HabitualIn aspect systems, the aspect that expresses that an event is repeated regularly. |
Half-closeSee mid. |
Half-openSee mid. |
Hapax legomenonA form that occurs only once in a corpus (plural: hapax legomena). Comes from the Greek for ‘said once’. |
HaplologyProcess by which a segment or a sequence of segments is deleted if it immediately precedes or follows the same segment or sequence of segments. |
Hard palateThe bony structure that forms the roof of the front part of the mouth. |
HardeningSee fortition. |
HarmonicA multiple of the fundamental frequency; also called overtone. |
HeadA word in a syntactic construction or a morpheme in a morphological one that determines the grammatical function or meaning of the construction as a whole. For example, house is the head of the noun phrase the red house, and read is the head of the word unreadable. |
Heavy syllableSyllables which consist of more than one mora. In stress theory, heavy syllables contain either a long vowel (as the first syllable in bacon) or a short vowel followed by a tautosyllabic consonant (as the first syllable in bunker). Heavy syllables attract stress (cf. light syllables, mora). |