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

Face

The persona that is displayed to others during social interaction. (sociolinguistics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:13PM

Face-Threatening Acts

Speech acts that can threaten positive or negative face. (sociolinguistics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:13PM

Factive Predicate

A predicate whose complement clause is presupposed to be true (semantics, pragmatics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:13PM

Faithfulness Constraints

The constraints that require output forms to be the same as their corresponding input forms. (phonology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:14PM

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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