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Words, phrases, and acronyms specific to the study of linguistics.

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Do we have a name for informal & polite language?

The short answer to your question is that no single term exists to describe the "informal [but polite] language that is used across websites over the Internet" nor informal/polite language in general. …
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What does "speech time" mean?

It's related to the concept of time. You know how the present refers to the exact moment we live in? Everything after it (i.e. everything that hasn't happened yet) is called the future and everything …
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A String of graphemes

Homograph. Literally "same spelling". Any two words with different meanings which are spelled the same regardless of their pronunciation (it could be the same or it could be different. It doesn't matt …
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Hearing your name in a noisy crowd: what is this called and how might it work?

I read a paper called Loanword adaptation as first-language phological perception by Boersma and Hamann for a Phonology class project last semester. That introduced me to both the idea of a productive …
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What is a mora?

I recently took a phonology course where Mora Theory was briefly mentioned but we didn't go in depth so your question piqued my interest. I did some light googling and I found this set of lecture note …
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