an observation, made by H. G. Grassman, that when aspirated consonants occurred in successive syllables in Sanskrit and classical Greek, one, usually the first, was unaspirated, becoming a voiced stop in Sanskrit and a voiceless stop in Greek.
any speech sequence consisting of one or more words and preceded and followed by silence
the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language
the borrowing of linguistic forms by one language or dialect from another when both occupy a single geographical or cultural community
the total inventory of morphemes in a given language plus their combinations with additional and derivative morphemes
a collection of maps of a certain area indicating the distribution of various phonological, morphological, lexical, or other features of the dialects of that area
the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as for illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech
