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Definition

The elimination of contrast between sounds; for example, the formerly distinct vowels in caught and cot now sound the same in many American English dialects. Also called neutralization.

Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes

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+ Differentiation

+ Modern English *

+ Performance Error *

+ Prescriptive Grammar *

+ Mental Grammar *

+ Founder Effect

+ Nonarbitrariness *

+ Linguistic Competence *

+ Linguistic Performance *

+ Sound Symbolism *

+ Constructed Language *

+ Natural Languages *

+ Onomatopoeia *

+ Descriptive Grammar *

+ Design Features Of Language *

+ Transformation

+ Formal Language *

+ Code (Modality) *

+ Gyrus (Plural: Gyri) *

+ Language Acquisition *

+ Neurolinguistics *

+ Psycholinguistics *

+ Temporal Lobe *

+ Occipital Lobe *

+ Parietal Lobe *

+ Corpus Callosum *

+ Visual Cortex *

+ Sylvian Fissure *

+ Auditory Cortex *

+ Motor Cortex *

+ Language Center *

+ Broca's Area *

+ Wernicke's Area *

+ Arcuate Fasciculus *

+ Angular Gyrus *

+ Lateralization *

+ Contralaterality *

+ Dichotic Listening Task *

+ Split Brain Patient *

+ Hemispherectomy *

+ Speech Production *

+ Speech Perception *

+ Lexical Processing *

+ Language Variation *

+ Double Modal *

+ Sociolinguistics *

+ Linguistic Anthropology *

+ Contraction *

+ Traffic Analysis *

+ Language Contact *

+ Historical Linguistics *

+ Corpus Linguistics *

+ Tabular Method *

+ Code (Cryptology) *

+ Communicative Approach *

+ Decipherment *

+ Audiologist *

+ Key Distribution Problem *

+ Monoalphabetic Cipher *

+ One Time Pad *

+ Polyalphabetic Cipher *

+ Shift Cipher *

+ Speech Language Pathologist *

+ Anosognosia *

+ Auditory Vocal Language *

+ Aural Oral Language *

+ Commnication Chain *

+ Forensic Linguistics *

+ Left Hemisphere *

+ Right Hemisphere *

+ Visual Gestural Language *

+ Address Form *

+ African American English *

+ African Diaspora *

+ Age Grading *

+ Cascade Diffusion *

+ Change From Above *

+ Four Part Analogy *

+ Minority Pattern Analogy *

+ Anglicist Hypothesis *

+ Apparent Time Hypothesis *

+ Applied Dialectology *

+ Attention To Speech *

+ Backchanneling *

+ Basilectal Stereotype *

+ Bidialectalism *

+ Camouflaged Form *

+ Canadian Raising *

+ Audience Design *

+ Chain Shifting *

+ Change From Below *

+ Change From Outside *

+ Change From Within *

+ Channel Cues *

+ Communication Network *

+ Completion Task *

+ Conflict Model *

+ Consensus Model *

+ Consonant Cluster *

+ Consonant Cluster Reduction *

+ Contagious Diffusion *

+ Constraint (On Variability) *

+ Content Validity *

+ Contrahierarchical Diffusion *

+ Contrastive Drill *

+ Dialect Leveling *

+ Copula Deletion *

+ Creolist Hypothesis *

+ Critical Age Hypothesis *

+ Cultural Difference Approach *

+ Decreolization *

+ Deficit Approach *

+ Deficit Difference Controversy *

+ Definition By Ostentation *

+ Derivational Morpheme *

+ Dialect Discrimination *

+ Dialect Reader *

+ Dialect Rights *

+ Dialectally Diagnostic *

+ Direct Transfer Model *

+ Discrimination Drill *

+ Divergence Hypothesis *

+ Dominance Approach *

+ Early Adopters *

+ Eavesdropper *

+ Elicitation Frame *

+ Empowering Research *

+ Endangered Dialect *

+ Endonormative Stabilization *

+ Eradicationism *

+ Error Analysis *

+ Existential *

+ Exonormative Stabilization *

+ Eye Dialect *

+ Figurative Extension *

+ First Order Constraint *

