis
Lexicalization
Lexicon
LF
LF model
Liaison
Liar's paradox
License
Licensing
Light verb
Linear Predictive Coding
Liquid
Listeme
Listing
Live on property
Loan word
Local binding
Local economy
Localism
Locality
Locus
Locutionary act
Logic
Logical constant
Logical equivalence
Logical form
Logical implication
Logical semantics
Logical subject
Logical truth
Logogen model
Logophoricity
Look-ahead
Look-ahead model
Loop
Low
LPC
M-command
M-selection
Macroparadigm
Major categories
Major category
Malapropism
Mapping Principle
Masking
Mass noun
Mass term
Material equivalence
Material implication
Max (A)
Maximal chain
Maximal onset principle
McGurk effect
Meaning
Meaning opposition
Meaning postulate
Meaning theories
Meaning theory
Meaning-is-use-theory
Melody tier
Mentalistic theory
Merge
Merge-over-Move
Meta language
Meta-variable
Metathesis
Metrical phonology
Metrical tree
MGC
Minimal domain
Minimal free form
Minimal Governing Category
Minimal Link Condition
Minimal residue
Minimal sign
Minimalist program
Minimality
MIT-Icelandic
MLC
Modal
Modal logic
Modal verb
Model
Model-theoretic semantics
Modifier
Modularity
Modulation
Monotone decreasing
Monotone increasing
Monotonicity
Montague Grammar
Mood
Mora
Morph
Morpheme
Morpheme Structure Condition
Morpheme-based morphology
Morphemic Tier Hypothesis
Morpholexical rule
Morphological component
Morphological object
Morphological Transformation Prohibition
Motor theory
Move alpha
Movement
Multiple questions
Multiple wh-fronting
Mutation
Mutative
N-bar deletion
N-place predicate
Name
Narrow focus
Narrow scope
Narrowband
Nasal
Nasalization
Nasalized
Natural Morphology
Necessary truth
Negation
Negative polarity item
Negative strong
Neutralization
No Vacuous Application Principle
No-Crossing Constraint
No-Phrase Constraint
Node
Noise
Nominalization
Non-argument
Non-argument position
Non-configurational language
Non-factive predicate
Non-linear morphology
Non-maximal chain
Nonconcatenative morphology
Nonreferential noun phrase
Nonrestrictive relative clause
Nonspecific reading
Noun
Noun Incorporation
NP-movement
NP-trace
Nucleus
Null affixation
Null Case
Null Morpheme
Number
Number-theoretic tree
Numeration
Nyquist frequency
Object
Object control verb
Object language
Oblique case
Oblique context
Obstruent
Occlusive
Octave
Oddity discrimination
Of-insertion
Off-glide
Off-line
On-glide
On-line
One-affix-one-rule hypothesis
One-place predicate
Onset
Opacity Condition
Opaque context
Open Quotient
Open syllable
Open time
Operator
Operator binding
Oral
Ordering hypothesis
Organ of Corti
Oscillogram
Overgeneration
Overlapping reference
Overt syntax
Overtone singing
Overtones
P-marker
Palatal
Palatalization
Palate
Paradigm
Parafix
Parallel morphology
Parameter
Parasitic gap
Parasynthesis
PARR
Partial suppletion
Participle
Particle
Partitive case
Passive
Passivization
Path
Path Containment Condition
Patient
Pattern Playback
Peak
Percolation
Perfective
Performative
Performative hypothesis
Periodic
Peripherality condition
Perlocutionary act
Permanent lexicon
Persevatory assimilation
Persistence
Perturbation
Perturbation theory
PF
Pharyngeal
Pharynx
Phase
Phase locking
Phi-features
Phonation
Phoneme
Phoneme restoration
Phonetogram
Phonetograph
Phonological feature
Phrasal affix
Phrase
Phrase marker
Phrase structure
Phrase structure rules
Picture noun
Pied piping
Pied-piped
Pitch
Plane
Plane Conflation
Plosive
Pluralia tantum
Pole
Polyfunctionality
Polysemy
Polysyllabic
Polysynthetic language
