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Rewriting
When vocabulary insertion takes place at a terminal node; the phonological material replaces and deletes the morphosyntactic features present. (distributed morphology)
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RHR
See “Right-Hand Head Rule.” (morphology)
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Right-Hand Head Rule
The principle that states that the lexical item to the right in a compound dominates the meaning and determines the syntactic category of the compound. (morphology)
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Rigid Designator
A referring expression that denotes the same entity in all possible worlds. (pragmatics)
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Root-and-Pattern Morphology
A stem is composed of a consonantal root, a vocalic melody unit, and a template. These component morphemes of a stem occupy different tiers in autosegmental representation. This morphological system is common in Semitic languages and is also known as non-concatenative morphology. (morphology)
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Round
A feature of a sound where the lips are protruded or rounded. (phonetics)
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Russian
Russian is an SVO language belonging to the Slavic language family that is spoken in Russia and many countries of the former Soviet Union including Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan (typology)
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
The Hypothesis (Elementary Definition). The proposal that language and thought are intricately connected. The structure of one’s language determines or influences the structure of one’s thought. (psycholinguistics)
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Second Critical Period
The time during which a person can easily add another language to her or his repertoire. Lasts from about 6-12. If a person is not exposed to another language during this time, she or he can still learn another language in school or later in life, with hard work and…
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Semantic Case
Semantic case indicates the semantic role that a noun phrase serves in a sentence. (morphology)
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