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Person
A grammatical feature that indicates the participant role of a noun phrase. (morphology)
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PF
See “Phonological Form.” (syntax)
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Phoneme
An abstract unit of sound used to contrast words. (pre-generative phonology)
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Phoneme
The psychological perception of a discrete sound, a bundle of speech features such as [±Voice], [±Back], etc. All surface realizations and differences between voice qualities in people producing the same phonemes get filtered and are perceived as a single representation in the mind. (psycholinguistics)
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Phonetics
Study of language sounds themselves. (phonetics)
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Phonological Form
The interface level that represents articulatory and perceptual properties. (syntax)
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Phonology
Study of language sound systems. (phonology)
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Phonotactic Constraints
Restrictions on the combination of sound segments in a language. (phonology)
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Phrase Structure Rules
Generalizations about the contents of different kinds of phrases. (syntax)
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Pidgin
A makeshift language created by people who must communicate, but don’t share a common language. (sociolinguistics)
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