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- American English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United States of America; widely used around the world. [e]
- Anthropological linguistics [r]: The study of language through human genetics and human development. [e]
- British English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United Kingdom; widely used around the world, especially in current and former countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. [e]
- British and American English [r]: A comparison between these two language variants in terms of vocabulary, spelling and pronounciation. [e]
- Canadian English [r]: Any of the dialects of English, standard or not, that are used in Canada. [e]
- Chinese characters [r]: (simplified Chinese 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字) are symbols used to write varieties of Chinese and - in modified form - other languages; world's oldest writing system in continuous use. [e]
- Communication [r]: The set of interactive processes that create shared meaning. [e]
- Constructed language [r]: A language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been devised by an individual or group, instead of having naturally evolved. [e]
- Contact language [r]: any language which is created through contact between two or more existing languages; may occur when people who share no native language need to communicate, or when a language of one group becomes used for wider communication. [e]
- Cranberry word [r]: or 'fossilized term', used in morphology to refer to exceptional compound words not built from productive rules, e.g. cranberry (no such thing as *cran-). [e]
- Democrat Party (phrase) [r]: A phrase used by Republicans in the United States to refer to the opposition Democratic Party, and assumed by many Democrats to be an insulting, disparaging or derogatory term. [e]
- English grammar [r]: The body of rules describing the properties of the English language. [e]
- Esperanto [r]: International language created by Zamenhof in the late 19th century. [e]
- Euro [r]: Official currency of the majority of the European Union member states. [e]
- Hebrew Bible [r]: consists of religious works categorized into the Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). [e]
- History of linguistics [r]: Chronological study which deavours to describe and explain the human faculty of language. [e]
- Human uniqueness [r]: A theoretical concept in evolutionary studies, often used in discussions about the evolution of biological traits found in humans. [e]
- Japanese English [r]: English as used by native speakers of Japanese, either for communicating with non-Japanese speakers or commercial and entertainment purposes. Includes vocabulary and usages not found in the native English-speaking world. [e]
- Kanji [r]: (漢字) Chinese-derived characters used to write some elements of the Japanese language. [e]
- Korean language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Language acquisition [r]: The study of how language comes to users of first and second languages. [e]
- Language planning [r]: In sociolinguistics, the name for any political attempt to change the status of a language in some way or develop new ways of using it, e.g. a government devising laws to promote a language, or scholars producing an official dictionary; the former is status planning (changing the political recognition of a language), the latter corpus planning (changing the way a language is used). [e]
- Lexis [r]: Total bank of words and phrases of a particular language, the artifact of which is known as a lexicon. [e]
- Lingua franca [r]: Any language used for widespread communication between groups who do not share a native language or where native speakers are typically in the minority; name from 'Lingua Franca', a pidgin once used around the Mediterranean. [e]
- Linguistic prescriptivism [r]: The laying down or prescribing of normative rules for the use of a language, or the making of recommendations for effective language usage. [e]
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Martha Young-Scholten [r]: linguist specialising in the phonology and syntax of second language acquisition (SLA); senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. [e]
- Mathematics [r]: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. [e]
- Morphology (linguistics) [r]: The study of word structure; the study of such patterns of word-formation across and within languages, and attempts to explicate formal rules reflective of the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. [e]
- Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
- Noah Webster [r]: (1758-1843) US lexicographer who compiled the American Dictionary of the English Language and wrote a widely used Speller for use in schools in the teaching of reading and writing. [e]
- Noam Chomsky [r]: American linguist, MIT professor and left-wing political activist. [e]
- Noun class [r]: Groups of nouns that a particular language treats similarly, categorized either by gender ("masculine"/"feminine"/"neuter"), animacy, or some other attribute of the thing signified by the noun; or by the noun's morphology; or by other rules, different from language to language. [e]
- Noun [r]: Part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive. [e]
- Pidgin Hawaiian [r]: Extinct pidgin language spoken in Hawaii, which drew most of its vocabulary from Hawaiian; spoken mainly by immigrants to Hawaii, and died out in the early twentieth century. [e]
- Pidgin [r]: A language with no native speakers and few uses, created spontaneously by two or more groups with no common language, using vocabulary and grammar from multiple sources; often a pidgin's grammar is rudimentary, and it has a restricted set of words, but in time they can develop into more complex 'expanded' pidgins with many more functions. [e]
- Plural [r]: Grammatical form that designates, relates to or composed of more than one member, set, or kind of objects specified. [e]
- Programming language [r]: A formal language specification, and programs for translating the formal language to machine code. [e]
- Progressive education [r]: Pedagogical movement rooted in common experience, and democratic and inclusive in outlook. [e]
- Pronoun [r]: A pro-form that substitutes for a noun (or noun phrase) with or without a determiner, such as you and they in English. [e]
- Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e]
- Psychology [r]: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. [e]
- Second language acquisition [r]: Process by which people learn a second language in addition to their native language(s), where the language to be learned is often referred to as the 'target language'. [e]
- Semantics (linguistics) [r]: The subfield of the study of language which focuses on meaning. [e]
- Sign language [r]: A system of language in which expressions are conveyed using body movements rather than the human voice. [e]
- Spoken language [r]: An example of language produced using some of the articulatory organs, e.g. the mouth, vocal folds or lungs, or intended for production by these organs; alternatively, the entire act of communicating verbally - what people mean or intend, the words they use, their accent, intonation and so on. [e]
- Stephen Krashen [r]: emeritus professor of education at the University of Southern California; his research concerns second language acquisition (SLA), bilingual education, literacy and neurolinguistics. [e]
- Syntax (linguistics) [r]: The study of the rules, or 'patterned relations', that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases to form sentences. [e]
- Verb [r]: A word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generally defines action. [e]
- Voicing (linguistics) [r]: Either the physical production of vibration by the vocal folds as part of articulation, or the potential phonological distinction this allows, i.e. the distinct difference between units such as [b] and [p] in many languages. [e]
- Wales [r]: A country of the United Kingdom that historically was considered a principality; population about 3,000,000. [e]
- Welsh language [r]: A Brythonic Celtic language spoken mainly in Wales and Patagonia, Argentina. [e]
- Written language [r]: The communication and representation of a language by means of a writing system. [e]
