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French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms
Index of terms
Language
Entry status
Domain
French
English
French & English.
completed entries
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All domains
Applied Linguistics
Case Grammar
Communication Theory
Conversational Analysis
Dialectology
Discourse Analysis
Ethnography of Communication
Functional Grammar
Functionalism
Functionalism (A. Martinet)
Generative / Transformational Grammar
Glossematics
Government and Binding
Historical Linguistics
Indo-European Historical Linguistics
Literacy / Education
Logic
Modular Approach to Discourse Analysis (Geneva)
Morphology
Narrative Semiotics/Literary Semiotics (Wales)
Neurolinguistics
Oral tradition
Phonology
Pragmatics
Prague School
Psycholinguistics
Rhetorics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Speech-Act Theory
Syntax
Tagmemics
Theory of Enunciative Operations
Typology
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babbling
(e)
babil
(f)
baby(-)talk
(e)
back
1
(e)
back
2
(e)
back translation
(e)
back vowel
(e)
back(-)channel
(e)
back(-)channel cue
(e)
back(-)channel signal
(e)
back-formation
(e)
background
(e)
background information
(e)
backgrounding
(e)
backing
(e)
backlooping
(e)
backness
(e)
back-reference
(e)
backshifting
(e)
bahuvrihi compound
(e)
balance
(e)
bandwidth
(e)
bantou
1
(f)
bantouistique
(f)
bantu
(f)
Bantu
(e)
Bantu language
(e)
Bantu language studies
(e)
bar
1
(e)
bar
2
(e)
baragouin
(f)
baragouiner
(f)
barbarism
(e)
barbarisme
(f)
bare infinitive
(e)
barre
1
(f)
barré
(f)
barre oblique
(f)
barre verticale
(f)
barre
2
(f)
barred
(e)
barred 'i'
(e)
barred 'u'
(e)
baryton
(f)
barytone
(e)
bas
(f)
base
1
(f)
base
1
(e)
base
2
(f)
base
2
(e)
base
3
(f)
base
3
(e)
base adjectivale
(f)
base articulatoire
(f)
base complexe
(f)
base component
(e)
base de données
(f)
base de la langue
(f)
base form
1
(e)
base form
2
(e)
base nominale
(f)
base rule
(e)
base simple
(f)
base verbale
(f)
base
4
(f)
basic
(e)
basic alternant
(e)
basic assumption
(e)
basic form
1
(e)
basic form
2
(e)
basic French
(e)
basic meaning
(e)
basic order
(e)
basic sentence
(e)
basic string
(e)
basic training
(e)
basic vocabulary
(e)
basilect
(e)
basilecte
(f)
basique
(f)
basis
(e)
basis of articulation
(e)
battement
1
(f)
battement rétroflexe
(f)
battement
2
(f)
battu
(f)
battue
(f)
battue labio-dentale
(f)
be (able to be) contracted
(e)
be an exponent of
(e)
be committed to the truth of
(e)
be committed to the truth of the utterance
(e)
be consistent
(e)
be dropped
(e)
be elided
(e)
be neutralized
(e)
bear a tone
(e)
be(come) diphthongized
(e)
become fossilized
(e)
become integrated (in)
(e)
bégaiement
(f)
bégayer
(f)
beginning
(e)
bègue
(f)
behabitive
(e)
behave (as)
(e)
behavior
1
(e)
behavior
2
(e)
behavioral
(e)
behavioreme
(e)
béhaviorème
(f)
behaviorism
(e)
béhavio(u)risme
(f)
belief
(e)
belonging (to)
(e)
bémolisé
(f)
bénéfactif
(f)
benefactive
(e)
bénéficiaire
(f)
beneficiary
(e)
bibliographie
(f)
bibliography
(e)
bi-conditional
(e)
bi-conditionnel
(f)
biculturalism
