LANGUAGE

accordingly acoustic adjective alphabet ancient appears borrowing bound form century class-meaning common consists consonant constituents construction define derived dialects diphthongs distinctive Dutch example exocentric factors finite verb foreign form-class French Germanic languages Gothic grammatical Grammatik Greek guages habit hearer Indo-European languages inflectional inscriptions instance irregular isoglosses Italian Latin lexical linguistic linguistic change linguistic form meaning Menomini Middle English modern morpheme morphologic native neo-grammarian non-distinctive non-syllabic noun occur Old Bulgarian Old English Old High German Old Norse older persons phonemes phonetic change phrase plural position Primitive Germanic Primitive Indo-European pronoun pronunciation replaced resemblance Romance Romance languages Russian sandhi Sanskrit secondary phonemes semantic singular Slavic sound sound-change speak speakers speech speech-community speech-forms speech-sounds spirants spoken standard language stops stress structure substantive substitutes suffix syllable symbols syntactic Tagalog taxemes tion underlying form unstressed unvoiced utterance variants voiced vowel writing written records