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🤌🏽Intro to Linguistics
Key Terms

232 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Linguistics exam

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A

Agglutinative Language
Agglutinative Morphology
Airstream Mechanisms
Alignment Systems
Analytic morphology
Angular gyrus
Aspect
Auditory threshold
August Schleicher
Austronesian Dispersal
Authorship attribution
Auxiliary inversion

B

Babbling stage
Basic syntax
Behaviorist theory
Bernoulli Effect
Bilingualism effects
Breathy voice

C

Case marking
Cognitive constraints
Cognitive Linguistics
Collocation
Communicative competence
Community of practice
Community-based language programs
Complementary distribution
Componential Analysis
Compound bilingualism
Computer-assisted language learning
Consonantal Root System
Constituent Tests
Context-dependence
Context-free grammars
Contextual ambiguity
Contextual cues
Coordinate bilingualism
Creaky Voice
Critical Period Hypothesis
Critical periods in language development
Cross-linguistic influence
Cross-linguistic studies
Cultural transmission

D

Deep Structure
Dependency parsing
Dependency structure
Descriptive approach
Digital dialects
Diglossia
Discourse Analysis
Discourse processing
Distinctive Feature
Dominance relationships
Dual-route model
Duality of patterning

E

Egressive Air
Ergative-absolutive
ERP studies
Error Analysis
Ethnolinguistic identity
Eye-tracking

F

Ferdinand de Saussure
Focus
Forms of Address
Frame semantics
Free variation

G

Generative Phonology
Genetic typology
Glottalic Airstream Mechanism
Gradualist approach
Grammar-Translation Method
Grammatical cases
Grammatical function
Grammatical Gender
Grammatical markers