(e)
biculturalisme
(f)
bidialectalism
(e)
bi-dialectalisme
(f)
bidirectional dependency
(e)
bien formé
(f)
bi-équationnel
(f)
bi-equative
(e)
bifurcation
(f)
bi-intransitif
(f)
bi-intransitive
(e)
Bijection Principle
(e)
bilabial
(f)
bilabial
1
(e)
bilabial
2
(e)
bilabial click
(e)
bilabial consonant
(e)
bilabiale
(f)
bilateral
1
(e)
bilatéral
1
(f)
bilateral
2
(e)
bilatéral
2
(f)
bilateral
3
(e)
bilateral opposition
(e)
bilatérale
(f)
bilatéralement
(f)
bilaterally
(e)
bilingual
1
(e)
bilingual
2
(e)
bilingual dictionary
(e)
bilingual education
(e)
bilingual speaker
(e)
bilingualism
(e)
bilingualité
(f)
bilinguality
(e)
bilingue
(f)
bilinguisme
(f)
bilinguisme additif
(f)
bilinguisme composé
(f)
bilinguisme consécutif
(f)
bilinguisme coordonné
(f)
bilinguisme institutionnel
(f)
bilinguisme négatif
(f)
bilinguisme positif
(f)
bilinguisme simultané
(f)
bilinguisme soustractif
(f)
binaire
(f)
binarisation
(f)
binarism
(e)
binarisme
(f)
binarity
(e)
binarization
(e)
binary
(e)
binary feature
(e)
binary opposition
(e)
binary transformation
(e)
binaural
(e)
binaural hearing
(e)
binauriculaire
(f)
bind
(e)
binding
(e)
binding condition
(e)
binding principle
(e)
Binding Theory
(e)
binôme
(f)
binomial
(e)
bit
(f)
bit
(e)
bi-transitif
(f)
bi-transitive
(e)
bi-transitive verb
(e)
biunique
(e)
biuniqueness
(e)
biunivocité
(f)
biunivoque
(f)
bivalent
(f)
bivalent
(e)
bivalent verb
(e)
blank verse
(e)
blend
(e)
blending
(e)
blèsement
(f)
bléser
(f)
blocage
(f)
block
2
(e)
block capital
(e)
block (the application of) a rule
(e)
blocked
(e)
blocking
(e)
bloqué
1
(f)
bloqué
2
(f)
bloquer
(f)
bloquer (l'application d')une règle
(f)
body
(e)
body language
(e)
bon usage
(f)
bony conduction
(e)
Boolean
(e)
booléen
(f)
borrow (from)
(e)
borrowed (from)
(e)
borrowed word
(e)
borrowing
1
(e)
borrowing
2
(e)
borrowing language
(e)
bottom-up
(e)
bottom-up methodology
(e)
bouche
(f)
bouchon
(f)
bound
(e)
bound anaphora
(e)
bound form
(e)
bound morpheme
(e)
bound stress
(e)
bound variable
(e)
boundary
1
(e)
boundary
2
(e)
boundary
3
(e)
bounded
(e)
bounding node
(e)
Bounding Theory
(e)
boustrophedon
(e)
boustrophédon
(f)
bowdlerized version
(e)
braces
(e)
brachylogie
(f)
brachylogy
(e)
bracketed
(e)
bracketing
1
(e)
bracketing
2
(e)
brackets
(e)
branch
1
(e)
branch
2
(e)
branche
1
(f)
branche
2
(f)
branching
(e)
branching diagram
(e)
branching position
(e)
branching rule
(e)
break down (into)
(e)
break up
(e)
breath
1
(e)
breath
2
(e)
breath group
(e)
breathe
(e)
breathing
(e)
breathing apparatus
(e)
breathstream
(e)
breathy voice
(e)
bref
1
(f)
bref
2
(f)
brévité/brièveté
(f)
brevity
(e)
bridge verb
(e)
brief
(e)
brièveté
(f)
bright vowel
(e)
bring to an end
(e)
broad transcription
(e)
broadening of meaning
(e)
Broca's aphasia
(e)
Broca's area
(e)
bruit
(f)
bruyant
(f)
bruyante
(f)
buccal
(f)
buccal
(e)
buccal cavity
(e)
build-up to the climax
(e)
bundle
(e)
bundle of distinctive features
(e)
bundle of isoglosses
(e)
bundle of phonetic distinctive features
(e)
burr
(e)
Burzio's generalization
(e)
but
1
(f)
but
2
(f)
'by' phrase
(e)
by way of illustration
(e)