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Historical Linguistics
The subfield of linguistics that studies language change. (historical)
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:32PM
Hollow Verb Root
A consonantal root in Arabic where the second consonant is a glide. (morphology)
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:33PM
Honorific
A morpheme inserted to show deference for an object or subject by the speaker of a given utterance. (sociolinguistics)
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:33PM
Hypercorrection
Overgeneralizations of a language rule or phenomenon, where unattested pronunciations result, e.g., L2 speakers of Spanish incorrectly palatalizing the [n] in “habnero” as [nj], where no tilda is present on the “n” in the native Spanish. (sociolinguistics)
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