a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language
the act or process of achieving mastery of a language
the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form
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
a structural representation of a sentence in the form of an inverted tree, with each node of the tree labeled according to the phrasal constituent it represents
the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language
