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Gullah
A variety spoken by African Americans on the isolated sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Due to its similarity with other varieties in West Africa and the Caribbean, many linguists consider Gullah a creole that may have come from Atlantic pidgins. (sociolingusitics)
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Guttural
A guttural sound is pronounced at or further back than the uvula. This includes uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal sounds. (phonetics)
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Habitual Aspect
An event or state occurs as a habit or custom. (semantics)
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Hamzated Verb Root
A consonantal root in Arabic that contains a glottal stop. (morphology)
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Hapax
A word that only appears in a corpus one time. (morphology)
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Haplology
Simplifying two instances of a sequence to one instance. (historical)
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Head
The actual lexical item that gives a phrase its identity (syntax) or a word its identity. (morphology)
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Head Government
X head governs Y if and only if X is a head, X m-commands Y, and there is no intervening ZP except for a non-finite TP. (syntax)
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Head Marking
The morphosyntactic relation between a head and its dependent is morphologically marked by the head. (typology)
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Head Movement
Movement from one head to another, e.g., V to T movement; T to C movement. (syntax)
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