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Glossary

Glossary

Word Glossary

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There are 17 names in this directory beginning with the letter F.
Family Tree Theory
The Family Tree Theory was formulated by August Schleicher and states that all languages change in systematic and similar ways due to the fact that they are inter-related.

finite verb
A finite verb is inflected to show tense, aspect, or mood and shows agreement in person and number with its subject. English has few examples. ex: Lawrence sleeps on the couch. The verb sleeps is inflected for present tense, third person, and singular.

First Language Acquisition (L1)
The process by which children acquire their native language.

fissure
A fissure is a deep grove or depression in various areas of the brain separates regions, or lobes.

flap (see 'tap')
A flap is a consonant produced when one articulator makes a brief, single contact with another articulator, often involving the movement of one across the other. Distinctions between 'taps' and 'flaps' are generally no longer made.

forensic linguistics
Forensic linguistics is the study of linguistic data (visual, aural, or spoken) with the goal of gathering information to help agencies deal with criminal activity.

form
The structure or representation of any linguistic element, i.e., a phoneme, a morpheme, a phrase, a sentence, etc.

fossilization
 Fossilization is a stage in second language acquisition in which a learner is not able to advance past a certain point in perceiving or producing a structure or pronunciation.  

free morpheme
Free morphemes can stand alone as a unit of meaning. ex: 'man', 'climb', 'lovely'

free variation
Free variation refers to alternation of phonological forms of a word by one speaker that can be interchanged based on social contexts, without altering meaning. ex: [jɛ] 'yeah' [jɛs] 'yes' [ɹut] [ɹawt] 'route'

fricative
This term refers to a manner of articulation whereby the airstream passes through a narrow constriction between articulators creating friction. Several fricatives in English include: /f, v, s, z/

front vowel
A front vowel is produced when the tip/blade of the tongue is positioned towards the front of the oral cavity. ex: /i, e/

function morpheme
A function morpheme gives grammatical information about a word without changing its lexical category. ex: In English the past tense marker '_ed' in 'walked' the plural marker '_s' in 'books' the present progressive marker '_ing' in 'flying'

function word
Function words are used to show a grammatical relationship between words rather than providing lexical meaning. ex: prepositions, conjunctions

functional category
This is a syntactic category headed by functional heads such as prepositions, articles, quantifiers, and auxiliaries. ex: PP, CP, IP, TP, etc.

Fundamental Difference Hypothesis
The Fundamental Difference Hypothesis (Robert Bley-Vroman,1990) states that L1 and L2 are acquired in fundamentally different ways, using different areas of the brain.

fusion
Fusion, also referred to as coalescence is a phonological process in which the features of two linguistic segments merge to create a new sound. ex: French vowels became nasalized when preceding nasal consonants. When the final nasal consonants were lost, nasal vowels became distinct phonemes.

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