| Middle English | language of Chaucer's writing (beginning of 14th century) |
| Proto-Indo-European | a language family that is the best compromise for a common language |
| accoustic phonetics | the study of the physical and perceived properties of a language |
| conversational codeswitching | speaking languages back and forth |
| descriptive | type of verbs that take what look to be direct objects but don't behave like direct objects |
| philologist perspective | view that studying languages should be concerned with the learning of the backgrounds as well as the usage of language (includes the literature, historical, and cultural contexts) |
| speech community | a group of people who understand and use language similarly |
| tag question | function of this can be: "I'm pretty sure, just checking" |
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