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Absolute Position
Address Form
Addressee
African American English
African Diaspora
Age Grading
Alice
Analogy
Anglicist Hypothesis
Angular Gyrus
Anosognosia
Apex
Aphasia
Apparent Time Hypothesis
Applied Dialectology
Applied Linguistics
Arcuate Fasciculus
Argot
Aspect
Attention To Speech
Audience Design
Audiologist
Auditor
Auditory Cortex
Auditory Vocal Language
Aural Oral Language
Auxiliary
Avertive
Backchanneling
Bare Root
Base
Basilectal Stereotype
Bidialectalism
Bilingual Eduation Program
Black English
Bob
Broad A
Broca's Area
Camouflaged Form
Canadian Raising
Caretaker Speech
Cascade Diffusion
Case
Central
Cerebral Cortex
Cerebral Hemisphere
Chain Shifting
Change From Above
Change From Below
Change From Outside
Change From Within
Channel Cues
Cipher
Ciphertext
Code (Cryptology)
Code (Modality)
Colloquial
Commnication Chain
Communication Network
Communicative Approach
Comparative Linguistics
Completion Task
Completive
Computational Linguistics
Conflict Model
Connotative Meaning
Consensus Model
Consonant
Consonant Cluster
Consonant Cluster Reduction
Constraint (On Variability)
Constructed Language
Contagious Diffusion
Content Validity
Contraction
Contrahierarchical Diffusion
Contralaterality
Contrastive Drill
Convention
Copula
Copula Deletion
Corpus Callosum
Corpus Linguistics
Creolist Hypothesis
Critical Age Hypothesis
Crossing
Cryptology
Cultural Difference Approach
Dative
Decipherment
Decoding
Decreolization
Decryption
Deficit Approach
Deficit Difference Controversy
Definition By Ostentation
Density
Derivational Morpheme
Descriptive Grammar
Design Features Of Language
Devoicing
Diachronic Linguistics
Dialect Discrimination
Dialect Leveling
Dialect Reader
Dialect Rights
Dialectally Diagnostic
Dichotic Listening Task
Differentiation
Diffusion
Direct Transfer Model
Directive
Discourse
Discrimination Drill
Divergence
Divergence Hypothesis
Dominance Approach
Downgrading
Early Adopters
Early Modern English
Eavesdropper
Ebonics
Elicitation Frame
Empowering Research
Endangered Dialect
Endonormative Stabilization
Eradicationism
Error Analysis
Ethnocentricity
Ethnolect
Etymology
Eve
Existential
Exonormative Stabilization
Expletive
Eye Dialect
Figurative Extension
Fine Stratification
Finger Spelling
First Order Constraint
Fissure
Floor
Focal Area
Focusing
Forensic Linguistics
Form
Formal Language
Formal Standard English
Fossilized Form
Foundation Stage
Founder Effect
Four Part Analogy
Frontal Lobe
G Dropping
Gender
General American English
General Social Significance
Generative Grammar
Generic He
Genre
Global English
Globalization
Glottal Stop
Gradient Stratification
Grammar
Grammaticalization
Gravity Model
Great Vowel Shift
Grimm's Law
Group Exclusive
Group Preferential
Group Reference
Gullah
Gyrus (Plural: Gyri)
Habitual
Hemispherectomy
Heuristic
Historical Linguistics
Historical Present
Homophones
Iconicity
Ideograph
Idiolect
Illocutionary Force
Immersion Program
Indo European
Inflectional Morpheme
Informal Standard English
Inherent Variability
Initiative Style Shift
Innovators
International Phonetic Alphabet
Interruption
Intervocalic
Intrusive
Intuition
Inversion
Irregular Form
Key Distribution Problem
Language
Language Acquisition
Language Center
Language Contact
Language Idealogy
Language Sample
Language Variation
Lateralization
Layering
Left Hemisphere
Leveling
Lexical Processing
Lexicographer
Lexicon
Lexigram
Linguist
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic Competence
Linguistic Constraint
Linguistic Environment
Linguistic Geography
Linguistic Inferiority Principle
Linguistic Intuitions
Linguistic Marketplace
Linguistic Performance
Linguistic Profiling
Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Linguistic Rule
Linguistic Variable
Lobe
Long Vowel
Low Back Merger
Maxims Of Conversation
Mean Length Of Utterance (Mlu)
Meaning Shift
Mental Grammar
Merger
Metalanguage
Metalinguistic Task
Metaphor
Metonymy
Middle English
Minority Pattern Analogy
Mock Language
Modal
Modern English
Monitoring
Monoalphabetic Cipher
Mood
Moribund Dialect
Morphology
Morphosyntactic
Motor Cortex
Multiplex Network
Native Speaker
Natural Languages
Naturalistic Speech
Negative Concord
Network Standard
Neurolinguistics
Neutralization
Noise
Nonarbitrariness
Nonstandard
Objective Case
Observer's Paradox
Occipital Lobe
Old English
One Time Pad
Onomatopoeia
Oppositional Identity
Overhearer
Parietal Lobe
Participle
Perceptual Dialectology
Perceptual Phonetics
Performance Error
Personal Dative
Phonemic Brackets
Phonetic Brackets
Phonetics
Phonics
Phonology
Phrase Timing
Pictograph
Place Of Articulation
Plaintext
Polyalphabetic Cipher
Possessive
Postconsonantal
Postvocalic R
Pragmatics
Preposing
Prescriptive Grammar
Prescriptive Standard English
Primary Dialect Area
Principle Of Debt Incurred
Principle Of Error Correction
Principle Of Linguistic Gratuity
Productive
Pronomial Apposition
Prosody
Psycholinguistics
R Lessness
Recutting
Referee Design
Referee Group
Regional Standard English
Regular Form
Regularization
Relative Clause
Relative Pronoun
Relic Area
Right Hemisphere
Rule Extension
Sapir Whorf Hypothesis
Saturated
Schwa
Secondary Dialect Area
Semantic Broadening
Semantic Derogation
Semantic Narrowing
Semantics
Semiotics
Sharp Stratification
Shift Cipher
Short Vowel
Social Dialectology
Social Indicator
Social Marker
Social Network
Social Stereotype
Social Variable
Socially Diagnostic
Socially Prestigious
Socially Stigmatized
Socioeconomic Status
Sociolect
Sociolinguistics
Sound Symbolism
Southern Vowel Shift
Speaker Design
Speakerly Text
Speech
Speech Accommodation Theory
Speech Act Theory
Speech Language Pathologist
Speech Perception
Speech Production
Spelling Pronunciation
Split Brain Patient
Statistical Hypercorrection
Stopping
Stress Timing
Structural Hypercorrection
Subjective Case
Substrate Effect
Substrate Hypothesis
Superstandard English
Supra Regional Norm
Swamping
Syllable Timing
Sylvian Fissure
Symbolic Capital
Synecdoche
Syntax
Taboo Word
Tabular Method
Task Interference
Temporal Lobe
Tense
Tertiary Dialect Area
Traffic Analysis
Transformation
Transitional Zone
Transliterate
Transparency Principle
Turn Taking
Ungliding
Uniplex Network
Uptalk
Usage
Variants
Vernacular
Vernacular Principle
Visual Cortex
Visual Gestural Language
Vowel
Vowel Breaking
Vowel Reduction
Vowel Rotation
Wave Model
Wernicke's Area
Word Medial
Writing
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Definition: Informal
Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes