Face
The persona that is displayed to others during social interaction. (sociolinguistics)
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Face-Threatening Acts
Speech acts that can threaten positive or negative face. (sociolinguistics)
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Factive Predicate
A predicate whose complement clause is presupposed to be true (semantics, pragmatics)
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Faithfulness Constraints
The constraints that require output forms to be the same as their corresponding input forms. (phonology)
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Father/Bother Merger
Dialects of English where “father” and “bother” are pronounced with the same vowel ([a:]) have undergone the ‘father/bother merger.’ (sociolinguistics)
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Finite Clause
A clause that is specified for tense. (syntax)
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First Critical Period
The time of first language acquisition from about ages 0-5. If a child is not exposed to language during this time, her or his brain will not develop correctly. (psycholinguistics)
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Fission
The splitting of one morphosyntactic bundle into two. (morphology)
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Focus Construction
A syntactic construction that marks a constituent as new information. (syntax)
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Foge Morphemes
A linking element found in complex Swedish compounds. (morphology)
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