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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:14AM

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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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:14AM

RHR

See “Right-Hand Head Rule.” (morphology)

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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:15AM

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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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:21AM

Rigid Designator

A referring expression that denotes the same entity in all possible worlds. (pragmatics)

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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:21AM

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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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 6:21AM

Round

A feature of a sound where the lips are protruded or rounded. (phonetics)

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Monday, July 29th, 2013 @ 5:39PM

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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