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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:44PM

Islands

Phrases that wh-phrases cannot move out of are called islands. (syntax)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:45PM

Isogloss

A geographic line that shows the division of two distinct linguistic features within a language. (sociolinguistics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:47PM

Japanese

Japanese is an SOV language belonging to the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family. it is spoken primarily inside Japan and by a few small Japanese emigrant populations. Japanese is often referred to as the ‘second most researched language’ in the field of linguistics, next to English. (typology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:47PM

Jargon

Specialized vocabulary of a particular field. (sociolinguistics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:48PM

Juncture

A pause between two phones, real or perceived–sometimes indicated in notation with a “+” symbol. (phonology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:48PM

Juxtaposition

A coordination strategy that connects clauses without an overt morpheme that indicates the grammatical and semantic relations. (syntax)

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 9:25AM

Kanji

Chinese characters used in Japanese. (orthography)

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 9:25AM

Kannada

A language belonging to the Dravidian language family that is spoken in India. (typology)

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 9:25AM

Kavalan

Kavalan is a verb-initial language belonging to the Austronesian language family that is spoken in Taiwan. (typology)

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 9:25AM

Koiné

When two or more closely related or mutually intelligible dialects of roughly equal prestige come in contact, and no outside language presents itself as a lingua franca, a linking language, referred to as a koiné, may arise. (historical)

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