Introduction to Applying Linguistics: Key Concepts

1.                            Phoneme, Phone, Allophone

2.                            Phonetic feature

3.                            Vowel space

4.                            Fundamental frequency and formants

5.                            Sound change, vowel shift

6.                            Morpheme, morph, allomorph

7.                            Derivation vs. inflection

8.                            Function vs. form

9.                            Function word, content word

10.                       Word class: semantic vs. formal definition, syntactic vs. morphological

11.                      Constituency

12.                       Constituency tests: movement, omission, substitution, reduction, co-ordination

13.                      Phrase structure Grammar, Phrase Structure Rules

14.                      Structural ambiguity

15.                      X-bar syntax

16.                      Process, Participant, Circumstance

17.                      Metafunction: Ideational, Interpersonal, Textual

18.                      Logical expressions: connectives, predicates, arguments

19.                      Compositionality, idiomaticity

20.                      Dialect, relation to language

21.                      Dialect continuum

22.                      Isogloss

23.                      Sign: Saussurean, Morris, Peirce

24.                      Semiotic Triangle

25.                      Arbitrariness of the sign

26.                      Discrete nature of language vs. continuous structure of reality

27.                      Prototypes

28.                      Lexical semantic relations

29.                      Semantic features

30.                      Prescriptive vs. Descriptive

31.                      Language families: typology

32.                      Linguistic variable

33.                      Historical reconstruction

34.                      Indo-European

35.                      Old English, Middle English, Modern English