Linguistics Glossary

With the wonderful exception of Lexicon of Linguistics, few resources for linguistics terms are available on the Internet, and printed dictionaries of terms are incomplete at best. Building this glossary is planned to be an ongoing project. If you have any terms to add to this, please send an e-mail to gogaku@btranslations.com

This glossary is based on phonology course work I am taking at the University of Washington. As I take other courses, I will continue adding terms.

Linguistics is a science, and like physics and chemistry all of the theory is subject to verification and change according to evidence found in language. Even the concepts of seemingly simple concepts such as consonants and vowels are changing. Please keep in mind, then, that the definitions offered here are merely tentative.

A few of the links below are broken as the pages have not been created yet.