Portmanteau
Positive
Positive polarity item
Positive strong
Potential lexicon
Power spectrum
Pragmatic theory
Precedence
Predicate
Predicate constant
Predicate logic
Predicate-argument structure
Predication
Predicative noun phrase
Predicator
Prefix
Preposition Incorporation
Preposition stranding
Prevoicing
Primary compound
Priming
Principles and Parameters framework
PRO
Pro-drop
Process
Process nominal
Proclitic
Procrastinate
Productivity
Progressive aspect
Progressive assimilation
Projection
Projection Principle
Promote
Promotion
Pronominal
Pronoun
Pronoun of laziness
Proper government
Properly governed
Properness
Propositional attitude
Propositional formula
Propositional Island Condition
Propositional letters
Propositional logic
Proprioceptive feedback
Prosody
Pruning
Pseudo-cleft
Pseudo-compound
Pseudo-passive
PSOLA
Psych-movement
Psych-verb
Pulse train
QR
Quantal theory of speech
Quantificational noun phrase
Quantifier
Quantifier Raising
Quantifier-float
Quantisation noise
Quasi-argument
R-colouring
R-expression
Raising to object
Raising to subject
Re-write rules
REA
Reading
Readjustment rule
Reanalysis
Reciprocal
Reconstruction
Recoverability of deletion
Recursion
Redundancy
Redundancy rule
Reduplication
Reference
Reference time
Referential expression
Referential index
Referential noun phrase
Referential opacity
Referential use
Reflexive
Register
Reiterant speech
Relatedness paradox
Relative clause
Relative pronoun
Relativization
Relativized head
Relativized Righthand Head Rule
Remnant
Remnant Extraposition
Remnant Topicalization
Residue
Residue pitch
Restricted quantifier
Restrictive relative clause
Restructuring
Result nominal
Resultative
Resumptive pronoun
Retroflex
Reverberation
Rhotacisation
RHR
Rhyme
Right downward monotonicity
Right Ear Advantage
Right monotonicity
Right Node Raising
Right Roof Constraint
Right upward monotonicity
Righthand Head Rule
Rightward movement
Rigid designator
Rise time
RMS amplitude
Roll-off
Root
Root clause
Root compound
Root modal
Root-and-pattern morphology
Round
Rule feature
Rule of referral
S-bar deletion
S-dominate
S-selection
S-structure
SAMPA
Sandhi
Schwa
Schwa insertion
Scope
Scope ambiguity
Scrambling
Secondary articulation
Segment
Segmentation
Selection
Selectional restrictions
Self-dual
Semantic Coherence
Semantic component
Semantic compositionality
Semantic interpretation
Semantic reference
Semantic representation
Semantic role
Semitone
Semitone scale
Semivowels
Sense
Sentential Subject Constraint
Separation Hypothesis
Shape Component
Shape Condition
Shimmer
Shortest Link
Shortest Move
Shortlist model
Sibilancy
Sibilant
Sieve
Signal-to-noise ratio
Signifiant
Signification
Signifié
Silent interval
Simple determiner
Singula
Sister
Sisterhood Condition
Slit tongue
Sloppy identity
Sluicing
Small Clause
Soft palate
Sole Argument Generalization
Sonagram
Sonorant
Sonority
Sonority hierarchy
Source
Source-filter theory
Speaker's reference
Specific reading
Specificity Condition
Specified Subject Condition
Specifier
Specifier-Head agreement
Spectral envelope
Spectral slope
Spectrogram
Spectrum
Speech act
Speech error
Speech rate
Speech synthesis
Speech time
Speechreading
Spell-out
Spirantisation
Split antecedent
Split-Morphology Hypothesis
Spoonerism
SSC
ST
Staffeiri speech
Stage
Standard theory
State
Steady state
Stem
Stop
Stranding
Stratum
Stray adjunction
Strength
Stress
Stress lowering convention
Stress neutral affix
Stress shifting affixes
