These are just the beginnings of a list of definitions of linguistic terms. The list will slowly be expanded as time goes on. Also, please take a moment and fill out our questionnaire . Watch the preceding edition date to see when the list was last updated. A word formed by combining the initial letters of a series of related words.
Allophonic systems can vary from speaker to speaker or more especially from language to language.
The hard ridge located behind the upper front teeth. The improvement or bettering of the meaning of a word through semantic change. The opposite of pejoration . The loss of an initial vowel . See also apocope and syncope .