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abstracted adjectives allophonic Ancient Greek articulation articulatory basic Bloomfield called Cambridge changes Chapter Chinese Chomsky classical collocation communication comparative component consonants and vowels context contrast correspondences culture descriptive linguistics dialects different languages distinctive distinguished elements endocentric English example exocentric formal French further German glottal grammatical categories Grimm's Law groups immediate constituent intonation involved J. R. FIRTH Latin lexical linguistic theory London marked meaning morphemes morphological nasal noun paradigms particular person phonemic analysis phonetic phonological phrase pitch plosive plural position pronouns pronunciation prosodies reference relevant represented Romance languages root rules Sanskrit segments semantic semantic functions sentences sequences similar single singular sort speakers specific speech sounds spoken stop consonants stress suffix syllable symbols syntactic relations syntax tagmemes tions tone languages tongue transcription transformational transformational-generative transformational-generative grammar types typological universal grammar utterances verb vocabulary voiced voiceless word classes word forms word order