Stress subordination principle
Stress-timed
Strict c-command
Strict Cyclicity
Strict subcategorization
Stridency
Strident
Strong crossover
Strong feature
Strong Lexicalist Hypothesis
Strong noun phrase
Strong verb
Structural ambiguity
Structural case
Structure preservation
Structure-building rule
Structure-changing rule
Structure-preserving Constraint
Subcategorization
Subcategorization frame
Subcategorization insertion
Subjacency
Subject
Subject Condition
Subject control verb
Subject Raising
Subject Restriction
Subjunctive
Sublabel
Substitution
Substitution salva veritate
Subtractive morphology
Suffix
Suicidal Greed
Super raising
Superiority
Superiority condition
Superlative
Suppletion
Suprasegmentals
Surface structure
Svarabakthi
Syllabary
Syllabic
Syllabification
Syllable
Syllable weight
Syllable-timed
Syncope
Syncretism
Synonymy
Syntactic atom
Synthesis-by-rules
Synthetic compound
Synthetic truth
T-model
Table of coreference
Tactile feedback
Talking machines
Tap
Tarski's truth definition
Tautology
Tautosyllabic
TC
Telicity
Template
Template morphology
Temporal organisation
Tense
Tensed-S Condition
Terminal node
Terminative aspect
Text-to-Speech
That-trace effect
Thematic relations
Thematic role
Thematic structure
Thematic theory
Thematic tier
Theme
Theme vowel
There-insertion
Theta Criterion
Theta identification
Theta-absorption
Theta-bar position
Theta-government
Theta-grid
Theta-marking
Theta-position
Theta-role
Theta-role assignment
Theta-theory
Third Construction
Though-movement
Threshold
Thyroid
Tier
Tier Conflation
Tilt
Timbre
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
ToBI
ToDI
Tone
Tone height
Tone language
Tone stability
Top-down
Topic
Topic-comment-distinction
Topicalization
Total suppletion
Tough-movement
Trace
TRACE model
Trace theory
Trachea
Tract variables
Transcription
Transfer
Transformation
Transformational rule
Transients
Transition
Transitive verb
Transparent context
Transposition
Tree
Tree of numbers
Tree structure
Trill
Truncation
Truth
Truth condition
Truth functional connective
Truth table
Truth value
TSC
TTS
Two-place predicate
Type logic
Umlaut
Unaccusative verb
Unary connective
Underspecification
Unergative verb
Uniformity Principle
Uniqueness
Unitary Base Hypothesis
Universal quantifier
Universe of discourse
Upward monotonicity
Uvula
Uvular
Vacuous Movement Hypothesis
Vacuous quantification
Vagueness
Valency
Valency-changing operation
Valuation
Variable
Variety
Velar
Velarization
Velum
Vendler classes
Ventricular folds
Venturi effect
Verb cluster
Verb movement
Verb raising
Verb second
Verbal Compound
Verbal noun
Vibrato
Visibility condition
Vocal cords
Vocal folds
Vocal fry
Vocal tract
Vocoder
Voice bar
Voice disorders
Voice Onset Time
Voice quality
Voiced
Voiceless
Voiceprint
Von Kempelen talking machine
VOT
Vowel
Vowel harmony
Vowel quality
Vowel reduction
Vowel space
VP Preposing
VP Raising
VP-adjunction
Wackernagel's law
Wanna-contraction
Weak
Weak crossover
Weak feature
Weak Lexicalist Hypothesis
Weak noun phrase
Weather-verb
Well-Formedness Condition
WFC
WFR
Wh-in-situ
Wh-island
Wh-movement
Wh-phrase
Wh-question
Wh-trace
Whisper triangle
Whispering
Wide scope
Wideband
Window model
Windowing
Wizard of Oz
Word
Word boundary
Word form
Word formation
Word Formation Rule
Word Structure Autonomy Condition
Word Syntax
Word-based morphology
X-bar schema
X-bar theory
Yes-no question
Zero affixation
Zero crossing
Zero morphemes


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