L-Morpheme
A lexical morpheme or root, as opposed to a functional morpheme or “f-morpheme.” (distributed morphology)
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L1
First language. The (or a, in the case of bilingualism or multilingualism) language acquired at an early age. (language acquisition)
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L2
Second language. A language learned later in life, after the second critical period. (language acquisition)
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Late Insertion
The idea that phonological features are not inserted until after the syntax and morphological operations have occurred. (distributed morphology)
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Lexeme
The abstract notion of a word from which surface varieties emerge. This is comparable to the notion of phoneme and morpheme. (Ex. /walk/ [walk], [walks], [walking], [walked]…) (morphology)
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Lexicon
Mental dictionary of a language’s words and word parts. (morphology)
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LF
See “Logical Form.” (syntax)
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Lingua Franca
A mutually-intelligible mode of linguistic communication, used to communicate between groups who have mutually-unintelligible native languages. (sociolinguistics)
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Linguistic Pollution
Where one variety of a language is seen to be entering and changing a native variety in an undesirable way. (sociolinguistics)
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Linking Element
A small and meaningless grammatical like unit that appears between constituents. (morphology)
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