Glossary: morphology and phonology

An articulation in which one articulator is held loosely near another so that the flow of air between them sets them in motion, alternately sucking them together and blowing them apart. In some forms of Scottish English, [ r ] in rip is trilled.

A foot type which involves a strong-weak stress pattern, as in the Engl. word cancel (cf. iamb).

Shortening of a word or stem by removing one end and leaving the rest intact. Cf. also hypocoristics, deletion.

Another word for the eardrum.

The number of lexemes that exhibit a given morphological pattern, e.g. past tenses. Contrast token frequency.

The parametric study of crosslinguistic variation in grammatical structure.