a relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items, as a pair of distinctive features, such that one is the absence of the other, as voicelessness and voice, or that one is at the opposite pole from the other, as stridency and mellowness.
the part of a sentence that communicates new information about the topic
to achieve native or native like command of a language
a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?, ?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic
the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form
a word made by putting together parts of other words; motel, brunch, guesstimate
an area whose dialect has exerted influence on the dialects of surrounding areas, as reflected in an geography more or less concentrically surrounding it