+ Formal Standard English *

+ Fossilized Form *

+ Foundation Stage *

+ General American English *

+ General Social Significance *

+ Glottal Stop *

+ Group Exclusive *

+ Gradient Stratification *

+ Fine Stratification *

+ Intervocalic *

+ Grammaticalization *

+ Gravity Model *

+ Group Preferential *

+ Group Reference *

+ Historical Present *

+ Inflectional Morpheme *

+ Informal Standard English *

+ Linguistic Geography *

+ Inherent Variability *

+ Initiative Style Shift *

+ Interruption *

+ Irregular Form *

+ Language Idealogy *

+ Language Sample *

+ Lexicographer *

+ Linguistic Constraint *

+ Linguistic Environment *

+ Linguistic Inferiority Principle *

+ Linguistic Intuitions *

+ Linguistic Marketplace *

+ Linguistic Profiling *

+ Linguistic Rule *

+ Moribund Dialect *

+ Morphosyntactic *

+ Linguistic Variable *

+ Low Back Merger *

+ Meaning Shift *

+ Metalinguistic Task *

+ Mock Language *

+ Multiplex Network *

+ Naturalistic Speech *

+ Negative Concord *

+ Network Standard *

+ Neutralization *

+ Nonstandard *

+ Objective Case *

+ Observer's Paradox *

+ Oppositional Identity *

+ Perceptual Dialectology *

+ Personal Dative *

+ Phonemic Brackets *

+ Phonetic Brackets *

+ Phrase Timing *

+ Postconsonantal *

+ Postvocalic R *

+ Prescriptive Standard English *

+ Primary Dialect Area *

+ Principle Of Debt Incurred *

+ Principle Of Error Correction *

+ Principle Of Linguistic Gratuity *

+ Pronomial Apposition *

+ Rule Extension *

+ Semantic Broadening *

+ Referee Design *

+ Referee Group *

+ Regional Standard English *

+ Regular Form *

+ Regularization *

+ Relative Clause *

+ Relative Pronoun *

+ Secondary Dialect Area *

+ Semantic Derogation *

+ Semantic Narrowing *

+ Short Vowel *

+ Social Dialectology *

+ Social Indicator *

+ Social Marker *

+ Social Network *

+ Social Stereotype *

+ Socially Diagnostic *

+ Socially Prestigious *

+ Socially Stigmatized *

+ Socioeconomic Status *

+ Social Variable *

+ Diachronic Linguistics *

+ Southern Vowel Shift *

+ Speaker Design *

+ Speech Accommodation Theory *

+ Spelling Pronunciation *

+ Statistical Hypercorrection *

+ Structural Hypercorrection *

+ Subjective Case *

+ Substrate Effect *

+ Substrate Hypothesis *

+ Superstandard English *

+ Syllable Timing *

+ Stress Timing *

+ Supra Regional Norm *

+ Symbolic Capital *

+ Task Interference *

+ Tertiary Dialect Area *

+ Transitional Zone *

+ Transparency Principle *

+ Turn Taking *

+ Uniplex Network *

+ Vowel Breaking *

+ Vowel Reduction *

+ Vowel Rotation *

+ Word Medial *

+ Metalanguage *

+ Bilingual Eduation Program *

+ Caretaker Speech *

+ Comparative Linguistics *

+ Connotative Meaning *

+ Downgrading *

+ Early Modern English *

+ Ethnocentricity *

+ Finger Spelling *

+ Generative Grammar *

+ Global English *

+ Globalization *

+ Great Vowel Shift *

+ Grimm's Law *

+ Immersion Program *

+ Indo European *

+ International Phonetic Alphabet *

+ Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis *

+ Transliterate *

+ Maxims Of Conversation *

+ Mean Length Of Utterance (Mlu) *

+ Middle English *

+ Native Speaker *

+ Old English *

+ Perceptual Phonetics *

+ Place Of Articulation *

+ Sapir Whorf Hypothesis *

+ Speech Act Theory *

+ Computational Linguistics *

+ Black English *

+ Absolute Position *

+ Sharp Stratification *

+ Speakerly Text *

+ Applied Linguistics *

+ Illocutionary Force *

+ Frontal Lobe *

+ Vernacular Principle *

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